The first official 20181008 builds are out

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Josa
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The first official 20181008 builds are out

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Previous Nightly Builds thread 20181007

The first official 20181008 NIGHTLY builds are out
.The Official Firefox 63 Beta 13 builds are not yet out

Previous NIGHTLY: 20181007 (Fx 64.0a1)
Previous BETA: 20181005 (Fx 63.0b12)

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Release Notes: NIGHTLY | BETA
Changelogs: NIGHTLY | BETA


Fixed:
  1. NIGHTLY +6
  2. #1492711 [Core:JavaScript: GC]-Nursery shrinking may take multiple cycles before tenure rates are effected [Uns][]
  3. #1495153 [Core:Layout: Form Controls]-Replace the XUL label in <input type=file> with an HTML label [All][]
  4. #1495261 [Core:Web Replay]-Watch for exceptions being thrown while stringifying old exceptions [Uns][]
  5. #1493659 [DevTools:General]-touchscreen: The "meatball" and "chevron" menus break after being double tapped [Win][]
  6. #1471873 [Toolkit:Crash Reporting]-[10.14] After Firefox crashes, crash reporter icon shows in dock when "Show Recent Applications" pref is on [Uns][]
  7. #1479445 [Toolkit:Places]-PlacesUtils.history.update shouldn't require the url to be specified when the guid is (update validation handling) [Uns][[fxsearch]]
  1. Partial Landings/Diagnostic Patches:
  2. #1493616 [Core:Graphics: WebRender]-blob invalidation: Crash in mozilla::layers::DIGroup::PaintItemRange [All][]
  1. Beta 12 -> Beta 13 Changelog +16
  2. #1487167
  3. #1496159
  4. #1495523 [Core:Networking: DNS]-TRR: Disable TRR for a while if we detect poorly performing/crashed nameserver [Uns][[necko-triaged][trr]]
  5. #1409570 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-Regression: Loading site using HTTP2 server push hangs page while loading resources [Uns][[necko-triaged]]
  6. #1489229 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-Crash in mozilla::net::nsPACMan::ConfigureWPAD [Uns][[necko-triaged]]
  7. #1299001 [DevTools:about:debugging]-Intermittent devtools/client/aboutdebugging/test/browser_addons_debug_webextension_popup.js | Test timed out - [Uns][[stockwell fixed]]
  8. #1494582 [DevTools:Font Inspector]-[RTL]Font editor: Toggle switch for "Italic" on RTL builds is spilling out of its designated area [All][]
  9. #1485069 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Add client_id for snippets reporting [Uns][]
  10. #1488462 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Big slowdown happening every x minutes [Uns][[fxperf:p1]]
  11. #1490508 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-CSS mask not applied correctly when recommendation is expanded and url bar text is selected [Uns][]
  12. #1493041 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Topstories feed uninit can remove idle-daily observer before init has a chance to add it [Uns][]
  13. #1495517 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Migrate improvesearch.topSiteSearchShortcuts pref from ActivityStream.jsm to firefox.js [Uns][]
  14. #1494900 [Firefox:Installer]-The uninstall survey is not opened when Firefox was the default browser [Win][]
  15. #1495212 [Firefox:Installer]-after uninstall with 'Tell Mozilla why you uninstalled Firefox' set, Internet Explorer opened but no survey page (Windows 8.1) [Uns][]
  16. #1496094 [Toolkit:Application Update]-updater.exe fails to update when paths contain a reparse point [Uns][]
  17. #1493089 [Toolkit:Video/Audio Controls]-video loop blinking with controls attribute [Uns][]

Nightly 64 fixes since 20180904 (Gecko 63) ~1434
Beta 63 fixes since 20180626 (Gecko 62) ~3212

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Last edited by Josa on October 8th, 2018, 4:55 pm, edited 2 times in total.
mayankleoboy1
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Re: The first official 20181008 builds are not yet out

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why are we using d2d on windows? I switched to skia in gfx.canvas.azure.backends and gfx.content.azure.backends;skia
All the things i tested were faster
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Re: The first official 20181008 builds are not yet out

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mayankleoboy1 wrote:why are we using d2d on windows? I switched to skia in gfx.canvas.azure.backends and gfx.content.azure.backends;skia
All the things i tested were faster
I used to know the answer to this. I don't remember now. I think it had to do with feature set and access to certain things in Windows.

Regardless, it won't matter. When Webrender is default, D2D is gone.
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Re: The first official 20181008 builds are not yet out

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can anyone repro https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497220 ?
edit: clear steps added
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Re: The first official 20181008 builds are not yet out

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Omega X wrote:
mayankleoboy1 wrote:why are we using d2d on windows? I switched to skia in gfx.canvas.azure.backends and gfx.content.azure.backends;skia
All the things i tested were faster
I used to know the answer to this. I don't remember now. I think it had to do with feature set and access to certain things in Windows.

Regardless, it won't matter. When Webrender is default, D2D is gone.
Checked: D2D improves SVG filters a lot by running them on the GPU
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Re: The first official 20181008 builds are out

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