Firefox 38 beta6 to beta8

This beta was harder then usual to release. For the 38.0.5 dev cycle, we decided to merge mozilla-beta into mozilla-release. As this is unusual, we encountered several issues:

  • Some l10n updates had to be run (beta2release_l10n.sh). To help with the diagnostics, we reported bug [1158126](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158126).
  • The automation tool had an expectation that, coming from mozilla-release, the version would be a release ([bug 1158124](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1158124)). We hardcoded a [temporary fix](https://github.com/mozilla/build-tools/commit/f1b46a4304495fc01073d35adf18c4c696fbdec3).

Because it took some time to fix these issues, we haven’t been able to publish beta 7 last week. We decided to skip beta 7 from releasing and start the beta 8 build on Sunday evening. Unfortunately, this didn’t go smoothly either:

  • During the merge, we update some of the configurations. This caused beta 8 build 1 to be built using the release branding. This change was backout. See bug 1158760 for more information.
  • Last but not least, because of the previous issue, we had to do a second build of 38 beta 8. This caused some CDN issue and it took a while to get that resolved. We also reported a bug to simplify this in the future.

Besides that, these two betas are regular. We disabled readling list and reader view (reader view is going to ship into 38.0.5). We took some fixes for EME and MSE.

Finally, we took some stability fixes.

  • 56 changesets
  • 131 files changed
  • 1488 insertions
  • 1911 deletions

ExtensionOccurrences
cpp36
js32
h12
jsm8
java7
ini7
css5
list3
in3
html3
jsx2
idl2
build2
xml1
txt1
sh1
mk1
hgtags1
gyp1
dep1
cc1

ModuleOccurrences
browser35
dom16
toolkit14
media12
mobile10
js10
security7
gfx6
layout5
widget3
testing3
docshell3
services2
netwerk1
mozglue1
modules1

List of changesets:

