FreeBSD 7.2 Release Process

Introduction

This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD 7.2. For more general 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

Action	Expected	Actual	Description
Reminder announcement	16 March 2009	17 March 2009	Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 7.2 release.
Announce the Ports Freeze	3 April 2009	3 April 2009	Someone from portmgr@ should email freebsd-ports@ to set a date for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.
Code freeze begins	23 March 2009	23 March 2009	After this date, all commits to RELENG_7 must be approved by re@FreeBSD.org. Certain highly active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails should be sent to the developers, as well as stable@ and qa@ lists.
Announce doc/ tree slush	--	3 April 2009	Notification of the impending doc/ tree slush should be sent to doc@.
Ports tree frozen	13 April 2009	13 April 2009	Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ tree during the freeze.
doc/ tree slush	10 April 2009	10 April 2009	Non-essential commits to the en_US.ISO8859-1/ subtree should be delayed from this point until after the doc/ tree tagging, to give translation teams time to synchronize their work.
doc/ tree tagged.	17 April 2009	17 April 2009	Version number bumps for doc/ subtree. RELEASE_7_2_0 tag for doc/. doc/ slush ends at this time.
BETA1 builds	30 March 2009	31 March 2009	Begin BETA1 builds.
RELENG_7_2 branch	10 April 2009	15 April 2009	The new release branch is created. Update newvers.sh and release.ent on various branches involved.
RC1 builds	13 April 2009	15 April 2009	Begin RC1 builds.
Ports tree tagged	20 April 2009	21 April 2009	RELEASE_7_2_0 tag for ports/.
Ports tree unfrozen	20 April 2009	21 April 2009	After the ports/ tree is tagged, the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but commits made after tagging will not go in 7.2-RELEASE.
Final package build starts	20 April 2009	21 April 2009	The ports cluster and pointyhat build final packages.
RC2 builds	20 April 2009	23 April 2009	Begin RC2 builds.
RELEASE builds	1 May 2009	1 May 2009	Begin RELEASE builds.
Announcement	4 May 2009	4 May 2009	Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have received the bits.
Turn over to the secteam	TBD	--	RELENG_7_2 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.

Additional Information

• FreeBSD Release Engineering website

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