Releases/Firefox 38.0/BuildNotes

Firefox and Fennec 38.0

• tracking bug

Firefox

Build 1

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It

build 1 cancelled as bug 1142619#c3 had not beet taken care of

Build 2

• (RelEng) Submit to Ship It
• Publish RC to Beta channel
• build 2 rejected at this point

Build 3

• (RelEng) Submit to Ship It
• Publish RC to Beta channel (see below)
• Set up whatsnew page (see below)
• Push to mirrors (see below)
• Apply Throttling (see below)
• Verify throttling
• Publish in Balrog
• Post-release tasks

Publish in Balrog

• pushed before ready, caused AUS outage
• pulled back in Balrog to correct outage
• pushed again after ready, all good

Set up whatsnew page

We need to remove the 'actions' and 'openURL' to remove the whatsnew after updates. Updating the blob doesn't work due to bug 1162874, so Firefox-38.0-build3 was deleted and resubmitted.

Push to mirrors

Also needed to remove rule for release-cdntest which was showing a whatsnew for these locales: en-US,en-GB,de,pt-BR,id,fr,es-ES,es-MX

Throttling

Also removed the rule for locales on release (as above), since that results in removing the whatsnew page for those locales for the short time before the push to 38.0 is done.

EME free repack

The DRM blog post was pointing to

 http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/candidates/38.0-candidates/build2/partner-repacks/EME-free

which is build2, and not a CDN. Copied files into 38.0 releases dir

# ffxbld@stage
cd /pub/mozilla.org/firefox
rsync -av candidates/38.0-candidates/build3/partner-repacks/EME-free/win32/ releases/38.0/win32-EME-free/

Requested blog be changed to

 http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/38.0/win32-EME-free/

Fennec

Checklist

• (RelMan) Ship the l10n milestone
• (RelMan) Submit to Ship It
• Push to mirrors
• Post-release tasks