<div dir="ltr"><div>Hello, the Nightly version bump to 80 was completed successfully today and the soft freeze is now lifted.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Ryan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 11:18 AM 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">With Firefox 78 now in the RC phase, we are nearing the end of the Nightly 79<br>cycle.<br><br>In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and<br>to ensure that we can roll out Beta 79 to a wider audience with confidence<br>next week, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from Thursday<br>June 25 until after the version bump to 80 on June 29. This also means<br>that feature work targeting 79 should be complete and ready to ride the<br>trains as soon as possible.<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<br>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<br>that code behind NIGHTLY_BUILD or RELEASE_OR_BETA ifdefs can lead to<br>unexpected CI results<br>- Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in the Nightly<br>cycle<br>- Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge<br>readiness<br><br>Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Ryan & the Release Management team</div>
</blockquote></div>