Platform/2009-11-10

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.5.5

Firefox 3.0.16 / Firefox 3.5.6

• Code freeze is November 10 at 11:59pm!
• 3.5.5: 35 open blockers ... 27 need 1.9.1 patches
• 3.0.16: 15 open blockers ... 11 need 1.9.0 patches

Firefox 3.6 Beta

• Released on Friday, Oct 30th
• over 250,000 daily users
• beta 2 refresh shipping today:
  • DLL blacklisting patch (bug 524904)
  • syntax changes for CSS gradients (see bug 513395)
  • cycle-collector patch to stop cycle collection instead of crashing (see bug 521750)
  • over 190 other changes on mozilla-1.9.2 since we shipped first beta
• next refresh hoping to come soon with DLL component directory lockdown & whitelist (bug 519357

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate

• proposed code freeze November 18th (1 weeks)
• proposed release November 26th (Happy Thanksgiving)

Blocker Report

See more Firefox 3.6 related blocker queries, or learn about the new status and blocker flags

• Release Blockers (flag: blocking1.9.2 or blocking-firefox3.6)
  • 93 OPEN (-27 w/w)
  • 39 FIXED but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-14 w/w)
  • 52 nominations (+12 w/w)
  • Handy charts: Blocker snapshots, Blocker and Noms trends
• Approvals
  • 115 requests (+9 w/w)
  • 11 approved but not yet fixed on mozilla-1.9.2 (-28 w/w)
  • Charts: Nominations snapshots

Browser / Front End

(Progress reports every weekend on Planet Firefox)

• see our active projects and get involved / propose others
• Namoroka/mozilla-1.9.2 front end development:
  • 21 blockers left, 7 are crashkill, 7 need patches
  • not including crashkill and review-waiting, we're below 10 and will keep it there
  • per tab prioritization for session restore bug 514490 landed
  • windows 7 aero peek per-tab preview is now preffed-off as per bug 525475

Tree Management

• Talos downtime this week to:
  • bug 524169 Enable Talos on Electrolysis
  • bug 506772, bug 524089 Enable V8, Tsvg tests for group opacity
  • bug 523471 Stop running tiger talos on try builds that don't support tiger
  • bug 526026 Update minidump_stackwalker
• Power maintenance: all mobile devices will be off weekend.