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<!ENTITY local.rel "12.1">
<!ENTITY local.branch.stable "stable/12">
<!ENTITY local.branch.releng "releng/12.1">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD &local.rel; Release Process">
<!ENTITY % beta.local.where "IGNORE">
<!ENTITY % beta2.local.where "INCLUDE">
]>

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  <head>
    <title>&title;</title>

    <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
  </head>

  <body class="navinclude.download">

    <h1>Introduction</h1>

    <p>This is the release schedule for &os;&nbsp;&local.rel;.  For
      more information about the release engineering process, please
      see the <a href="&base;/releng/index.html">Release
	Engineering</a> section of the web site.</p>

    <p>General discussions about the pending release and known issues
      should be sent to the public <a
	href="mailto:FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-stable</a>
      mailing list.  <a
	href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/freebsd-glossary.html#mfc-glossary">MFC</a>
      requests should be sent to <a
	href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>

    &beta.local.where;
    &beta2.local.where;

    <h1>Schedule</h1>

    <table class="tblbasic">
      <tr class="heading">
	<td>Action</td>
	<td>Expected</td>
	<td>Actual</td>
	<td>Description</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Initial release schedule announcement</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>14&nbsp;May&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>Release Engineers send announcement email to developers
	  with a rough schedule.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Release schedule reminder</td>
	<td>2&nbsp;August&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>2&nbsp;August&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to
	  developers with updated schedule.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Code slush begins</td>
	<td>6&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>6&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the
	  &local.branch.stable; branch will not require explicit
	  approval, however new features should be avoided.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>&local.branch.releng; branch</td>
	<td>20&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>20&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>Subversion branch created; future release engineering
	  proceeds on this branch.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>BETA1 builds begin</td>
	<td>20&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>20&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>First beta test snapshot.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>BETA2 builds begin</td>
	<td>27&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>27&nbsp;September&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>Second beta test snapshot.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>BETA3 builds begin&nbsp;*</td>
	<td>4&nbsp;October&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>Third beta test snapshot.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>RC1 builds begin</td>
	<td>11&nbsp;October&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>First release candidate.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>RC2 builds begin</td>
	<td>18&nbsp;October&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>Second release candidate.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>RC3 builds begin&nbsp;*</td>
	<td>25&nbsp;October&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>Third release candidate.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>RELEASE builds begin</td>
	<td>1&nbsp;November&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>&local.rel;-RELEASE builds begin.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>RELEASE announcement</td>
	<td>4&nbsp;November&nbsp;2019</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>&local.rel;-RELEASE press release.</td>
      </tr>

      <tr>
	<td>Turn over to the secteam</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>-</td>
	<td>&local.branch.releng; branch is handed over to the
	  &os;&nbsp;Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after
	  the announcement.</td>
      </tr>
    </table>

    <p>&quot;*&quot; indicates &quot;as-needed&quot; items.</p>

    <?ignore
    <h1>Status / TODO</h1>

    <a href="&base;/releases/&local.rel;R/todo.html">&os; Release
      Engineering TODO Page</a>
    ?>

    <h1>Additional Information</h1>

    <ul>
      <li><a href="&base;/releng/index.html">&os;&nbsp;Release
	  Engineering website</a></li>
    </ul>
  </body>
</html>