FreeBSD 9.1 Release Process
Introduction
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.1. 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 re@FreeBSD.org.
Schedule
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 5 June 2012 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | 17 June 2012 | 26 June 2012 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code freeze begins | 2 July 2012 | 3 July 2012 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/9 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| BETA1 | 6 July 2012 | 15 July 2012 | First beta test snapshot. |
| releng/9.1 branch | 3 August 2012 | 5 August 2012 | Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 | 20 July 2012 | 23 August 2012 | First release candidate. |
| RC2 | 7 September 2012 | 9 October 2012 | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 | 17 October 2012 | 3 November 2012 | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE build | 9 November 2012 | 4 December 2012 | 9.1-RELEASE built. |
| RELEASE announcement | 12 November 2012 | 31 December 2012 | 9.1-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | 15 January 2013 | releng/9.1 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |
Status / TODO
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.1TODOAdditional Information
- FreeBSD 9.1 release engineering wiki page, which includes todo lists, scheduling information, binary compatibility information, and more.
- FreeBSD Release Engineering website