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<cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
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<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD &local.rel;. For
more general 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 release engineering process or
quality assurance issues should be sent to the public <a
href="mailto:FreeBSD-qa@FreeBSD.org">freebsd-qa</a> mailing list.
<a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/misc.html#DEFINE-MFC">MFC</a>
requests should be sent to <a
href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">re@FreeBSD.org</a>.</p>
<h1>Schedule</h1>
<table class="tblbasic">
<tr><td>Action</td><td>Expected</td><td>Actual</td><td>Description</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reminder announcement</td>
<td>30 Mar 2004</td>
<td>30 Mar 2004</td>
<td>Release Engineers send announcement email to
<tt>developers@FreeBSD.org</tt> with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD
&local.rel; release.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&local.rel;-BETA Testing Guide published</td>
<td>30 Mar 2004</td>
<td>30 Mar 2004</td>
<td>A <a href="&base;/releases/&local.rel;R/qa.html">testing guide</a>
should be published with information about recent changes and
areas of the system that should be thoroughly tested during the
pre-release/RC period.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Announce the Ports Freeze</td>
<td>03 Apr 2004</td>
<td>03 Apr 2004</td>
<td>Someone from <tt>portmgr@</tt> should email
<tt>freebsd-ports@</tt> and BCC: <tt>developers@</tt> to set a date
for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>&local.rel;-BETA</tt></td>
<td>7 Apr 2004</td>
<td>10 Apr 2004</td>
<td><tt>newvers.sh</tt>, and <tt>release.ent</tt> updated.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Code freeze begins</td>
<td>7 Apr 2004</td>
<td>7 Apr 2004</td>
<td>After this date, all commits to the <tt>RELENG_4</tt> branch
must be approved by <a
href="mailto:re@FreeBSD.org">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 <tt>developers@</tt>, <tt>stable@</tt>
and <tt>qa@</tt> lists.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>RELENG_&local.rel.tag;</tt> branch</td>
<td>20 Apr 2004</td>
<td>21 Apr 2004</td>
<td>The release branch is created.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Unfreeze the tree</td>
<td>20 Apr 2004</td>
<td>22 Apr 2004</td>
<td>Announcement to <tt>developers@</tt> explaining that
commits to <tt>RELENG_4</tt> no longer require approval. Also
note the policy for commits to the <tt>RELENG_&local.rel.tag;</tt>
branch.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>&local.rel;-RC</tt></td>
<td>20 Apr 2004</td>
<td>24 Apr 2004</td>
<td><tt>newvers.sh</tt> and <tt>release.ent</tt> updated.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>First release candidate</td>
<td>21 Apr 2004</td>
<td>22 Apr 2004</td>
<td>The first release candidate for the x86 and Alpha architecture is
released. ISO images should be uploaded to
<tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>. A network install directory should
be uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>. The
<tt>packages/</tt> directory should be a <em>relative</em> symlink,
as described in the releng article. When the builds begin send a note to
<a href="mailto:mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org">mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org</a>
saying a "Normal Release Cycle" is beginning, RC ISOs and install
directories will be coming through the next few weeks.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heads up to <tt>-stable</tt></td>
<td>21 Apr 2004</td>
<td>23 Apr 2004</td>
<td>A message should be sent to <tt>qa@FreeBSD.org</tt> and
<tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt> after the first snapshot is uploaded.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Second release candidate</td>
<td>27 Apr 2004</td>
<td>2 May 2004</td>
<td>Note: the release date of this candidate depends on the user
experience with RC1.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heads up to <tt>-stable</tt></td>
<td>28 Apr 2004</td>
<td>3 May 2004</td>
<td>A message should be sent to <tt>qa@FreeBSD.org</tt> and
<tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt> after the second snapshot is uploaded.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Third release candidate</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>17 May 2004</td>
<td>Note: the release date of this candidate depends on the user
experience with RC2.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Heads up to <tt>-stable</tt></td>
<td>--</td>
<td>17 May 2004</td>
<td>A message should be sent to <tt>qa@FreeBSD.org</tt> and
