<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Fx29 to ship to users on Friday, May 9th with updates completely unthrottled.</div></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div>-e<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Lukas Blakk <<a href="mailto:lsblakk@mozilla.com">lsblakk@mozilla.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Drivers for 29.0.1 Desktop & Mobile non-urgent releases</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">May 5, 2014 at 2:14:52 PM PDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">release-drivers <<a href="mailto:release-drivers@mozilla.org">release-drivers@mozilla.org</a>><br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Now that the weekend has passed and we got more users on Firefox 29, we have feedback about what the potential explosive/high-impact issues for this release could be. While there is so far no indication of a security exploit necessitating a chemspill, we have several small issues that can be resolved in a non-urgent dot release, laid out below. The timing for this release aim to have it signed off and ready to ship to users on Friday, May 9th with updates completely unthrottled.</div><div><br></div><div>Desktop Known Issues:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003707">1003707 – pdf.js print prints a white page</a> - this has a backout option and is the 'driver' of the desktop dot release</div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1001167#h10">1001167 – Session Restore doesn't handle a corrupted sessionstore.js file properly</a> - patch ready, low risk, regression new to 29</div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=907373#c14">907373 – -moz-os-version media query is not working on Windows 8.1</a> - patch ready, low risk, helps users with dark themes on Windows</div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005958#c11">1005958 – Disable seer until new backend is rewritten</a> - patch ready, lower risk workaround for shutdown hangs in bug 966469</div><div><br></div><div>Mobile Known Issues:</div><div><br></div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1005074">1005074 – Re-enable 'Send Tab to Devices' on Beta and Release with a string swap</a> -- has a low risk patch, this is the 'driver' for our non-urgent dot release</div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987867#c22">987867 – JB & KK crash in java.util.ConcurrentModificationException: at java.util.LinkedList$LinkIterator.next(LinkedList.java)</a> - has patch, fixes reproducible crash, verified on Beta</div><div>* <a href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1003897">1003897 – Character Encoding selection broken in Fennec 29</a> - has a verified backout</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Timing:</div><div>* Patches approved and landed today</div><div>* Go to build, this evening once all are landed and tree is green</div><div>* Builds with QA starting late tonight</div><div>* Sign off on or before Friday May 9th, 8am Pacific time</div><div>* Push 29.0.1, unthrottled to the release channel (and to Google Play Store) by 9am Pacific time</div><div>* We have the entire day, Pacific time to continue to watch the Sync Account traffic/load</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you have any questions, concerns, or potential ride-alongs that we are not aware of.</div><div><br></div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Cheers,</div><div>Lukas</div><div>*-*-*-*-*-*</div><div>Release Manager, Mozillian</div><div><a href="https://mozillians.org/u/lsblakk">mozillians.org/lsblakk</a></div><div><br></div></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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