- Describe the new release scheduling process

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<title>FreeBSD Release Process</title>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><quote>Stable</quote> releases are made from the
-STABLE development branch at approximately 4 month
intervals.</listitem>
-STABLE development branch every 4 months.</listitem>
<listitem>Major new versions (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, etc..) are released
at much longer intervals when the main goals for that release
have been realized.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>3.0 - October 1998</listitem>
<listitem>4.0 - March 2000</listitem>
<listitem>5.0 - January 2003</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
<listitem>Major new versions (6.0, 7.0, etc.) are released
every 18 months.</listitem>
<listitem>In periods of transition, point releases from the
previous branch are still released while the next major
release branch stabilizes. (e.g., 4.8, 4.9, and 4.10 were
released after 5.0)</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</foil>