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<!ENTITY base CDATA "../..">
<!ENTITY email 'freebsd-qa'>
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD$">
<!ENTITY local.rel "8.2">
<!ENTITY local.rel.tag "8_2">
<!ENTITY title "FreeBSD &local.rel; Release Process">
<!ENTITY % navinclude.download "INCLUDE">
]>
<html>
&header;
<h1>Introduction</h1>
<p>This is the release schedule for FreeBSD &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>
<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>08 October 2010</td>
<td>Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a
rough schedule.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Release schedule reminder</td>
<td>-</tD>
<td>Weekly</td>
<td>Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers
with updated schedule.</td>
<tr>
<td>Code freeze begins</td>
<td>28 November 2010</td>
<td>29 November 2010</td>
<td>Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the
stable/8 branch will require explicit approval.
Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of
development, documentation improvements, etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>BETA1</td>
<td>03 December 2010</td>
<td>10 December 2010</td>
<td>First beta test snapshot.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>releng/8.2 branch</td>
<td>15 December 2010</td>
<td>21 December 2010</td>
<td>Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future
release engineering proceeds on this branch.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RC1</td>
<td>17 December 2010</td>
<td>26 December 2010</td>
<td>First release candidate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RC2</td>
<td>07 January 2011</td>
<td>16 January 2011</td>
<td>Second release candidate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RC3</td>
<td>28 January 2011</td>
<td>03 February 2011</td>
<td>Third release candidate.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RELEASE build</td>
<td>21 January 2011</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>8.2-RELEASE built.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>RELEASE announcement</td>
<td>24 January 2011</td>
<td>-</td>
<td>8.2-RELEASE press release.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turn over to the secteam</td>
<td>31 January 2011</td>
<td>-</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>
<p>
<h1>Status / TODO</h1>
<a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.2TODO">http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.2TODO</a>
<p>
<h1>Additional Information</h1>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/8.2TODO/">FreeBSD 8.2 release
engineering wiki page</a>, which includes todo lists, scheduling
information, binary compatibility information, and more.</li>
<li><a href="&base;/releng/index.html">FreeBSD Release Engineering website</a></li>
</ul>
&footer;
</body>
</html>
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