Releases/Firefox 76

Information and links to do with Firefox 76. This may be useful for Mozilla contributors actively working on the release. It is also a record for future reference.

About the 76 release

• Release owner: Ryan VanderMeulen (:RyanVM)
• Corresponding ESR release: 68.8.0
• Milestones document for the 76 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
• QA: Test Plan - PI requests - [Feature priorities]
• All experiments for 76
• Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

• Working checklists for 76
• ESR 68 checklists
• Blank checklist templates

Process docs

• Off-train releases - Various ways to ship features that aren't in-tree.
• Guidelines for relman: Uplift rules - Release tracking rules
• Security: Sec Triage - Sec-approval -

Dates of 76 releases

76.0a1 Nightly

• First released: 2020-03-09
• Release notes

76 Beta

• 76.0b1 (dev ed and beta channels): 2020-04-07

• 75.0b6 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 2020-04-17
• Release notes - staging - final

76.0 Release

• 2020-05-05
  • desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/76.0/releasenotes/
  • fennec 68.8: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.8.0/releasenotes/

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