1519615 - Widevine Browser CDM revocation schedule

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Audio/Video: Playback, defect)

Description

[Gareth Owens]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Steps to reproduce:

Google have announced a deprecation schedule for versions of the Widevine Browser CDM.
Support for 1.4.9.1029 and 4.10.1185.0 will be revoked on 28th Feb 2019, and the only supported CDM will be a new version which they are releasing on Jan 25th 2019.

Actual results:

As of 28th Feb 2019, I believe all current versions on Firefox will fail to get a DRM license for Widevine protected content

Expected results:

Can Mozilla share which versions of Firefox will get the CDM update available on Jan 25th from Google (and what the release schedule of those is)?

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Yeah, we are aware and working on it. Thanks for the information

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

(In reply to Gareth Owens from comment #0)

Can Mozilla share which versions of Firefox will get the CDM update
available on Jan 25th from Google (and what the release schedule of those
is)?

All supported releases will receive the updated CDM prior to Google's February 28th deadline.

Comment 3

[Gareth Owens]

(In reply to Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM] from comment #2)

(In reply to Gareth Owens from comment #0)

Can Mozilla share which versions of Firefox will get the CDM update
available on Jan 25th from Google (and what the release schedule of those
is)?

All supported releases will receive the updated CDM prior to Google's February 28th deadline.

Hi, thanks for this prompt information. Can I infer from your release cadence https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar that the "supported releases" will likely be Firefox 64 -> and Firefox ESR 60.4 ?

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Yes, mainline and ESR will both be updated.