1832107 - DevTools Release Tasks - Cycle 115

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, task, P1)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Soft Freeze / Merge Date: 2023-06-01 / 2023-06-05 (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• [x] outdated backward compatibility code removed (doc, searchfox)
• [x] outdated telemetry probes removed (bz query)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)
• [x] Update MDN data for the Compatibility panel follow devtools/shared/compatibility/README.md
• [x] Check the browser information in the Compatibility Panel is up to date (example: version number for Firefox Nightly should be 115):
  • Steps: Open the Inspector, then select the Compatibility side panel, and click on Settings to see the list of all browsers

Close to the end of the release

• [x] smoke test for remote debugging against version 114 (doc)
• [x] smoke test for remote debugging against the same version (version 115) (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 114: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/114#webdriver_conformance_marionette.
• [ ] right after the release of Firefox 114, 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 114 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/114#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

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

I tested backward compat for mobile and desktop against nightly and deved, as well as xpc shell tests, so we can check all the backward compat items

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Thanks a lot Julian!

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The PR for the release notes can be found at: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/27120

Comment 4

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The MDN PR hasn't been reviewed yet. I might have to find someone else.

Beside that the WebDriver newsletter has been published:
https://fxdx.dev/firefox-webdriver-newsletter-114/

Comment 5

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

The announcement has been sent as well to the webdriver mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-webdriver/c/K46EJNWeIkY

As such all the work on this bug is done.