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  <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>19&nbsp;April&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a
	rough schedule.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Release schedule reminder</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>6&nbsp;May&nbsp;2011,<br>15&nbsp;June&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers
	with updated schedule.</td>

    <tr>
      <td>Code freeze begins</td>
      <td>17&nbsp;July&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>18&nbsp;July&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the
	head 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>20&nbsp;July&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>1&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>First beta test snapshot.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>BETA2</td>
      <td>3&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>7&nbsp;September&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Second beta test snapshot.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>releng/9.0 branch</td>
      <td>3&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>10&nbsp;November&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future
        release engineering proceeds on this branch.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>BETA3</td>
      <td>17&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>28&nbsp;September&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Third beta test snapshot.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>RC1</td>
      <td>24&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>22&nbsp;October&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>First release candidate.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>RC2</td>
      <td>31&nbsp;August&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>17&nbsp;November&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Second release candidate.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>RC3</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>8&nbsp;December&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>Third release candidate.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>RELEASE build</td>
      <td>7&nbsp;September&nbsp;2011</td>
      <td>3&nbsp;January&nbsp;2012</td>
      <td>9.0-RELEASE built.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>RELEASE announcement</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>12&nbsp;January&nbsp;2012</td>
      <td>9.0-RELEASE press release.</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
      <td>Turn over to the secteam</td>
      <td>-</td>
      <td>16&nbsp;February&nbsp;2012</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>
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  <p>
  <h1>Status / TODO</h1>
  <a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO">http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO</a>

  <p>
  <h1>Additional Information</h1>

  <ul>
    <li><a href="http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.0TODO/">FreeBSD 9.0 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>

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