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FreeBSD 10.0 Release Process

Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 10.0. 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

During the head freeze, the Release Engineering Team may create ALPHA snapshots to publish for testing purposes. As the frequency and total number of the ALPHA snapshots will depend on the length of time the head branch is frozen, no official schedule is provided.

Announcements regarding the availability of the ALPHA snapshots will be sent to the freebsd-current and freebsd-snapshots mailing lists.

Action	Expected	Actual	Description
Initial release schedule announcement	-	13 August 2013	Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
Release schedule reminder	19 August 2013	19 August 2013	Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
Code slush begins	24 August 2013	24 August 2013	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	7 September 2013	7 September 2013	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.
KBI freeze begins	21 September 2013	29 September 2013	Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the head branch will require explicit approval. Additionally, there can be no changes to the KBI until head is branched to stable/10.
stable/10 branch	10 October 2013	10 October 2013	Subversion branch created; release engineering continues on this branch.
BETA1 builds begin	12 October 2013	12 October 2013	First beta test snapshot.
BETA2 builds begin	18 October 2013	26 October 2013	Second beta test snapshot.
BETA3 builds begin	-	3 November 2013	Third beta test snapshot.
BETA4 builds begin	24 November 2013	30 November 2013	Fourth beta test snapshot.
releng/10.0 branch	25 October 2013 7 December 2013	7 December 2013	Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
RC1 builds begin	25 October 2013 7 December 2013	7 December 2013	First release candidate.
RC2 builds begin	2 November 2013 14 December 2013	15 December 2013	Second release candidate.
RC3 builds begin	10 November 2013 21 December 2013	23 December 2013	Third release candidate.
RC4 builds begin	31 December 2013	31 December 2013	Fourth release candidate.
RC5 builds begin	8 January 2014	8 January 2014	Fifth release candidate.
RELEASE builds begin	18 November 2013 28 December 2013 7 January 2014 15 January 2014	15 January 2014	10.0-RELEASE build.
RELEASE announcement	24 November 2013 2 January 2014 14 January 2014 20 January 2014	20 January 2014	10.0-RELEASE press release.
Turn over to the secteam	-	-	releng/10.0 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.

Additional Information

• FreeBSD Release Engineering website