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 74 release

• Release owner: Liz Henry (:lizzard)
• Corresponding ESR release: 68.6.0
• Milestones document for the 74 cycle timeline from Nightly to release.
• QA: Test Plan - PI requests - Feature priorities
• * All experiments for 74
• Postmortem notes, 2 weeks after the release.

Release checklists

• Working checklists for 74
• 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 74 releases

74.0a1 Nightly

• First released: (Planned for 6 Jan 2020)
• Release notes

74 Beta

• 74.0b1 (dev ed and beta channels): 11 Feb 2020

• 74.0b5 End of EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER: 2020 (Double check this timing)
• 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
• 74 tracking:?
• 74 tracking:+
• 74: fixed in 74 cycle