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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">
<th>Action</th>
<th>Expected</th>
<th>Actual</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Reminder announcement</td>
<td>8 September 2006</td>
<td>8 September 2006</td>
<td>Release Engineers send announcement email to
developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD
&local.rel; release.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Code freeze begins</td>
<td>10 September 2006</td>
<td>10 September 2006</td>
<td>After this date, all commits to &local.rel.fromtag; 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>
<tr>
<td>Announce the Ports Freeze</td>
- <td>TBD</td>
- <td>--</td>
+ <td>17 September 2006</td>
+ <td>17 September 2006</td>
<td><tt>portmgr@</tt> sends email to
<tt>freebsd-ports@</tt> to announce the dates
for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Begin <tt>&local.rel;-BETA1</tt> builds</td>
<td>16 September 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Begin building the first public test release build for all Tier-1
platforms.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Release <tt>&local.rel;-BETA1</tt></td>
<td>17 September 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>&local.rel;-BETA1 Tier-1 platform images built, released, and
uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Begin <tt>&local.rel;-BETA2</tt> builds</td>
<td>30 September 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Begin building the second public test release build for all Tier-1
platforms.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Release <tt>&local.rel;-BETA2</tt></td>
<td>1 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>&local.rel;-BETA2 Tier-1 platform images built, released, and
uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>.</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>Ports tree frozen</td>
- <td>TBD</td>
+ <td>10 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Only approved commits will be permitted to the <tt>ports/</tt>
tree during the freeze.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>RELENG_&local.rel.tag;</tt> branch</td>
<td>12 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>The release branch is created. Update <tt>newvers.sh</tt>
and <tt>release.ent</tt> on various branches involved.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>src/</tt> unfrozen</td>
<td>14 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Unfreeze <tt>RELENG_6</tt> src. Continue to coordinate significant
check-ins with <tt>re@FreeBSD.org</tt> until the release is final.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Build <tt>&local.rel;-RC1</tt></td>
<td>14 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Begin building the first release candidate build for all Tier-1
platforms.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Release <tt>&local.rel;-RC1</tt></td>
<td>15 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>&local.rel;-RC1 Tier-1 platform images released and
uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>.</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>Ports tree tagged</td>
- <td>TBD</td>
+ <td>17 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td><tt>RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0</tt> tag for <tt>ports/</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
- <td>Ports tree unfrozen</td>
- <td>TBD</td>
+ <td>Ports tree slush</td>
+ <td>17 October 2006</td>
<td>--</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>
+ commits made after tagging will not go in &local.rel;-RELEASE.
+ Also, wide sweeping commits are only allowed after explicit
+ approval from <tt>portmgr@</tt>. The ports tree will be fully
+ unfrozen after the release announcement.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Final package build starts</td>
- <td>TBD</td>
+ <td>17 October;nbsp2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>The ports cluster and
<a href="http://pointyhat.FreeBSD.org">pointyhat</a>
build final packages.</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td>Announce <tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
<td>TBD</td>
<td>--</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><tt>doc/</tt> tree slush</td>
<td>TBD</td>
<td>--</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>
<tr>
<td>Build <tt>&local.rel;-RC2</tt></td>
<td>28 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Begin building the second release candidate build for all Tier-1
platforms.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Release <tt>&local.rel;-RC2</tt></td>
<td>29 October 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>&local.rel;-RC2 Tier-1 platform images released and
uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org</tt>.</td>
</tr>
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<tr>
<td><tt>doc/</tt> tree tagged.</td>
<td>TBD</td>
<td>--</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>Version numbers bumped</td>
<td>9 November 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>The files listed <a
href="&base;/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/releng/article.html#VERSIONBUMP">here</a>
are updated to reflect FreeBSD &local.rel;.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><tt>src/</tt> tree tagged</td>
<td>9 November 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Tag the <tt>RELENG_&local.rel.tag;</tt> branch with
<tt>RELENG_&local.rel.tag;_0_RELEASE</tt>.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Begin <tt>&local.rel;-RELEASE</tt> builds</td>
<td>9 November 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Start &local.rel;-RELEASE Tier-1 builds.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Warn <tt>mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org</tt></td>
<td>9 November 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Heads up email to <tt>mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org</tt> to give admins
time to prepare for the load spike to come. The site
administrators have frequently requested advance notice
for new ISOs.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Upload to <tt>ftp-master</tt></td>
<td>10 November 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Release and packages uploaded to <tt>ftp-master.FreeBSD.org.</tt></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Announcement</td>
<td>13 November 2006</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have
received the bits.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Turn over to so@</td>
<td>TBD</td>
<td>--</td>
<td>Control of the RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch is handed over to
the FreeBSD Security Officer Team 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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