2025695 - Add a landoscript task to bump the newtab manifest.json minor version after each XPI release

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Release Automation, task)

Description

[Reem Hamoui]

As part of the New Tab trainhop process, we need to automate bumping the minor version number in browser/extensions/newtab/manifest.json after each signed XPI release.

Background: The New Tab extension uses a versioning scheme that tracks Firefox's major version (e.g., 150.0, 150.1, 150.2) and resets to the new major on each Firefox release. Currently, bumping the minor version is a manual step in the trainhop process documented here: https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FPS/pages/1785135275/Performing+a+train-hop#%5BinlineExtension%5DBumping-the-minor-version-number

Proposed approach (based on discussion with ahal):

• Add a post-release treescript task to the newtab XPI release graph
• This task runs as the last step after a signed XPI is built
• It bumps the minor version in browser/extensions/newtab/manifest.json and lands the change directly in central
• No manual trigger or Pulse integration needed — the version in-tree will always be one ahead of the latest release

Example: After releasing 150.1, the task automatically bumps the file to 150.2.

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

I probably said treescript, but I think this is in landoscript these days... but same idea.

To complete this bug we'll want to create a new kind similar to:
https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/source/taskcluster/kinds/release-version-bump/kind.yml

We'll need to ensure the task only runs as part of the newtab addon ship graphs that get triggered by shipit.

We'll also need to update this list and re-deploy landoscript:
https://github.com/mozilla-releng/scriptworker-scripts/blob/e19949e25f0bbc95b9601e8e174bad63dd75d3d3/landoscript/src/landoscript/actions/version_bump.py#L21

There may be other changes needed in landoscript, I'm not sure.

I'll leave the needinfo on jlorenzo up to help find an owner. If we're unable to prioritize atm and someone from newtab wants to take a crack at this, I'm happy to help mentor.

Comment 2

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Hey there! I'm taking it. Reem, is there any hard deadline to meet?

Comment 3

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/scriptworker-scripts] Bug 2025695 - landoscript: add extension_manifest_version_bump action (#1413)

Comment 4

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/fxci-config] Bug 2025695 - xpi-manifest: add lando support for extension_manifest_version_bump (#912)

Comment 5

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/k8s-autoscale] Bug 2025695 - relengworker: add xpi lando autoscaling (#264)

Comment 6

[Reem Hamoui]

Thanks Johan! No hard deadline, but would be great to have whenever :)

Comment 7

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Thanks for looking at this jlorenzo! One thing I'll note is that it looks like the script bumps the patch number of the version, but we're hoping that this script will bump the minor version number.

So 150.0.0 would become 150.1.0. Is that possible?

Comment 8

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/k8s-autoscale] Bug 2025695 - relengworker: add xpi-1-lando and xpi-3-lando autoscaling (#266)

Comment 9

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/JohanLorenzo
https://github.com/mozilla-releng/fxci-config/commit/443bee29794129a9f9a2631b346109be7877b40b
[main] xpi-manifest: add lando support for extension_manifest_version_bump (bug 2025695)

Comment 10

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

(In reply to Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) from comment #7)

Thanks for looking at this jlorenzo! One thing I'll note is that it looks like the script bumps the patch number of the version, but we're hoping that this script will bump the minor version number.

So 150.0.0 would become 150.1.0. Is that possible?

Oops! Thanks for catching that. Fixed:

• https://github.com/mozilla-releng/scriptworker-scripts/pull/1413/changes#diff-6bac2540f7c7becf1527bc5d95b292e42c919c1a9a97695966e450bef3b42f6aR41
• https://github.com/mozilla-releng/scriptworker-scripts/pull/1413/changes#diff-a648da21ad0135a820cc5896d0e12da0b05d74fe5c397857ce0d430718ba03efR44

Comment 11

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

cc'ing the webcompat eng folk so that they're aware this is being worked on, in case they're also interested in auto-bumping their minor version number as well.

Comment 12

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

Yes! We are interested! Thanks!

Comment 13

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/fxci-config] Bug 2025695 - xpi-manifest: update lando action scope to version_bump (#933)

Comment 14

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/JohanLorenzo
https://github.com/mozilla-releng/fxci-config/commit/872a9dd6c6a4e2b2fbf42f0cabd0acce739fbb32
[main] Bug 2025695 - xpi-manifest: update lando action scope to version_bump on staging

Comment 15

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [mozilla-services/cloudops-infra] feat(relengworker): add xpi lando worker pool configuration (bug 2025695) (#6835)

Comment 16

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [mozilla-services/cloudops-infra] feat(relengworker): add GITHUB_OAUTH_TOKEN to lando chart secret (bug 2025695) (#6848)

Comment 17

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [mozilla-services/cloudops-infra] feat(relengworker): add xpi lando prod worker configuration (bug 2025695) (#6838)

Comment 18

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

Attachment: [mozilla-extensions/xpi-manifest] Bug 2025695 - taskcluster: automate newtab manifest.json version bump after XPI release (#271)

Comment 19

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/fxci-config] Bug 2025695 - projects: set staging-xpi-manifest default branch to main (#978)

Comment 20

[BMO Github Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla-releng/fxci-config] Bug 2025695 - xpi-manifest: fix production lando action scope to version_bump (#979)

Comment 21

[BMO Github Automation]

Authored by https://github.com/JohanLorenzo
https://github.com/mozilla-releng/fxci-config/commit/776d04b39d2e68c360d43f3b84521313ef484951
[main] Bug 2025695 - xpi-manifest: fix production lando action scope to version_bump

Comment 22

[Johan Lorenzo [:jlorenzo]]

The last piece landed! The next releases of newtab and webcompat are going to automatically bump the version number. I'm marking this bug as fixed but don't hesitate to reopen it if there's anything I missed 🙂