Releases/Firefox 70

Information and links to do with Firefox 70. This may be useful for Mozilla contributors actively working on the release. It is also a record for future reference.

About the 70 release

• Release owner: Liz Henry (:lizzard)
• Corresponding ESR release: 68.2.0
• Milestones document for the 70 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
• Test Plan: Details of testing from QA.
• Working notes - Informal working notes and a list of useful dashboards for release managers.
• * All shield studies for 70
• Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

• Working checklists for 70
• ESR 68 checklists
• Blank checklist templates
• Skyline page with bug queries - Internal Skyline planning

Dates of 70 releases

70.0a1 Nightly

• First released: (Planned for 8 July 2019)
• Release notes

70 Beta

• 70.0b1 dev ed release on aurora channel: 27 Aug 2019
• 70.0b3 Beta release on beta channel: 3 Sep 2019
• 70.0b8 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 20 Sept 2019
• Release notes draft - staging - final

70.0 Release

• 22 Oct 2019
  • desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/
  • fennec 68.2: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.2/releasenotes/

70.0.1 Release

• 31 Oct 2019
  • Desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/70.0.1/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
• 70 tracking:+ https://mzl.la/30jW0Oo
• 70 tracking:? https://mzl.la/2XUCsTd (total tracked during cycle: )
• 70 burndown: https://mzl.la/2MR5mhX
• Affected in 70, P1: https://mzl.la/2ZVuK96
• 70 features : https://mzl.la/2XWx9CE
• Fixed in 70 cycle: https://mzl.la/2XAoZAs (This will be a big query)
• relnote:? to check for issues nominated
• Relnote 70: https://mzl.la/2ZiG1PO
• Unassigned tracking 70: https://mzl.la/2PYIU9d
• Beta simulation tracking
• Beta uplift requests for Firefox: 345. https://mzl.la/2UXmUKq
• skyline related: 64 https://mzl.la/2ptFZZi
• total uplifts during RC week: 7. https://mzl.la/2VMrNGz
• skyline related RC week: 1. https://mzl.la/32mhSu0
• esr68 uplift requests for Fennec:
• Waiting to land on m-b: https://mzl.la/2NhQBVy (this is out of date during RC week; use m-r instead)
• Waiting to land on m-r: https://mzl.la/2IWJVsp