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= Silent Update whatsnew  =

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| Feature 
| Status 
| Dev Lead 
| QA Lead 
| Status
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| Silent Update whatsnew 
| {{StatusHealthy|status=Landed in Firefox 8}} 
| Lawrence Mandel 
| Mihaela Velimiroviciu 
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== Summary  ==

* With Silent Update, the What's New page itself is less relevant to the user given we want to be "silent". However, there is a need for Product Marketing/Engagement to communicate to our users on a regular basis and the purpose of this feature page is to define those requirements.
* The server side work is being developed for this release, while the client side work to provide this functionality is available with Firefox 4 and above.


== What will be tested ==

* A test path from the builds on the release channel to 8.0b4 with the special sauce in the snippets (ie actions=silent).
* What we want to check is that
** the update is found and works with all these new attributes being set
** the what's new page isn't shown after restart
* The release builds which can be used to test the updates (4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0, 5.0.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1) can be found [ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/ here ]

== Use case ==

* (If) The update path is available:
** Starting with a release builds: 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0, 5.0.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1
** Use the releasetest channel
** You will end up on 8.0b4 (buildID is 20111019081014; or load about:buildconfig, follow the source link and make sure the take is FIREFOX_8_0b4_RELEASE)


== Reference  ==

*Feature wiki page - [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Silent_Update_whatsnew Link]


== Use Cases to Test  ==

* 1. A new build with other milestone is released and what's new page is suppressed
* 2. A new build with other milestone is released and what's new page is enabled


== Test Cases  ==

* The set of testcases can be found [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjoApZak_SIodDJpTkZqUUpTRFVJMWRfMnNEM1loMkE&hl=en_US#gid=0 here]


== What will not be tested  ==

* The client side functionality as it is available since Firefox 4 
* Updates within same milestone


== Important bugs  ==

* Tracking bug: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=459972 459972]
* Test updates setup:[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697030 697030]
* Dependencies: 
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682805 682805] - Generate snippets using new attributes - ASSIGNED
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=530872 530872] - app.update.url params / update.xml cleanup and addition of a custom string property for apps - RESOLVED FIXED
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=696278 696278] - Update AUS2 code to AUS2_PRODUCTION (support for new attributes) - RESOLVED FIXED


== Sign-off criteria==

* No major/critical bugs open
* Test run coverage: 100%