Releases/Firefox 74

Information and links to do with Firefox 74. 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: 68.6.0
• Milestones document for the 74 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 74
• Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

• Working checklists for 74
• ESR 68 checklists
• Blank checklist templates

Dates of 74 releases

74.0a1 Nightly

• First released: (Planned for 7 Jan 2020)
• Release notes

70 Beta

• 74.0b1 dev ed release on aurora channel: 2020
• 70.0b4 Beta release on beta channel: 2020
• 70.0b5 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 2020
• Release notes draft - staging - final

74.0 Release

• Mar 2020
  • desktop: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/
  • fennec 68.6: https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/android/68.6/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
• More queries TBD at start of Nightly 74