<tt>stable@FreeBSD.org</tt> after the third snapshot is uploaded.</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>Ports tree frozen</td>
<td>20 Apr 2004</td>
<td>20 Apr 2004</td>
<td>Only approved commits will be permitted to the <tt>ports/</tt>
tree during the freeze.</td>
</tr>
<!-- doceng should tweak these values after we commit it to CVS -->
<tr>
<td>Announce <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>12 Apr 2004</td>
<td>Notification of the impending <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush should
be sent to <tt>doc@</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<!-- doceng should tweak these values after we commit it to CVS -->
<tr>
<td><tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
<td>17 Apr 2004</td>
<td>17 Apr 2004</td>
<td>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>
</tr>
<!-- portmgr should tweak these values after we commit it to CVS -->
<!-- packages should be loaded on ftp-master at least two days before -->
<!-- release bits get loaded to avoid network congestion problems -->
<tr>
<td>Ports tree tagged</td>
<td>27 Apr 2004</td>
<td>28 Apr 2004</td>
<td><tt>RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0</tt> tag for <tt>ports/</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Ports tree unfrozen</td>
<td>27 Apr 2004</td>
<td>28 Apr 2004</td>
<td>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 &local.rel;-RELEASE.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Final package build starts</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>The ports cluster and <a href="http://bento.FreeBSD.org">bento</a>
build final packages.</td>
</tr>
<!-- doceng should tweak these values after we commit it to CVS -->
<tr>
<td><tt>doc/</tt> tree tagged.</td>
<td>24 Apr 2004</td>
<td>24 Apr 2004</td>
<td>Version number bumps for <tt>doc/</tt> subtree.
<tt>RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0</tt> tag for <tt>doc/</tt>. <tt>doc/</tt>
slush ends at this time.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Version numbers bumped.</td>
<td><strike>4 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
22 May 2004</td>
<td>24 May 2004</td>
<td>The files listed <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html#VERSIONBUMP">here</a>
are updated to reflect the fact that this is FreeBSD &local.rel;.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Update man.cgi on the website.</td>
<td><strike>4 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
22 May 2004</td>
<td>25 May 2004</td>
<td>Make sure the &local.rel; manual pages are being displayed by default
for the man->web gateway. Also make sure these man pages are
pointed to by docs.xml.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>src tree tagged.</td>
<td><strike>4 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
22 May 2004</td>
<td>25 May 2004</td>
<td><tt>RELENG_&local.rel.tag;_0_RELEASE</tt> tag for <tt>src/</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Final builds.</td>
<td><strike>4 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
22 May 2004</td>
<td>26 May 2004</td>
<td>Final builds for x86 and Alpha in a pristine environment.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Warn <tt>mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org</tt></td>
<td><strike>4 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
23 May 2004</td>
<td>25 May 2004</td>
<td>Heads up email to <a
href="mailto:mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org">mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org</a>
to give admins time to prepare for the load spike to come. The
site administrators have frequently requested advance notice for
new ISOs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upload to <tt>ftp-master</tt>.</td>
<td><strike>4 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
23 May 2004</td>
<td>26 May 2004</td>
<td>Release uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt> (packages
should have been done before now, otherwise it chokes the mirror
sites and propagation of the release bits takes too long)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Announcement</td>
<td><strike>5 May 2004</strike>
<br/>
24 May 2004</td>
<td>27 May 2004</td>
<td>Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have
received the bits.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turn over to the secteam</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>3 June 2004</td>
<td>RELENG_&local.rel.tag; 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>
<ul>
<li><a href="todo.html">FreeBSD &local.rel; developer todo list.</a></li>
<li><a href="qa.html">FreeBSD &local.rel; Quality Assurance Guide.</a></li>
<li><a href="&base;/releng/index.html">FreeBSD Release Engineering website.</a></li>
<li><a href="&base;/projects/busdma/index.html">FreeBSD busdma driver project page.</a></li>
</ul>
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