<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi there,</div><div><br></div><div>Release management and release engineering have changed the dates for the next release cycle's merge day. Firefox 56 will move to mozilla-beta, and Firefox 57 will become Nightly, on August 2 (rather than August 7). You should still be able to check in patches to mozilla-central normally. <br></div><div><br></div><div>For anything that you need to land for 56 beta 1, between August 2 and 7, please request uplift to beta. <br></div><div><br></div><div>We'll still be doing the beta 1 build on Monday, August 7 for release on Tuesday, August 8. <br></div><div><br></div><div>This should give much more time for sheriffs and releng to fix tests and resolve merge related issues. It will limit last minute churn for the last 5 days before the beta release, while still keeping m-i and m-c open. I think it will give us an improved chance of shipping beta 1 on schedule. </div><div><br></div><div>We're also planning on repeating this pattern for the 57 move to beta in September, so 57 will move to mozilla-beta, and 58 to m-c, to become Nightly, on Sept. 20th instead of Sept. 25. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks to Aki for this plan, and to the l10n team, release duty folks, relman, release-drivers, and the comms team for feedback on how to make it work. <br></div><div><br></div><div>If you have questions or other feedback, please let me know. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Liz</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>----<br></div>Liz Henry (:lizzard)<br></div><div>Firefox Release Manager<br></div><a href="mailto:lhenry@mozilla.com" target="_blank">lhenry@mozilla.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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