FreeBSD 9.0 Release Process

Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.0. 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

Action	Expected	Actual	Description
Initial release schedule announcement	-	19 April 2011	Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
Release schedule reminder	-	6 May 2011, 15 June 2011	Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
Code freeze begins	17 July 2011	18 July 2011	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.
BETA1	20 July 2011	1 August 2011	First beta test snapshot.
BETA2	3 August 2011	7 September 2011	Second beta test snapshot.
releng/9.0 branch	3 August 2011	10 November 2011	Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
BETA3	17 August 2011	28 September 2011	Third beta test snapshot.
RC1	24 August 2011	22 October 2011	First release candidate.
RC2	31 August 2011	17 November 2011	Second release candidate.
RC3	-	8 December 2011	Third release candidate.
RELEASE build	7 September 2011	3 January 2012	9.0-RELEASE built.
RELEASE announcement	-	12 January 2012	9.0-RELEASE press release.
Turn over to the secteam	-	16 February 2012	RELENG_9_0 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/9.0TODO

Additional Information

• FreeBSD 9.0 release engineering wiki page, which includes todo lists, scheduling information, binary compatibility information, and more.
• FreeBSD Release Engineering website

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