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title: "FreeBSD 9.2 Release Process"
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= FreeBSD 9.2 Release Process

== Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.2. 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 |- |23 June 2013 |Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
|Release schedule reminder |1 July 2013 |4 July 2013 |Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
|Code slush begins |6 July 2013 |6 July 2013 |Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/9 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided.
|Code freeze begins |12 July 2013 |12 July 2013 |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 builds begin |19 July 2013 |19 July 2013 |First beta test snapshot.
|BETA2 builds begin |26 July 2013 |26 July 2013 |Second beta test snapshot.
|releng/9.2 branch |1 August 2013 |3 August 2013 |Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
|RC1 builds begin |2 August 2013 |3 August 2013 |First release candidate.
|RC2 builds begin |9 August 2013 |15 August 2013 |Second release candidate.
|RC3 builds begin |16 August 2013 |24 August 2013 |Third release candidate.
|RC4 builds begin |31 August 2013 |11 September 2013 |Fourth release candidate.
|RELEASE builds begin |[line-through]*23 August 2013* +
6 September 2013 |26 September 2013 |9.2-RELEASE built.
|RELEASE announcement |[line-through]*31 August 2013* +
14 September 2013 |30 September 2013 |9.2-RELEASE press release.
|Turn over to the secteam |- |15 October 2013 |releng/9.2 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.
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== Additional Information

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