Hi Colin,
Thank you and the other members of the Release Engineering Team for your
great work on making FreeBSD such a reliable Operating System. I noticed
13.4 is scheduled to be released September 3rd, whereas 13.3 landed
March 5th. Is it true minor point releases come out roughly once per
year per major release branch? 13.3 landed 11 months after 13.2 for
example? Why only 6 months this time between 13.3 and 13.4?
This does not disrupt my usage at all. Just wondering.
Thanks,
Kevin Williams
On 6/27/24 5:45 PM, Colin Percival wrote:
Hi FreeBSD -STABLE users,
I have just posted the schedule for FreeBSD 13.4-RELEASE to the FreeBSD
website. It will be roughly the same as the schedule for 13.3-RELEASE
plus six months, except that this time I'm going to plan on having just
one Release Candidate rather than listing 3 on the schedule and finding
that I only needed one.
13.4-RELEASE schedule:
ports quarterly branch: July 1, 2024
reminder email: July 8, 2024
stable/13 slush: July 19, 2024
doc/ tree slush: July 26, 2024
releng/13.4 branch: August 2, 2024
BETA1 build starts: August 2, 2024
BETA2 build starts: August 9, 2024
doc/ tree tag: August 9, 2024
BETA3 build starts: August 16, 2024
ports package builds: TBD (Between August 9 and 23)
RC1 build starts: August 23, 2024
RELEASE build starts: August 30, 2024
RELEASE announcement: September 3, 2024
13.3-RELEASE EoL: December 31, 2024
13.* EoL: January 31, 2026
Since we're fairly late in the 13.x branch and it has only been 6 months
since we did 13.3-RELEASE, I'm hoping this release will go smoothly; but
this will rely on users testing the BETAs. (In particular, don't wait
until -RC1 to test because at that point we'll only hold the release for
something truly critical.)
