1648895 - Firefox Beta 78.0.0 release

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Requests, task)

Description

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Firefox Beta 78.0.0 is ready for release. We will not be making an org.mozilla.fenix update (as that channel will soon be converted into a Nightly).

Firefox Beta 78.0.0 is primarily to revert the branding back to Firefox Beta.
NOT TO BE CONFUSED with the 78.0.1 beta build, which is an early RC candidate build for QA!

Release notes and builds can be found here: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/releases/tag/v78.0.0-beta.1

The Taskcluster index is here: https://firefox-ci-tc.services.mozilla.com/tasks/index/mobile.v2.fenix.fennec-beta.2020.06.26.revision.7e9a115e8fe8c00a0ebc58f0ae614ee652f7c9ba

Following the 78 rollout schedule, we'll be looking to roll out according to the channel consolidation plan: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lG6q7C94xk3ihJKQWTuMeN_lLXpKtg-oC43pj0CwZkw/edit#

June 30: Firefox Beta to 10%
July 1: Firefox Beta to 25%
July 2: Firefox Beta to 100%

and can check in at each stage in this bug once we've checked for crashes.

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We will be following with another Firefox Beta 79.0.0 rollout starting July 2, which will have more features, and will be our Firefox Production release candidate, in bug 1648894.

Comment 1

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

We can start the 78.0.0 (NOT 78.0.1) rollout to 10% now.

Comment 2

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Release: 78.0.0-beta.1

seconds ago: Started rollout at 10.00% across all countries.

Comment 3

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

Ready to go to 25%

Comment 4

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

seconds ago: Changed from 10.00% to 25.00% across all countries.

Comment 5

[Chenxia Liu [:liuche]]

We can bump this to 100% any time!

Comment 6

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

seconds ago: Full rollout.