FreeBSD 10.2 Release Process

Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 10.2. 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 at this time.

Schedule

Action Expected Actual Description Initial release schedule announcement - 26 February 2015 Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. Release schedule reminder 20 May 2015 21 May 2015 Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. Code slush begins 19 June 2015 19 June 2015 Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/10 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. Code freeze begins 3 July 2015 3 July 2015 Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/10 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. BETA1 builds begin 10 July 2015 10 July 2015 First beta test snapshot. BETA2 builds begin 17 July 2015 17 July 2015 Second beta test snapshot. releng/10.2 branch 24 July 2015 24 July 2015 Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. RC1 builds begin 24 July 2015 24 July 2015 First release candidate. stable/10 thaw 26 July 2015 24 July 2015 The code freeze on the stable/10 branch is lifted. RC2 builds begin 31 July 2015 31 July 2015 Second release candidate. RC3 builds begin * 7 August 2015 7 August 2015 Third release candidate. RELEASE builds begin 14 August 2015 12 August 2015 10.2-RELEASE builds begin. RELEASE announcement 17 August 2015 13 August 2015 10.2-RELEASE press release. Turn over to the secteam - 2 September 2015 releng/10.2 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.

"*" indicates "as-needed" items.

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