FreeBSD 9.3 Release Process
Introduction
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.3. 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 should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
Schedule
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 4 March 2014 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | 4 April 2014 | 11 April 2014 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 9 May 2014 | 9 May 2014 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/9 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. |
| Code freeze begins | 23 May 2014 | 23 May 2014 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/9 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| BETA1 builds begin | 30 May 2014 | 30 May 2014 | First beta test snapshot. |
| BETA2 builds begin | 6 June 2014 | 6 June 2014 | Second beta test snapshot. |
| BETA3 builds begin | 13 June 2014 | 13 June 2014 | Third beta test snapshot. |
| releng/9.3 branch | 20 June 2014 | 20 June 2014 | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 20 June 2014 | 20 June 2014 | First release candidate. |
| RC2 builds begin | 27 June 2014 | 27 June 2014 | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin | 4 July 2014 | 4 July 2014 | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE builds begin | 11 July 2014 | 11 July 2014 | 9.3-RELEASE builds begin. |
| RELEASE announcement | 16 July 2014 | 16 July 2014 | 9.3-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | 30 July 2014 | releng/9.3 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |