This is the release schedule for FreeBSD &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 should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description | |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 23 June 2013 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. | |
| Release schedule reminder | 1 July 2013 | 4 July 2013 | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. | |
| Code slush begins | 6 July 2013 | 6 July 2013 | 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 | 12 July 2013 | 12 July 2013 | 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 | 19 July 2013 | 19 July 2013 | First beta test snapshot. | |
| BETA2 builds begin | 26 July 2013 | 26 July 2013 | Second beta test snapshot. | |
| &local.branch.releng; branch | 1 August 2013 | -- | +3 August 2013 | Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 builds begin | 2 August 2013 | -- | +3 August 2013 | First release candidate. |
| RC2 builds begin | 9 August 2013 | - | Second release candidate. | |
| RC3 builds begin | 16 August 2013 | - | Third release candidate. | |
| RELEASE builds begin | 23 August 2013 | - | 9.2-RELEASE built. | |
| RELEASE announcement | 31 August 2013 | - | 9.2-RELEASE press release. | |
| Turn over to the secteam | - | - | &local.branch.releng; branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |