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.
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 | 13 April 2016 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 27 May 2016 | 27 May 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 | 10 June 2016 | 10 June 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 | 24 June 2016 | 24 June 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 | 8 July 2016 | 8 July 2016 | Subversion branch created; release engineering continues on this branch. |
| BETA1 builds begin | 8 July 2016 | 8 July 2016 | First beta test snapshot. |
| &local.branch.head; thaw | 9 July 2016 | 9 July 2016 | The code freeze on the &local.branch.head; branch is lifted. |
| BETA2 builds begin | 15 July 2016 | 22 July 2016 | Second beta test snapshot. |
| BETA3 builds begin * | 22 July 2016 | - | Third beta test snapshot. |
| &local.branch.releng; branch | 29 July 2016 | - | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 29 July 2016 | - | First release candidate. |
| &local.branch.stable; thaw | 30 July 2016 | - | The code freeze on the &local.branch.stable; branch is lifted. |
| RC2 builds begin | 5 August 2016 | - | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin * | 12 August 2016 | - | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE builds begin | 19 August 2016 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE builds begin. |
| RELEASE announcement | 2 September 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.
Modern PCs use the amd64 architecture, including those with Intel® branded processors. Computers with more than 3 GB of memory should use amd64. If the computer is an older, 32-bit only model, use i386. For embedded devices and single-board computers (SBC) such as the Raspberry Pi, Beagle Bone Black, Panda Board, and Zed Board, use the armv6 SD card image which supports ARMv6 and ARMv7 processors.
The &os; installer can be downloaded in a number of different formats including CD (disc1), DVD (dvd1), and Network Install (bootonly) sized ISO Disc Images, as well as regular and mini USB memory stick images. Later versions of &os; are also offered as prebuilt expandable Virtual Machine images, and as SD Cards for embedded platforms.
While &os; does not gather deployment statistics, having statistical information available is essential. Please consider installing the sysutils/bsdstats package, which collects hardware and software statistics, helping developers understand how to best focus their efforts. The information collected is available at the bsdstats.org website.
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If you are interested in a purely experimental snapshot release of &os;-CURRENT (AKA &rel.head;-CURRENT), aimed at developers and bleeding-edge testers only, then please see the &os; Snapshot Releases page. For more information about past, present and future releases in general, please visit the release information page.
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If you plan on getting &os; via HTTP or FTP, please check the listing of mirror sites in the handbook to see if there is a site closer to you.
There are many options for installing &os;, including installation from CD-ROM, DVD, USB Memory Stick or even directly using anonymous FTP, HTTP, or NFS. Please read through the &os; installation guide before downloading the entire &os; distribution.
&os; can be acquired on CD-ROM or DVD from FreeBSD Mall, or one of the other CD-ROM and DVD Publishers.
For downloading past releases, please visit the FTP archive.
&os; is widely used as a building block for other commercial and open-source operating systems. The projects below are widely used and of particular interest to &os; users.
FreeNAS is an open source storage platform based on &os; and supports sharing across Windows, Apple, and UNIX-like systems.
PC-BSD is a &os; derivative with a graphical installer and impressive desktop tools aimed at ease of use for the casual computer user.
pfSense is a free, open source customized distribution of &os; tailored for use as a firewall and router.
The &os; Ports Collection is a diverse collection of utility and application software that has been ported to &os;.
For information about how you can contribute your favorite piece of software to the Ports Collection, have a look at The Porter's Handbook and the article Contributing to &os;.
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