Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2023-08-01

Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays at 10am and Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Riot #release-drivers for backchannel
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768
• +17207072699,,536097768# US
• Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/agItTmqIu

Attendees

dsmith, telin, RyanVM, dmeehan, dveditz, Aryx, JR Johnson

Schedule Update

• 116
  • Desktop 116.0: 25% rollout, will stop rollout after 24h, 100% on Thursday if no major issue arises
  • 115.1/102.14 ESR: 100% rollout
  • Android Fenix/Focus/Klar: 25% rollout
  • Focus/Klar iOS 116 started a phased rollout
  • Firefox iOS is delayed pending an experiment fix
  • Planned dot release 2023-08-15
    • we plan to have all uplifts in by 2023-08-11
• 117
  • Desktop 117.0b1 live @ 25% rollout, b2 gtb later today
  • Android 117.0b1 build delayed due to Ship-It problems.
    • Will ship today @ 25% based on automated testing completed by QA.
    • Will wait to ship b2 until after the full QA signoff goes out tomorrow.
  • iOS 117.0b1 rolled out to external testers
• 118
  • New nightly cycle started

Release quality metrics (Tuesdays)

• No updates

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.69%

Beta

crash incidence: % (pp), crash rate: ()

Release

crash incidence: 1.01% - for 115.0.3, higher because recent dot release with few telemetry submissions

• [macOS14 under development] Crash in [@ __cxxabiv1::failed_throw | objc_exception_throw | -[__NSDictionaryM setObject:forKey:]]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845813
  • monitored to see if the issue will be resolved in the next macOS development build
  • steps to reproduce not known in general (some people can reproduce the issue reliably)

Mobile Stability

Fenix

• Android 5.0 startup Crash in [@ java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: at kotlinx.coroutines.channels.BufferedChannel.<init>(BufferedChannel.kt:15)]
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1846566

Focus

QA (read-only)

• 116.0, 102.14esr, 115.1esr – Signed off

Nightly

• New features – Currently in planning

Aurora / Dev Edition

Beta

• New features – Beta 117 preliminary testing starts Aug 3rd
• Build validation – 117.0b1 signed off (no new bugs)
• Regression testing
  • Nightly 117 pre-merge regression testing complete – 1 new bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845759 (S3)
  • Beta 117 regression testing (1 of 3) started
  • Beta 117 tier 1 top sites testing started

Mobile

Action items

Feature Status Review

• Firefox 117 Beta
  • Graphics: Fix border-image-slice-fill tests slipped to Fx118 as the work was not fully landed ahead of merge
  • Wide Gamut Color Support: P3 + WebGL slipped to Fx118 as we are taking things slow to ensure we do not break colorspace rendering
• Firefox 118 Nightly
  • Release tracking page will be live by EOD
  • 29 Jira issues already targeting Fx118

SUMO Report

• Nothing concerning thus far.

Roundtable & Special Topics

• ESR channel migration is at 100% rollout (finally!!!)
• QA Holiday 2023-08-15
• don't be alarmed if Win7 crashes increase -- esr crashes are not throttled like windows release crashes

Retrospective (Tues 2wks from GA Release)

• Fx115 retro https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Bh-A5bl2fhKo2f0VKIe1SayBir3R0_di1dLpohWjjMo/edit