Hi everyone!
Here is my status report for July 2024.
I worked almost exclusively on the ESR transition also this month.
I reviewed the rebased patchset more deeply to find potential runtime
and logic errors caused by upstream changes or similar problems [0].
For example, upstream worked a lot on search engines, and the patch we
had for providing our custom default selection broke as a result, and we
had to re-implement it.
Then, before the 14.0a1 release, I rebased Tor Browser and Mullvad
Browser onto 128.0.
After that, I switched to audits. During every ESR transition, we check
all the bugs Mozilla closed to see if some need particular attention [1].
Until last year, this work was carried out only by a person. This year,
we decided to spread it to all the team and have multiple persons review
each Firefox version. I was assigned Firefox 116 to 119, and so far,
I've reviewed 119+118 and started 117.
Apart from that, I worked on the usual maintenance tasks: I rebased the
13.5 series onto 115.13.0esr for 13.5.1 at the beginning of the month,
and yesterday, I rebased onto 115.14.0esr and 128.1.0esr for 13.5.2 and
14.0a2, respectively.
Finally, I worked on sunsetting Windows 7 support on 14.0 [2], and I
updated our pipeline to fetch Firefox's translations after they were
moved to GitHub [3], as this blocked 13.5.1.
Cheers,
Pier
[0]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42616
[1]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser/-/issues/42757
[2]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4…
[3]
https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/applications/tor-browser-build/-/issues/4…
