Releases/Firefox 71

Information and links to do with Firefox 71. This may be useful for Mozilla contributors actively working on the release. It is also a record for future reference.

About the 71 release

• Release owner: Pascal Chevrel (:pascal)
• Corresponding ESR release: 68.3.0
• Tracking document for the 71 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
• Test Plan: Details of testing from QA.
• All shield studies for 71
• Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

• ESR 68 checklists
• Blank checklist templates

Dates of 71 releases

71.0a1 Nightly

• First released: Sept 2, 2019
• Release notes

71 Beta

• 71.0b1 dev ed release on aurora channel: Oct 15, 2019
• 71.0b3 Beta release on beta channel: Oct 21, 2019
• 71.0b8 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 2019
• Release notes draft - staging - final

72.0 Release

• Dec 2, 2019
  • desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/
  • fennec 68.3: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.3/releasenotes/

Queries

• Pascal's page of relman queries: https://pascalc.net/rm_queries/
• Mission Control crash dashboard: https://metrics.mozilla.com/~sguha/mz/missioncontrol/ex1/mc2/beta.html
• Mission Control daily snapshots: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F9mHl1o3nocVbLXTz7x2KdmNiUpIRDJgN5TN2MmbtFA/edit?pli=1#gid=274778338
• 71 tracking:+ https://mzl.la/32IzksE
• 71 tracking:? https://mzl.la/371ZHwd
• 71 burndown:
• Affected in 71, P1:
• 71 features :
• Fixed in 71 cycle:
• relnote:? to check for issues nominated
• Relnote 71+:
• Unassigned tracking 71: https://mzl.la/2pTqBG3
• Beta simulation tracking
• Beta uplift requests for Firefox:
• esr68 uplift requests for Fennec: