1810941 - DevTools Release Tasks - Cycle 111

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, task, P1)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Soft Freeze / Merge Date: 2023-02-09 / 2023-02-13 (from the Release Management Calendar)
More details about any of those tasks can be found at: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools/release.html

Anytime during the release:

• [x] outdated backward compatibility code removed (doc, searchfox)
• [x] outdated telemetry probes removed (bz query)
• [x] in devtools-qa bugs, needinfo the triage owner (or the assignee if they are a team member) to test the bug in beta channel (bz query)
• [ ] Update MDN data for the Compatibility panel follow devtools/shared/compatibility/README.md
• [x] Check that the browsers available in the Compatibility Panel settings are up to date (example: version number for Firefox Nightly should be 111)

Close to the end of the release

• [x] smoke test for remote debugging against version 110 (doc)
• [x] smoke test for remote debugging against the same version (version 111) (same doc)
• [x] check xpcshell debugging (doc)

Marionette and BiDi:

• [ ] close to the end of release (~1 week), based on the list of bugs fixed during the release, update Marionette release notes on MDN for 110: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/110#webdriver_conformance_marionette.
• [ ] right after the release of Firefox 110, send a mail to the dev-webdriver mailing list.

For reference: full list of Marionette and BiDi bugs fixed during the release.

Template suggestion for the Marionette email (adjust wording if relevant):

Firefox 110 has just been released, containing updates for our WebDriver (BiDi, Marionette) support.

You can find all the details in the change log for web developers:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/110#webdriver_conformance_webdriver_bidi_marionette

See https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t8pR_lcTkjZjX1ddOf6tyvPY8dtE519Vlu8wXX58x_E for detailed explanations about Marionette tasks, or contact :whimboo / :jdescottes for help

Nice to have:

• [ ] Generate webidl-pure-allowlist.js and webidl-deprecated-list.js (doc)

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Attachment: Bug 1810941 - [devtools] Update browser compat data to 5.2.34.

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e526aa80d504
[devtools] Update browser compat data to 5.2.34. r=jdescottes

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The PR for MDN release notes can be found at: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/24276

Comment 4

[Marian-Vasile Laza]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e526aa80d504

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The release notes for Marionette should hopefully land today. Julian, given that I'm out next week could you please make sure that it lands and that the email to the webdriver mailing list is getting sent out? Thanks!

Comment 6

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] (PTO -> Jan 5th)]

Sure thing, I'll keep the needinfo until this has been done.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The release notes for Marionette and WebDriver BiDi have been sent out last week:
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-webdriver/c/JOfpcReXeyM

All should be done now.