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<div id="contentwrap"><h1>FreeBSD 9.1 Release Process</h1>
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<p>This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.1. For more
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Action</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Expected</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Initial release schedule announcement</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">-</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 June 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release schedule reminder</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 June 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">26 June 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Code freeze begins</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">2 July 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 July 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">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.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">BETA1</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">6 July 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 July 2012</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">releng/9.1 branch</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">3 August 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">5 August 2012</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">RC1</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">20 July 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">23 August 2012</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">RC2</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">7 September 2012</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">RC3</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">17 October 2012</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">RELEASE build</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">9 November 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">4 December 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">9.1-RELEASE built.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">RELEASE announcement</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">12 November 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">31 December 2012</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">9.1-RELEASE press release.</td>
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<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">Turn over to the secteam</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">-</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">15 January 2013</td>
<td rowspan="1" colspan="1">releng/9.1 branch is handed over to
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announcement.</td>
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