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-stable mailing list.
MFC requests are no longer being accepted. ?>MFC requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
&beta.local.where; &beta2.local.where;| Action | Expected | Actual | Description | |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 3 January 2020 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. | |
| Release schedule reminder | 20 March 2020 | 20 March 2020 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. | |
| Code slush begins | 24 April 2020 | 24 April 2020 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the &local.branch.stable; branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. | |
| &local.branch.releng; branch | 8 May 2020 | 8 May 2020 | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. | |
| BETA1 builds begin | 8 May 2020 | 8 May 2020 | First beta test snapshot. | |
| BETA2 builds begin | 15 May 2020 | 15 May 2020 | Second beta test snapshot. | |
| RC1 builds begin | 22 May 2020 | 22 May 2020 | First release candidate. | |
| RC2 builds begin | 29 May 2020 | -- | +29 May 2020 | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin * | 5 June 2020 | - | Third release candidate. | |
| RELEASE builds begin | 19 June 2020 | - | &local.rel;-RELEASE builds begin. | |
| RELEASE announcement | 23 June 2020 | - | &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.