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title: "FreeBSD 9.3 Release Process"
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= FreeBSD 9.3 Release Process

== Introduction

This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 9.3. 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 |- |4 March 2014 |Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
|Release schedule reminder |4 April 2014 |11 April 2014 |Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
|Code slush begins |9 May 2014 |9 May 2014 |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 |23 May 2014 |23 May 2014 |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 |30 May 2014 |30 May 2014 |First beta test snapshot.
|BETA2 builds begin |6 June 2014 |6 June 2014 |Second beta test snapshot.
|BETA3 builds begin |13 June 2014 |13 June 2014 |Third beta test snapshot.
|releng/9.3 branch |20 June 2014 |20 June 2014 |Subversion branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
|RC1 builds begin |20 June 2014 |20 June 2014 |First release candidate.
|RC2 builds begin |27 June 2014 |27 June 2014 |Second release candidate.
|RC3 builds begin |4 July 2014 |4 July 2014 |Third release candidate.
|RELEASE builds begin |11 July 2014 |11 July 2014 |9.3-RELEASE builds begin.
|RELEASE announcement |16 July 2014 |16 July 2014 |9.3-RELEASE press release.
|Turn over to the secteam |- |30 July 2014 |releng/9.3 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.
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== Status / TODO

link:../todo/[FreeBSD Release Engineering TODO Page]

== Additional Information

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