This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD &local.rel;. For + more general information about the release engineering process, + please see the Release + Engineering section of the web site.
+ +General discussions about the release engineering process or + quality assurance issues should be sent to the public freebsd-qa mailing list. + MFC + requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
+ +| Action | +Expected | +Actual | +Description | +
|---|---|---|---|
| Reminder announcement | +-- | +25 January 2006 | +Release Engineers send announcement email to + developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD + &local.rel; release. | +
| Code freeze begins | +31 January 2006 | +31 January 2006 | +After this date, all commits to HEAD must be approved by re@FreeBSD.org. Certain highly + active documentation committers are exempt from this rule for + routine man page / release note updates. Heads-up emails + should be sent to the developers, as well as stable@ + and qa@ lists. | +
| Announce the Ports Freeze | +-- | +5 February 2006 | +Someone from portmgr@ should email + freebsd-ports@ to set a date + for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree. | +
| Begin &local.rel;-BETA1 builds | +5 February 2006 | +5 February 2006 | +Begin building the first public test release build for all Tier-1 + platforms. | +
| Release &local.rel;-BETA1 | +5 February 2006 | +5 February 2006 | +&local.rel;-BETA1 tier-1 platform images built, released, and + uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | +
| Begin &local.rel;-BETA2 builds | +19 February 2006 | +-- | +Begin building the second public test release build for all Tier-1 + platforms. | +
| Release &local.rel;-BETA2 | +19 February 2006 | +-- | +&local.rel;-BETA2 tier-1 platform images built, released, and + uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | +
| Ports tree frozen | +20 February 2006 | +-- | +Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ + tree during the freeze. | +
| Begin &local.rel;-BETA3 builds | +5 March 2006 | +-- | +Begin building the third public test release build for all Tier-1 + platforms. | +
| Release &local.rel;-BETA3 | +5 March 2006 | +-- | +&local.rel;-BETA2 tier-1 platform images built, released, and + uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | +
| Announce doc/ tree slush | +6 March 2006 | +-- | +Notification of the impending doc/ tree slush should + be sent to doc@. | +
| Ports tree tagged | +6 March 2006 | +-- | +RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0 tag for ports/. | +
| Ports tree unfrozen | +6 March 2006 | +-- | +After the ports/ tree is tagged, + the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but + commits made after tagging will not go in &local.rel;-RELEASE. | +
| Final package build starts | +TBD | +-- | +The ports cluster and + pointyhat + build final packages. | +
| doc/ tree slush | +10 March 2006 | +-- | +Non-essential commits to the en_US.ISO8859-1/ subtree + should be delayed from this point until after the doc/ + tree tagging, to give translation teams time to synchronize + their work. | +
| doc/ tree tagged. | +13 March 2006 | +-- | +Version number bumps for doc/ subtree. + RELEASE_&local.rel.tag;_0 tag for doc/. doc/ + slush ends at this time. | +
| RELENG_5_5 branch | +19 March 2006 | +-- | +The new major version branch is created. Update newvers.sh + and release.ent on various branches involved. | +
| src/ unfrozen | +TBD | +-- | +Unfreeze RELENG_5 src. Continue to coordinate significant + check-ins with re@FreeBSD.org until the release is final. | +
| Build &local.rel;-RC1 | +19 March 2006 | +-- | +Begin building the first release candidate build for all Tier-1 + platforms. | +
| Release &local.rel;-RC1 | +19 March 2006 | +-- | +&local.rel;-RC1 tier-1 platform images released, and + uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | +
| Build &local.rel;-RC2 | +26 March 2006 | +-- | +Begin building the second release candidate build for all Tier-1 + platforms. | +
| Release &local.rel;-RC2 | +26 March 2006 | +-- | +&local.rel;-RC2 tier-1 platform images released, and + uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | +
| Version numbers bumped | +31 March 2006 | +-- | +The files listed here + are updated to reflect FreeBSD &local.rel;. | +
| src/ tree tagged | +31 March 2006 | +-- | +Tag the RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch with + RELENG_&local.rel.tag;_0_RELEASE. | +
| Begin &local.rel;-RELEASE builds | +31 March 2006 | +-- | +Start &local.rel;-RELEASE Tier-1 builds. | +
| Warn mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org | +31 March 2006 | +-- | +Heads up email to mirror-announce@FreeBSD.org to give admins + time to prepare for the load spike to come. The site + administrators have frequently requested advance notice + for new ISOs. | +
| Upload to ftp-master | +2 April 2006 | +-- | +Release and packages uploaded to ftp-master.FreeBSD.org. | +
| Announcement | +3 April 2006 | +-- | +Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have + received the bits. | +
| Turn over to the secteam | +TBD | +-- | +RELENG_&local.rel.tag; branch is handed over to + the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the + announcement. | +