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<div id="contentwrap"><h1>FreeBSD 7.0 Release Process</h1>
<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD 7.0. For
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Engineering</a> section of the web site.</p>
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<h1>Schedule</h1>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Action</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Expected</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Actual</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Description</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Reminder announcement</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">TBD</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineers send announcement email to
developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD
7.0 release.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announce the Ports Freeze</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">23 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">23 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Someone from <tt>portmgr@</tt> should email
<tt>freebsd-ports@</tt> to set a date
for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Code freeze begins</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">18 June 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">19 June 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">After this date, all commits to HEAD must be approved by <a href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">re@FreeBSD.org</a>. Certain highly
active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for
routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails
should be sent to the developers, as well as <tt>stable@</tt>
and <tt>qa@</tt> lists.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announce <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">TBD</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">19 Nov 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Notification of the impending <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush should
be sent to <tt>doc@</tt>.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ports tree frozen</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">30 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">30 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Only approved commits will be permitted to the <tt>ports/</tt>
tree during the freeze.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">25 Nov 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">25 Nov 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Non-essential commits to the <tt>en_US.ISO8859-1/</tt> subtree
should be delayed from this point until after the <tt>doc/</tt>
tree tagging, to give translation teams time to synchronize
their work.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>doc/</tt> tree tagged.</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Version number bumps for <tt>doc/</tt> subtree.
<tt>RELEASE_7_0_0</tt> tag for <tt>doc/</tt>. <tt>doc/</tt>
slush ends at this time.</td>
</tr>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELENG_7</tt> branch</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">--</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">11 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The new major version branch is created. Update <tt>newvers.sh</tt>
and <tt>release.ent</tt> on various branches involved.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>BETA1</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">19 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin BETA1 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>BETA2</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">31 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">31 Oct 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin BETA2 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>BETA3</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">14 Nov 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">16 Nov 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin BETA3 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>BETA4</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">28 Nov 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin BETA4 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELENG_7_0</tt> branch</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">12 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">22 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The new release branch is created. Update <tt>newvers.sh</tt>
and <tt>release.ent</tt> on various branches involved.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RC1</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">12 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">22 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin RC1 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RC2</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">28 Jan 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">7 Feb 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin RC2 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ports tree tagged</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">14 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">11 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELEASE_7_0_0</tt> tag for <tt>ports/</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Ports tree unfrozen</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">14 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">11 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">After the <tt>ports/</tt> tree is tagged,
the <tt>ports/</tt> tree will be re-opened for commits, but
commits made after tagging will not go in 7.0-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Final package build starts</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">14 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">12 Dec 2007</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">The ports cluster and
<a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org" shape="rect">pointyhat</a>
build final packages.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1"><tt>RELEASE</tt> builds</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">11 Feb 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">23 Feb 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Begin RELEASE builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announcement</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">26 Feb 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">27 Feb 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have
received the bits.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Turn over to the secteam</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">TBD</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 Mar 2008</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">RELENG_7_0 branch is handed over to
the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the
announcement.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h1>Additional Information</h1>
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