David KeelerBug 1150114 - Allow PrintableString to match UTF8String in name constraints checking. r=briansmith, a=sledru - a00d0de3202f
Justin DolskeBug 1155191 - Please disable readling list and reader view for 38. r=markh, a=me - 69173cc17556
Kai EngertBug 1156428 - Upgrade Firefox 38 to use NSS 3.18.1, a=dveditz - 8f9c08f19f6a
Patrick BrossetBug 1155172 - Intermittent browser_webconsole_notifications.js. r=past, a=test-only - 52322e98f739
Matt WoodrowBug 1154536 - Disable 4k H264 video for vista since it performs poorly. r=ajones, a=sledru - 650ed1bb5a04
Philipp KewischBug 1153192 - Cannot pass extra arguments to l10n-repack.py. r=gps, a=lmandel - d1e5b60cd47c
Chris PearceBug 1156131 - Use correct DLL on WinVista, 7, and 8 for WMF decoding in gmp-clearkey. r=edwin, a=sledru - e7210d2ce8a9
Chris PearceBug 1156131 - Expand list of WMF DLLs that are whitelisted for use by EME plugins. r=bobowen, a=sledru - 5712fefbace8
Mark HammondBug 1152193 - Ensure sync/readinglist log directory exists. r=rnewman, a=sledru - fc98815acf5f
Ed LeeBug 1156921 - Backout Suggested Tiles (Bug 1120311) from 38.0 [a=sylvestre] - d7ca3b75c842
Ryan VanderMeulenBug 1123563 - Skip test-animated-image-layers.html and test-animated-image-layers-background.html on Android and Linux. a=test-only - 1cd478c3e0b5
Hannes VerschoreBug 1140890 - Make sure the first argument cannot bail in between negative zero removal and creating result in substraction. r=nbp, a=sledru - d55fdde73ac8
Valentin GosuBug 1145812 - Fix assertion with dom.url.encode_decode_hash pref set to true. r=mcmanus, a=sledru - 5f0e381a7afd
Hannes VerschoreBug 1143878 - IonMonkey: Test conversion of MToInt32 for testing congruence. r=jandem, a=sledru - 0b3c5b65610e
Valentin GosuBug 1149913 - Disable Bug 1093611. Set pref dom.url.encode_decode_hash to true. r=honzab, a=sledru - a9be9167d92b
Chris PearceBug 1155432 - Don't flush WMF PDM task queues. r=jya, a=sledru - 0920ace0d8b0
Julian SewardBug 1153173 - Uninitialised value use in AutoJSExceptionReporter::~AutoJSExceptionReporter. r=aklotz, a=sledru - 92fb098ace7a
Jean-Yves AvenardBug 1154683 - Fix potential size overflow. r=kentuckyfriedtakahe, a=sledru - 22f8fa3a9273
Milan SreckovicBug 1133119 - ::Map should fail if the data is null, and add more null pointer checks. r=mattwoodrow, a=sledru - 90d2538212ab
Florian QuèzeBug 1109728 - Intermittent browser_devices_get_user_media.js | popup WebRTC indicator visible - Got false, expected true. r=Gijs, a=test-only - fe8c5e74565f
Florian QuèzeBug 1126107 - Intermittent browser_devices_get_user_media.js | WebRTC indicator hidden - Got true, expected false. r=Gijs, a=test-only - 8d4a0b33d32e
Jim MathiesBug 1100501 - Add StatisticsRecorder initialization to xpcshell. r=georg, a=sledru - 71d1d59db847
Jim MathiesBug 1100501 - Avoid a late shutdown of chromium's StatisticsRecorder. r=georg, a=sledru - 8661ed4cbdb9
Mark BannerBug 1153630 - Allow buttons in the Loop panel to be bigger if required as L10n needs. r=dmose, a=sledru - a6fe316e7571
Milan SreckovicBug 1154003 - More protection for failed surface drawable creation. r=bas, a=sledru - 474ffd404414
Valentin GosuBug 1139831 - End timestamps are before start timestamps. r=baku, a=sledru - 9fe28719e4fd
Mats PalmgrenBug 1152354 - Re-introduce the incremental reflow hack in nsSimplePageSequenceFrame for now, since the regressions are worse than the original problem (Bug 1108104). r=roc, a=sledru - 92a269ca564d
Garvan KeeleyBug 1155237 - Part 1: Remove contextless access to NetworkUtils, causes NPE. r=rnewman, a=sledru - 1ec2ee773b51
Garvan KeeleyBug 1155237 - Part 2: Make upload service non-sticky. r=rnewman, a=sledru - 645fc5aa6a49
Mark BannerBug 1145541. r=mikedeboer, a=sledru - db41e8e267ed
Ryan VanderMeulenBug 1108104 - Fix rebase bustage. a=bustage - df5d106c2607
Ryan VanderMeulenBug 1152354 - Remove no longer needed assertion expectation. a=orange - 50550eca1fa2
JW WangBug 1091155 - Don't check if 'playing' has fired for it depends on how fast decoding is which is not reliable. r=cpearce, a=test-only - 2161d1dc7e2b
Randell JesupBug 1151628 - Re-enable MJPEG in libyuv (especially for getUserMedia). r=glandium, a=sledru - f6448c4cf87f
Randell JesupBug 1152016 - Suppress fprintf(stderr)'s from jpeg in MJPEG decode. r=pkerr, a=sledru - 97d33db56113
Ganesh SahukariBug 1009465 - Set the read-only attribute for temporary downloads on Windows. r=paolo, a=sledru - b7d8d79c1ee5
Tom SchusterBug 1152550 - Make sure that cross-global Iterator can not be broken. r=Waldo, a=sledru - 6b096f9b31d3
Mark FinkleBug 1154960 - Fennec should explicitly block the DOM SiteSpecificUserAgent.js file from packaging. r=nalexander, a=sledru - da1d9ba28360
Richard NewmanBug 1155684 - Part 0: Disable reading list sync in confvars.sh. r=nalexander, a=sledru - 18c8180670c7
Richard NewmanBug 1155684 - Part 1-3: Remove reading list sync integration. r=nalexander, a=sledru - 309ed42a5999
Richard MartiBug 1156913 - Use highlighttext color also for :active menus. r=Gijs, a=sledru - 98086516ce8f
Edwin FloresBug 1156560 - Prefer old CDMs on update if they are in use. r=cpearce, ba=sledru - 7c66212e4c09
Ryan VanderMeulenBacked out changeset 6b096f9b31d3 (Bug 1152550) for bustage. - d20a4e36e508
Ryan VanderMeulenBug 1139591 - Skip browser_timeline_overview-initial-selection-01.js on OSX debug. a=test-only - c0624fb0b902
Ganesh SahukariBug 1022816 - OS.File will now be able to change the readOnly, hidden, and system file attributes on Windows. r=paolo, a=sledru - 8a2c933394da
Blake KaplanBug 1156939 - Don't stash a reference to a CPOW and then spin the event loop. r=mconley, a=test-only - 0efa961d5162
Jonas JenwaldBug 1112947 - Replace a setTimeout with an EventListener to fix an intermittent failure in browser/extensions/pdfjs/test/browser_pdfjs_navigation.js. r=mossop, a=test-only - b29a45098630
Jared WeinBug 1153403 - Don't allow dialogs to resize if they didn't resize in windowed preferences. r=Gijs, a=sledru - e46c9612492a
Matt WoodrowBug 1144257 - Blacklist DXVA for one NVIDIA driver that was causing crashes. r=ajones, a=sledru - 78c6b3ce2ce2
Tom SchusterBug 1152550 - Make sure that cross-global Iterator can not be broken. r=Waldo, a=sledru - 2025aa8c5b1b
travisBug 1154803 - Put our sigaction diversion in __sigaction if it exists. r=glandium, a=sledru - fd5c74651fb2
Neil RashbrookBug 968334 - Allow disabling content retargeting on child docshells only. r=smaug, ba=sledru - 38ff61772a2e
Nicolas B. PierronBug 1149119 - Use Atoms in the template object hold by Baseline. r=jandem, a=abillings - 7298f6e3943e
Nicolas B. PierronBug 1149119 - Do not inline bound functions with non-atomized arguments. r=jandem, a=abillings - 0e69c76cbbe2
Ryan VanderMeulenBacked out changeset b29a45098630 (Bug 1112947) for test bustage. - 8fc6195511e5
Rail AliievBug 1158760 - Wrong branding on the 38 Beta 8, backout d27c9211ebb3. IGNORE BROKEN CHANGESETS CLOSED TREE a=release ba=release - 9d105ed6f35a