This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD &local.rel;. For + more general information about the release engineering process, + please see the Release + Engineering section of the web site.
+ +General discussions about the pending release and known issues should be + sent to the public + freebsd-stable mailing list. + MFC + requests should be sent to + re@FreeBSD.org.
+ +| Action | +Expected | +Actual | +Description | +
| Reminder announcement | +16 March 2009 | +-- | +Release Engineers send announcement email to + developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD + &local.rel; release. | +
| Announce the Ports Freeze | +-- | +-- | +Someone from portmgr@ should email + freebsd-ports@ to set a date + for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree. | +
| Code freeze begins | +23 March 2009 | +-- | +After this date, all commits to RELENG_7 must be approved by re@FreeBSD.org. 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 stable@ + and qa@ lists. | +
| Announce doc/ tree slush | +-- | +-- | +Notification of the impending doc/ tree slush should + be sent to doc@. | +
| Ports tree frozen | +-- | +-- | +Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ + tree during the freeze. | +
| doc/ tree slush | +-- | +-- | +Non-essential commits to the en_US.ISO8859-1/ subtree + should be delayed from this point until after the doc/ + tree tagging, to give translation teams time to synchronize + their work. | +
| doc/ tree tagged. | +-- | +-- | +Version number bumps for doc/ subtree. + RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0 tag for doc/. doc/ + slush ends at this time. | +
| BETA1 builds | +30 March 2009 | +-- | +Begin BETA1 builds. | +
| RELENG_7_2 branch | +10 April 2009 | +-- | +The new release branch is created. Update newvers.sh + and release.ent on various branches involved. | +
| RC1 builds | +13 April 2009 | +-- | +Begin RC1 builds. | +
| Ports tree tagged | +-- | +-- | +RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0 tag for ports/. | +
| Ports tree unfrozen | +-- | +-- | +After the ports/ tree is tagged, + the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but + commits made after tagging will not go in &local.rel;-RELEASE. | +
| Final package build starts | +-- | +-- | +The ports cluster and + pointyhat + build final packages. | +
| RC2 builds | +20 April 2009 | +-- | +Begin RC2 builds. | +
| RELEASE builds | +1 May 2009 | +-- | +Begin RELEASE builds. | +
| Announcement | +4 May 2009 | +-- | +Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have + received the bits. | +
| Turn over to the secteam | +TBD | +-- | +RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch is handed over to + the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the + announcement. | +