<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello,</div><div><br></div><div>The Nightly version number increase has landed on mozilla-central and the soft freeze is now complete.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ryan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 11:20 PM Ryan VanderMeulen <<a href="mailto:rvandermeulen@mozilla.com">rvandermeulen@mozilla.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">
Hi all,<br>
<br>
With Firefox 75 RC shipping soon, we are nearing the end of the
Nightly 76 cycle.<br>
<br>
In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late
Nightly and to ensure that we can roll out Beta 76 to a wider
audience with confidence, we'd like to ask that any risky changes
be avoided from Thursday April 2nd until after the version bump to 77 on April 6th.<br>
<br>
Some reminders for the soft code freeze period:<br>
<br>
Do:<br>
- Be ready to back out patches that cause crash spikes, new
crashes, severe regressions<br>
- Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers<br>
- Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge
blockers<br>
<br>
Do Not:<br>
- Land a risky patch or a large patch<br>
- Land new features (that affect the current Nightly version) — be
mindful that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs
can lead to unexpected CI results<br>
- Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in the
Nightly cycle<br>
- Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's
merge readiness<br>
<br>
Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns.<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>Ryan & the Release Management team<font color="#888888"><br>
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