Hi all,
Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze is in effect now. And we have branched '6.4' from 'dev' 
as well so from now on all changes targeted to Qt 6.4 release must have 
'Pick-to: 6.4'.

br,
Jani Heikkinen
Release Manager

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of
> Jani Heikkinen
> Sent: perjantai 3. kesäkuuta 2022 12.53
> To: developm...@qt-project.org
> Subject: [Development] HEADS-UP: Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze will be in effect
> today
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze will be in effect today. If your change(s) are ready &
> approved today but fails to integrate due to CI flakiness etc you can still
> continue staging those in 'dev' during the weekend; we are planning to
> branch '6.4' from 'dev' at the beginning of next week. But if your feature 
> isn't
> ready you need either postpone it to Qt 6.5 or ask an exception.
> 
> br,
> Jani Heikkinen
> Release Manager
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf
> Of
> > Jani Heikkinen
> > Sent: torstai 12. toukokuuta 2022 7.36
> > To: developm...@qt-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [Development] HEADS-UP: Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze is getting
> > closer
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Just a reminder:
> > - Qt 6.4 platform and module freeze milestone will be in effect Fri 20th May
> >    * All new modules must be in CI latest at this point
> >    * No platform updates after this milestone (without agreed
> > exception)
> > - Qt 6.4 FF will be in effect Fri 3th June
> >
> > So there isn't that much time left to finalize ongoing things for
> > those milestones.
> >
> > And please start filling new features, modules etc in
> > https://code.qt.io/cgit/qt/qtdoc.git/tree/doc/src/whatsnew/whatsnew64.
> > q
> > doc
> >
> > br,
> > Jani
> >
> > ________________________________________
> > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> on behalf of
> > Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikki...@qt.io>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:16 PM
> > To: developm...@qt-project.org
> > Subject: [Development] HEADS-UP: Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze is getting
> > closer
> >
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Kindly reminder: There is less than 2 months for actual Qt 6.4 Feature
> > Freeze and ~ a month to 'platform and module freeze' -milestone. So
> > please notify me about all new modules planned to be released in Qt
> > 6.4; we should start adding packaging configurations for those as soon as
> possible.
> >
> > br,
> > Jani Heikkinen
> > Release Manager
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf
> > Of
> > > Jani Heikkinen
> > > Sent: torstai 3. helmikuuta 2022 10.10
> > > To: developm...@qt-project.org
> > > Subject: [Development] Heads-UP: Proposal for Qt 6.4 milestones &
> > > schedules
> > >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > It is time to agree on an initial schedule for Qt 6.4. With Qt 6.3
> > > we had some issues with getting content ready & packaged for  FF,
> > > alpha, and beta1 so we should do some adjustments to ensure smoother
> > > flow with Qt 6.4 and later releases.
> > >
> > > We have discussed this in The Qt Company mgmt and I am proposing the
> > > following:
> > >
> > > - Let's have an additional platform and module freeze two weeks
> > > before the official feature freeze. It means there can't be platform
> > > updates etc close to feature freeze and all new modules etc needs to
> > > be in CI 2
> > weeks before FF.
> > > This will mean some new platforms like macOS 13 could be postponed
> > > to .x release ( or of course added later as agreed exception, but
> > > the exception needs to be discussed and approved like all other FF
> > > exceptions). That should help us to keep dependency updates rolling
> > > and CI working close to feature freeze.
> > >
> > > - Let's stop releasing the official alpha release and move to the
> > > beta phase immediately after branching from 'dev'. Originally we had
> > > 'alpha' as a milestone after feature freeze where it is possible to
> > > build Qt by yourself, but binaries are not yet available. This is no
> > > longer relevant as we have binary snapshots already before the
> > > feature freeze. In addition, the typical
> > > (Wikipedia) definition of alpha release is before the feature
> > > freeze, not after as we have used it.
> > >
> > > And based on all the above my proposal for Qt 6.4 initial schedule is:
> > >
> > > - Supported platforms and new modules in place 20th May 2022
> > > (platform and module freeze)
> > >
> > > - Feature freeze Fri 3rd June 2022
> > >
> > > - Branching from dev to 6.4 (start of Beta phase) Mon 6th June 2022
> > >
> > > - Beta 1 release 14th June 2022
> > >
> > > - Branching from 6.4 to 6.4.0 Mon 5th September 2022
> > >
> > > - Qt 6.4.0 final Thu 29th September 2022
> > >
> > > br,
> > > Jani
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