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title: "FreeBSD 10.1 Release Process"
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:localRel: 10.1
:localBranchStable: stable/10
:localBranchReleng: releng/10.1

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= FreeBSD {localRel} Release Process

== Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD {localRel}. For more information about the release engineering process, please see the link:../../../releng/[Release Engineering] section of the web site.

General discussions about the pending release and known issues should be sent to the public mailto:FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org[freebsd-stable] mailing list. link:{handbook}glossary/#mfc-glossary[MFC] requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.

== Schedule

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|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 {localBranchStable} 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 {localBranchStable} 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.
|{localBranchReleng} 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 |[.line-through]*24 October 2014* +
[.line-through]*5 November 2014* +
12 November 2014 |11 November 2014 |{localRel}-RELEASE builds begin.
|RELEASE announcement |[.line-through]*29 October 2014* +
[.line-through]*10 November 2014* +
19 November 2014 |14 November 2014 |{localRel}-RELEASE press release.
|Turn over to the secteam |- |26 November 2014 |{localBranchReleng} branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.
|===

"*" indicates late additions to the schedule.

== Status / TODO

link:../todo/[FreeBSD Release Engineering TODO Page]

== Additional Information

* link:../../[FreeBSD Release Engineering website]
