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FreeBSD 10.1 Release Process

Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 10.1. For more information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.

General discussions about the pending release and known issues should be sent to the public freebsd-stable mailing list. MFC requests should be sent to [email protected].

Schedule

Action Expected Actual Description
Initial release schedule announcement - 10�July�2014 Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
Release schedule reminder 10�August�2014 10�August�2014 Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
Code slush begins 22�August�2014 22�August�2014 Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/10 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided.
Code freeze begins 5�September�2014 5�September�2014 Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/10 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc.
BETA1 builds begin 12�September�2014 12�September�2014 First beta test snapshot.
BETA2 builds begin 19�September�2014 19�September�2014 Second beta test snapshot.
BETA3 builds begin 26�September�2014 26�September�2014 Third beta test snapshot.
releng/10.1 branch 3�October�2014 3�October�2014 Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
RC1 builds begin 3�October�2014 3�October�2014 First release candidate.
RC2 builds begin 10�October�2014 10�October�2014 Second release candidate.
RC3 builds begin 17�October�2014 21�October�2014 Third release candidate.
RC4 builds begin�* 29�October�2014 30�October�2014 Fourth release candidate.
RELEASE builds begin 24�October�2014
5�November�2014
12�November�2014
11�November�2014 10.1-RELEASE builds begin.
RELEASE announcement 29�October�2014
10�November�2014
19�November�2014
14�November�2014 10.1-RELEASE press release.
Turn over to the secteam - 26�November�2014 releng/10.1 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.

"*" indicates late additions to the schedule.

Status / TODO

FreeBSD Release Engineering TODO Page

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