The version bump to 138 has now landed on mozilla-central and the soft freeze period is over.
Thanks, Pascal Chevrel Firefox Release Manager On Monday, February 24, 2025 at 6:45:01 PM UTC+1 Pascal Chevrel wrote: > Hi, > > With Firefox 136 in the Release Candidate phase this week, we are nearing > the end of the Nightly 137 cycle > > In order to avoid invalidating the testing we get out of late Nightly and > to ensure that we can roll out Beta 137 to a wider audience with confidence > this week, we'd like to ask that any risky changes be avoided from > Thursday, February 27 until after the version bump to 138 on March 3. > > Also, please be advised that string freeze for Firefox 137 begins Friday, > February 28. In order to ensure that our localizers have adequate time to > translate strings, please make sure that all string changes have landed by > EOD Friday. > > Some reminders for the soft code freeze period: > > Do: > - Be ready to back out patches that cause crash spikes, new crashes, > severe regressions > - Monitor new regressions and escalate merge blockers > - Support release management by prioritizing fixing of merge blockers > > Do Not: > - Land a risky patch or a large patch > - 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 > - Flip prefs that enable new Features that were untested in the Nightly > cycle > - Plan to kick off new experiments that might impact a feature's merge > readiness > > Please let us know if you have any questions/concerns. > -- > Thanks > Pascal Chevrel > Firefox Release Manager -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "dev-platform@mozilla.org" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dev-platform+unsubscr...@mozilla.org. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/d/msgid/dev-platform/cff5d4b9-20af-4252-a615-e390c27d70b7n%40mozilla.org.
