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FreeBSD 13.2 Release Process

Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 13.2. 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 are no longer being accepted.

Schedule

Action Expected Actual Description

Initial release schedule announcement

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19 August 2022

Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.

Release schedule reminder

16 January 2023

16 January 2023

Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.

Code slush begins

27 January 2023

28 January 2023

Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/13 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided.

releng/13.2 branch

10 February 2023

10 February 2023

releng/13.2 branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.

BETA1 builds begin

10 February 2023

10 February 2023

First beta test snapshot.

BETA2 builds begin

17 February 2023

17 February 2023

Second beta test snapshot.

BETA3 builds begin

24 February 2023

24 February 2023

Third beta test snapshot.

RC1 builds begin

3 March 2023

3 March 2023

First release candidate.

RC2 builds begin

10 March 2023

10 March 2023

Second release candidate.

RC3 builds begin

17 March 2023

17 March 2023

Third release candidate.

RC4 builds begin

24 March 2023

24 March 2023

Fourth release candidate.

RC5 builds begin

25 March 2023

25 March 2023

Fifth release candidate.

RC6 builds begin

31 March 2023

31 March 2023

Sixth release candidate.

RELEASE builds begin

7 April 2023

7 April 2023

13.2-RELEASE builds begin.

RELEASE announcement

11 April 2023

11 April 2023

13.2-RELEASE press release.

Turn over to the secteam

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17 April 2023

releng/13.2 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.

Additional Information


Last modified on: February 6, 2024 by Paul Ivanov