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

  <tr>
    <td>Reminder announcement</td>
    <td>TBD</td>
    <td>15&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Release Engineers send announcement email to
      developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD
      &local.rel; release.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>Announce the Ports Freeze</td>
    <td>23&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>23&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Someone from <tt>portmgr@</tt> should email
    <tt>freebsd-ports@</tt> to set a date
    for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>Code freeze begins</td>
    <td>18&nbsp;June&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>19&nbsp;June&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>After this date, all commits to HEAD 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 developers, as well as <tt>stable@</tt>
      and <tt>qa@</tt> lists.</td>
  </tr>

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    <td>Announce <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
    <td>TBD</td>
    <td>19&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Notification of the impending <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush should
      be sent to <tt>doc@</tt>.</td>
  </tr>

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  <tr>
    <td>Ports tree frozen</td>
    <td>30&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>30&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Only approved commits will be permitted to the <tt>ports/</tt>
      tree during the freeze.</td>
  </tr>

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    <td><tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
    <td>25&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>25&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;2007</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>

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  <tr>
    <td><tt>doc/</tt> tree tagged.</td>
    <td>5&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>5&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</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><tt>RELENG_7</tt> branch</td>
    <td>--</td>
    <td>11&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>The new major version branch is created. Update <tt>newvers.sh</tt>
      and <tt>release.ent</tt> on various branches involved.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>BETA1</tt> builds</td>
    <td>17&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>19&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Begin BETA1 builds.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>BETA2</tt> builds</td>
    <td>31&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>31&nbsp;Oct&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Begin BETA2 builds.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>BETA3</tt> builds</td>
    <td>14&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>16&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Begin BETA3 builds.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>BETA4</tt> builds</td>
    <td>28&nbsp;Nov&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>2&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Begin BETA4 builds.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>RELENG_7_0</tt> branch</td>
    <td>12&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>22&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>The new release branch is created. Update <tt>newvers.sh</tt>
      and <tt>release.ent</tt> on various branches involved.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>RC1</tt> builds</td>
    <td>12&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>22&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>Begin RC1 builds.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>RC2</tt> builds</td>
    <td>28&nbsp;Jan&nbsp;2008</td>
    <td>7&nbsp;Feb&nbsp;2008</td>
    <td>Begin RC2 builds.</td>
  </tr>

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  <tr>
    <td>Ports tree tagged</td>
    <td>14&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>11&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td><tt>RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0</tt> tag for <tt>ports/</tt>.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>Ports tree unfrozen</td>
    <td>14&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>11&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</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>14&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>12&nbsp;Dec&nbsp;2007</td>
    <td>The ports cluster and
      <a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org">pointyhat</a>
      build final packages.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td><tt>RELEASE</tt> builds</td>
    <td>11&nbsp;Feb&nbsp;2008</td>
    <td>23&nbsp;Feb&nbsp;2008</td>
    <td>Begin RELEASE builds.</td>
  </tr>

  <tr>
    <td>Announcement</td>
    <td>26&nbsp;Feb&nbsp;2008</td>
    <td>27&nbsp;Feb&nbsp;2008</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>TBD</td>
    <td>5&nbsp;Mar&nbsp;2008</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="approvals.html">FreeBSD &local.rel; Code Freeze Commit Approval List.</a></li>
  <li><a href="&base;/releng/index.html">FreeBSD Release Engineering website.</a></li>
</ul>

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