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Introduction

This is a specific schedule for the release of FreeBSD 7.2. For more general 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.

Schedule

Action Expected Actual Description
Reminder announcement 16 March 2009 17 March 2009 Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule for the FreeBSD 7.2 release.
Announce the Ports Freeze 3 April 2009 3 April 2009 Someone from portmgr@ should email freebsd-ports@ to set a date for the week long ports freeze and tagging of the ports tree.
Code freeze begins 23 March 2009 23 March 2009 After this date, all commits to RELENG_7 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 doc/ tree slush -- 3 April 2009 Notification of the impending doc/ tree slush should be sent to doc@.
Ports tree frozen 13 April 2009 13 April 2009 Only approved commits will be permitted to the ports/ tree during the freeze.
doc/ tree slush 10 April 2009 10 April 2009 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. 17 April 2009 17 April 2009 Version number bumps for doc/ subtree. RELEASE_7_2_0 tag for doc/. doc/ slush ends at this time.
BETA1 builds 30 March 2009 31 March 2009 Begin BETA1 builds.
RELENG_7_2 branch 10 April 2009 15 April 2009 The new release branch is created. Update newvers.sh and release.ent on various branches involved.
RC1 builds 13 April 2009 15 April 2009 Begin RC1 builds.
Ports tree tagged 20 April 2009 21 April 2009 RELEASE_7_2_0 tag for ports/.
Ports tree unfrozen 20 April 2009 21 April 2009 After the ports/ tree is tagged, the ports/ tree will be re-opened for commits, but commits made after tagging will not go in 7.2-RELEASE.
Final package build starts 20 April 2009 21 April 2009 The ports cluster and pointyhat build final packages.
RC2 builds 20 April 2009 23 April 2009 Begin RC2 builds.
RELEASE builds 1 May 2009 1 May 2009 Begin RELEASE builds.
Announcement 4 May 2009 4 May 2009 Announcement sent out after a majority of the mirrors have received the bits.
Turn over to the secteam TBD -- RELENG_7_2 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.

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