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 release engineering process or quality assurance issues should be sent to the public freebsd-qa mailing list. MFC requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reminder announcement | 8 September 2006 | 8 September 2006 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD &local.rel; release. | |
| Code freeze begins | 10 September 2006 | 10 September 2006 | After this date, all commits to &local.rel.fromtag; 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 the Ports Freeze | 17 September 2006 | 17 September 2006 | portmgr@ sends email to freebsd-ports@ to announce the dates for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree. | |
| Begin &local.rel;-BETA1 builds | 16 September 2006 | 16 September 2006 | Begin building the first public test release build for all Tier-1 platforms. | |
| Release &local.rel;-BETA1 | 17 September 2006 | -- | &local.rel;-BETA1 Tier-1 platform images built, released, and uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | |
| Begin &local.rel;-BETA2 builds | 30 September 2006 | -- | Begin building the second public test release build for all Tier-1 platforms. | |
| Release &local.rel;-BETA2 | 1 October 2006 | -- | &local.rel;-BETA2 Tier-1 platform images built, released, and uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | |
| Ports tree frozen | 10 October 2006 | -- | Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ tree during the freeze. | |
| RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch | 12 October 2006 | -- | The release branch is created. Update newvers.sh and release.ent on various branches involved. | |
| src/ unfrozen | 14 October 2006 | -- | Unfreeze RELENG_6 src. Continue to coordinate significant check-ins with re@FreeBSD.org until the release is final. | |
| Build &local.rel;-RC1 | 14 October 2006 | -- | Begin building the first release candidate build for all Tier-1 platforms. | |
| Release &local.rel;-RC1 | 15 October 2006 | -- | &local.rel;-RC1 Tier-1 platform images released and uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | |
| Ports tree tagged | 17 October 2006 | -- | RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0 tag for ports/. | |
| Ports tree slush | 17 October 2006 | -- | 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. Also, wide sweeping commits are only allowed after explicit approval from portmgr@. The ports tree will be fully unfrozen after the release announcement. | |
| Final package build starts | -17 October;nbsp2006 | +17 October 2006 | -- | The ports cluster and pointyhat build final packages. |
| Announce doc/ tree slush | TBD | -- | Notification of the impending doc/ tree slush should be sent to doc@. | |
| doc/ tree slush | TBD | -- | 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. | |
| Build &local.rel;-RC2 | 28 October 2006 | -- | Begin building the second release candidate build for all Tier-1 platforms. | |
| Release &local.rel;-RC2 | 29 October 2006 | -- | &local.rel;-RC2 Tier-1 platform images released and uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | |
| doc/ tree tagged. | TBD | -- | Version number bumps for doc/ subtree. RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0 tag for doc/. doc/ slush ends at this time. | |
| Version numbers bumped | 9 November 2006 | -- | The files listed here are updated to reflect FreeBSD &local.rel;. | |
| src/ tree tagged | 9 November 2006 | -- | Tag the RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch with RELENG_&local.rel.tag;_0_RELEASE. | |
| Begin &local.rel;-RELEASE builds | 9 November 2006 | -- | Start &local.rel;-RELEASE Tier-1 builds. | |
| Warn mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org | 9 November 2006 | -- | Heads up email to mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org to give admins time to prepare for the load spike to come. The site administrators have frequently requested advance notice for new ISOs. | |
| Upload to ftp-master | 10 November 2006 | -- | Release and packages uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | |
| Announcement | 13 November 2006 | -- | Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have received the bits. | |
| Turn over to so@ | TBD | -- | Control of the RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team one or two weeks after the announcement. |