1921754 - DevTools Release Tasks - Cycle 133

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(DevTools :: General, task)

Description

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Soft Freeze / Merge Date: 2024-10-24 / 2024-10-28 (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• ✅ outdated backward compatibility code removed (doc, searchfox)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 code to handle
• ✅ outdated telemetry probes removed (bz query)
  • no probe 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)
  • no bugs

Close to the end of the release (eg 1 week before code freeze)

• ✅ Update MDN data for the Compatibility panel follow devtools/shared/compatibility/README.md
  • Bug 1926504
• ✅ Check the browser information in the Compatibility Panel is up to date (example: version number for Firefox Nightly should be 133):
  • Steps: Open the Inspector, then select the Compatibility side panel, and click on Settings to see the list of all browsers
• ✅ smoke test for remote debugging against version 132 (doc)
• ✅ smoke test for remote debugging against the same version (version 133) (same doc)
• ✅ check xpcshell debugging (doc)

Marionette and BiDi:

• ✅ close to the end of release (approx 1 week), based on the list of bugs fixed during the release, update Marionette release notes on MDN for 132: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/132#webdriver_conformance_marionette.
  • see https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36441
• ✅ right after the release of Firefox 132, send a mail to the dev-webdriver mailing list.
• https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-webdriver/c/DdDPbBbkqvY/m/287GSZFuAwAJ?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer

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

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

Firefox 132 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/132#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 updates

Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2]]

The release notes for WebDriver conformance were merged over on https://github.com/mdn/content/pull/36441.