FreeBSD 10.1 Release Process
Introduction
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 10.1. 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 should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
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Schedule
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 10 July 2014 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | 10 August 2014 | 10 August 2014 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code slush begins | 22 August 2014 | 22 August 2014 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/10 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. |
| Code freeze begins | 5 September 2014 | 5 September 2014 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/10 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| BETA1 builds begin | 12 September 2014 | 12 September 2014 | First beta test snapshot. |
| BETA2 builds begin | 19 September 2014 | 19 September 2014 | Second beta test snapshot. |
| BETA3 builds begin | 26 September 2014 | 26 September 2014 | Third beta test snapshot. |
| releng/10.1 branch | 3 October 2014 | 3 October 2014 | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 3 October 2014 | 3 October 2014 | First release candidate. |
| RC2 builds begin | 10 October 2014 | 10 October 2014 | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 builds begin | 17 October 2014 | 21 October 2014 | Third release candidate. |
| RC4 builds begin * | 29 October 2014 | 30 October 2014 | Fourth release candidate. |
| RELEASE builds begin | 12 November 2014 |
- | 10.1-RELEASE builds begin. |
| RELEASE announcement | 19 November 2014 |
- | 10.1-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | - | releng/10.1 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |
"*" indicates late additions to the schedule.