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title: "FreeBSD 9.1 Release Process"
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= FreeBSD 9.1 Release Process

== Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.1. 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 |- |5 June 2012 |Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
|Release schedule reminder |17 June 2012 |26 June 2012 |Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
|Code freeze begins |2 July 2012 |3 July 2012 |Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/9 branch will require explicit approval. Certain blanket approvals will be granted for narrow areas of development, documentation improvements, etc.
|BETA1 |6 July 2012 |15 July 2012 |First beta test snapshot.
|releng/9.1 branch |3 August 2012 |5 August 2012 |Subversion branch created, propagated to CVS; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
|RC1 |20 July 2012 |23 August 2012 |First release candidate.
|RC2 |7 September 2012 |9 October 2012 |Second release candidate.
|RC3 |17 October 2012 |3 November 2012 |Third release candidate.
|RELEASE build |9 November 2012 |4 December 2012 |9.1-RELEASE built.
|RELEASE announcement |12 November 2012 |31 December 2012 |9.1-RELEASE press release.
|Turn over to the secteam |- |15 January 2013 |releng/9.1 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.
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== Status / TODO

http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.1TODO

== Additional Information

* http://wiki.freebsd.org/Releng/9.1TODO/[FreeBSD 9.1 release engineering wiki page], which includes todo lists, scheduling information, binary compatibility information, and more.
* link:../../../releng/[FreeBSD Release Engineering website]
