This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 8.1. 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-current mailing list. MFC requests should be sent to re@FreeBSD.org.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 01 April 2010 | Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
| Release schedule reminder | - | Weekly | Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
| Code freeze begins | 24 May 2010 | 25 May 2010 | Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/8 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc. |
| BETA1 | 28 May 2010 | 27 May 2010 | First beta test snapshot. |
| releng/8.1 branch | 10 June 2010 | 14 June 2010 | Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 | 11 June 2010 | 14 June 2010 | First release candidate. |
| RC2 | 25 June 2010 | 26 June 2010 | Second release candidate. |
| RELEASE build | 09 July 2010 | 17 July 2010 | 8.1-RELEASE built. |
| RELEASE announcement | TBD | 23 July 2010 | 8.1-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | TBD | 30 July 2010 | RELENG_8_1 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |