This is the FreeBSD 9.0 major release engineering wiki page. It tracks the status of the FreeBSD 9.0 release process including schedule, branching condition, change request queues, TODO lists, known issues, and more. It is updated regularly during the release process.
Please only edit this page if you are a member of the release engineering team, or if a member of the release engineering team has asked you to do so otherwise your edits may be lost with the next update.
9.0 released in January 2012.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Publicly Announced |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial release schedule announcement | - | 2011-04-19 | - |
| Release schedule reminder | - | 2011-05-06,2011-06-15 | - |
| Code slush (feature freeze) | 2011-06-19 | 2011-06-27 | - |
| Code Freeze | 2011-07-17 | 2011-07-18 | - |
| BETA1 | 2011-07-20 | 2011-07-28 | 2011-08-01 |
| BETA2 | 2011-08-03 | 2011-08-29 | 2011-09-07 |
| stable/9 created | 2011-08-03 | 2011-09-22 | 2011-09-22 |
| BETA3 | 2011-08-17 | 2011-09-24 | 2011-09-28 |
| Doc tree schedule announcement | 2011-08-01 | - | 2011-08-01 |
| Doc tree slush | 2011-08-08 | - | 2011-08-08 |
| Doc tree tag | 2011-08-23 | - | - |
| Ports tree schedule announcement | - | - | - |
| Ports tree feature freeze | - | - | - |
| stable/9 opened (be conservative) | - | - | - |
| RC1 | 2011-10-07 | 2011-10-18 | 2011-10-22 |
| RC2 | 2011-10-28 | 2011-11-13 | 2011-11-17 |
| RC3 | 2011-11-28 | 2011-12-04 | 2011-12-08 |
| RELEASE build | 2011-12-16 | - | - |
| RELEASE announcement | - | - | - |
CAUTION: FreeBSD Release Schedules may slip so the above dates are not guaranteed.
| Action | Status |
|---|---|
| Subversion: releng/9.0 created | - |
| Subversion: release/9.0.0 created | - |
| CVS: RELENG_9_0_BP created | - |
| CVS: RELENG_9_0 created | - |
| CVS: RELENG_9_0_0_RELEASE created | - |
| CVS: ports tree tagged | - |
| Tinderbox: RELENG_9 configured | done |
Read ChangeRequestGuidelines carefully. All requests neglecting these rules will be rejected. For general information about merging please see Merging.
Works-in-progress and late-breaking features as the FreeBSD 9.0 release process started:
OKed by Release Engineering to continue until code freeze:
Discussion ongoing or deferred: