FreeBSD 11.3 Release Process
Introduction
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 11.3. 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 |
- |
21 March 2019 |
Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
|
Release schedule reminder |
19 April 2019 |
19 April 2019 |
Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
|
Code slush begins |
3 May 2019 |
3 May 2019 |
Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/11 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. |
|
Code freeze begins |
17 May 2019 |
17 May 2019 |
Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/11 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
|
BETA1 builds begin |
24 May 2019 |
24 May 2019 |
First beta test snapshot. |
|
BETA2 builds begin |
31 May 2019 |
31 May 2019 |
Second beta test snapshot. |
|
BETA3 builds begin |
7 June 2019 |
7 June 2019 |
Third beta test snapshot. |
|
releng/11.3 branch |
14 June 2019 |
14 June 2019 |
Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
|
RC1 builds begin |
14 June 2019 |
14 June 2019 |
First release candidate. |
|
stable/11 thaw |
16 June 2019 |
15 June 2019 |
The code freeze on the stable/11 branch is lifted. |
|
RC2 builds begin |
21 June 2019 |
21 June 2019 |
Second release candidate. |
|
RC3 builds begin |
28 June 2019 |
28 June 2019 |
Third release candidate. |
|
RELEASE builds begin |
5 July 2019 |
5 July 2019 |
11.3-RELEASE builds begin. |
|
RELEASE announcement |
9 July 2019 |
9 July 2019 |
11.3-RELEASE press release. |
|
Turn over to the secteam |
- |
24 July 2019 |
releng/11.3 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |
"*" indicates "as-needed" items.
Additional Information
Last modified on: February 6, 2024 by Paul Ivanov