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 | 20 May 2015 | -- | +21 May 2015 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 19 June 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 | 3 July 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 | 10 July 2015 | - | First beta test snapshot. | |
| BETA2 builds begin | 17 July 2015 | - | Second beta test snapshot. | |
| BETA3 builds begin * | 24 July 2015 | - | Third beta test snapshot. | |
| &local.branch.releng; branch | 31 July 2015 | - | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. | |
| RC1 builds begin | 31 July 2015 | - | First release candidate. | |
| &local.branch.stable; thaw | 1 August 2015 | - | The code freeze on the &local.branch.stable; branch is lifted. | |
| RC2 builds begin | 7 August 2015 | - | Second release candidate. | |
| RC3 builds begin * | 14 August 2015 | - | Third release candidate. | |
| RELEASE builds begin | 21 August 2015 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE builds begin. | |
| RELEASE announcement | 31 August 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.