1841736 - DevTools Release Tasks - Cycle 117

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, task)

Description

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Soft Freeze / Merge Date: 2023-07-27 / 2023-07-31 (from the Release train page)
More details about any of those tasks can be found at: https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools/release.html

Anytime during the release:

• [✅] outdated backward compatibility code removed (doc, searchfox)
  • no backward compat comment for this release
• [✅] outdated telemetry probes removed (bz query)
  • no probes to remove
• [✅] 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)
  • nothing to handle
• [✅] Update MDN data for the Compatibility panel follow devtools/shared/compatibility/README.md
  • Bug 1845664
• [✅] Check the browser information in the Compatibility Panel is up to date (example: version number for Firefox Nightly should be 117):
  • 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

• [✅] smoke test for remote debugging against version 116 (doc)
• [✅] smoke test for remote debugging against the same version (version 117) (same doc)
• [✅] 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 116: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/116#webdriver_conformance_marionette.
  • https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/28298
• [✅] right after the release of Firefox 116, 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 116 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/116#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)
  • no update detected when running the script

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

The PR for the WebDriver release notes can be found at: https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/28298

Comment 2

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

all tasks completed, closing