FreeBSD 10.0 Release Process
Introduction
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 10.0. 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 re@FreeBSD.org.
Schedule
During the head freeze, the Release Engineering Team may create ALPHA snapshots to publish for testing purposes. As the frequency and total number of the ALPHA snapshots will depend on the length of time the head branch is frozen, no official schedule is provided.
Announcements regarding the availability of the ALPHA snapshots will be sent to the freebsd-current and freebsd-snapshots mailing lists.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 13 August 2013 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | 19 August 2013 | 19 August 2013 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 24 August 2013 | 24 August 2013 | 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 | 7 September 2013 | 7 September 2013 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the head branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| KBI freeze begins | 21 September 2013 | 29 September 2013 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the head branch will require explicit approval. Additionally, there can be no changes to the KBI until head is branched to stable/10. |
| stable/10 branch | 10 October 2013 | - | Subversion branch created; release engineering continues on this branch. |
| BETA1 builds begin | 12 October 2013 | - | First beta test snapshot. |
| BETA2 builds begin | 18 October 2013 | - | Second beta test snapshot. |
| releng/10.0 branch | 25 October 2013 | - | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 25 October 2013 | - | First release candidate. |
| RC2 builds begin | 2 November 2013 | - | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin | 10 November 2013 | - | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE builds begin | 18 November 2013 | - | 10.0-RELEASE build. |
| RELEASE announcement | 24 November 2013 | - | 10.0-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | - | releng/10.0 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |