This is the release schedule for &os; &local.rel;. For more information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.
+Important: This schedule is tentative, and may be + subject to change.
+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.
&beta.local.where; &beta2.local.where;| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 26 February 2015 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | 1 July 2015 | - | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 28 August 2015 | - | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the &local.branch.stable; branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. |
| Code freeze begins | 11 September 2015 | - | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the &local.branch.stable; branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| BETA1 builds begin | 18 September 2015 | - | First beta test snapshot. |
| BETA2 builds begin | 25 September 2015 | - | Second beta test snapshot. |
| BETA3 builds begin * | 2 October 2015 | - | Third beta test snapshot. |
| &local.branch.releng; branch | 9 October 2015 | - | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 9 October 2015 | - | First release candidate. |
| &local.branch.stable; thaw | 10 October 2015 | - | The code freeze on the &local.branch.stable; branch is lifted. |
| RC2 builds begin | 16 October 2015 | - | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin * | 23 October 2015 | - | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE builds begin | 30 October 2015 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE builds begin. |
| RELEASE announcement | 9 November 2015 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | - | &local.branch.releng; branch is handed over to the &os; Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |
"*" indicates "as-needed" items.
This is the release schedule for &os; &local.rel;. For more information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.
+Important: This schedule is tentative, and may be + subject to change.
+General discussions about the pending release and known issues should be sent to the public freebsd-current mailing list. MFC requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
&beta.local.where; &beta2.local.where;During the &local.branch.head; freeze, the Release Engineering Team may create ALPHA snapshots to publish for testing purposes. As the frequency and total number of the ALPHA snapshots will depend on the length of time the &local.branch.head; branch is frozen, no official schedule is provided.
Announcements regarding the availability of the ALPHA snapshots will be sent to the freebsd-current and freebsd-snapshots mailing lists.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 26 February 2015 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | 25 March 2016 | - | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 22 April 2016 | - | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the &local.branch.head; branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. |
| Code freeze begins | 29 April 2016 | - | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the &local.branch.head; branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| KBI freeze begins | 13 May 2016 | - | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the &local.branch.head; branch will require explicit approval. Additionally, there can be no changes to the KBI until &local.branch.head; is branched to &local.branch.stable;. |
| &local.branch.stable; branch | 10 June 2016 | - | Subversion branch created; release engineering continues on this branch. |
| BETA1 builds begin | 10 June 2016 | - | First beta test snapshot. |
| &local.branch.head; thaw | 11 June 2016 | - | The code freeze on the &local.branch.head; branch is lifted. |
| BETA2 builds begin | 17 June 2016 | - | Second beta test snapshot. |
| BETA3 builds begin * | 24 June 2016 | - | Third beta test snapshot. |
| &local.branch.releng; branch | 1 July 2016 | - | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 1 July 2016 | - | First release candidate. |
| &local.branch.stable; thaw | 2 July 2016 | - | The code freeze on the &local.branch.stable; branch is lifted. |
| RC2 builds begin | 8 July 2016 | - | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin * | 15 July 2016 | - | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE builds begin | 22 July 2016 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE builds begin. |
| RELEASE announcement | 27 July 2016 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | - | &local.branch.releng; branch is handed over to the &os; Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |
"*" indicates "as-needed" items.