This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 8.2. 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 | - | 08 October 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 | 28 November 2010 | 29 November 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 | 03 December 2010 | 10 December 2010 | First beta test snapshot. |
| releng/8.2 branch | 15 December 2010 | 21 December 2010 | Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. |
| RC1 | 17 December 2010 | 26 December 2010 | First release candidate. |
| RC2 | 07 January 2011 | 16 January 2011 | Second release candidate. |
| RC3 | 28 January 2011 | 03 February 2011 | Third release candidate. |
| RELEASE build | 21 January 2011 | - | 8.2-RELEASE built. |
| RELEASE announcement | 24 January 2011 | - | 8.2-RELEASE press release. |
| Turn over to the secteam | 31 January 2011 | - | RELENG_8_2 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |