FreeBSD 14.0 Release Process
Introduction
This is the release schedule for FreeBSD 14.0. For more information about the release engineering process, please see the Release Engineering section of the web site.
General discussions about the pending release and known issues should be sent to the public freebsd-stable mailing list.
Schedule
During the main freeze, the Release Engineering Team may create ALPHA snapshots to publish for testing purposes. As the frequency and total number of the ALPHA snapshots will depend on the length of time the main branch is frozen, no official schedule is provided.
Announcements regarding the availability of the ALPHA snapshots will be sent to the freebsd-current and freebsd-snapshots mailing lists.
| Action | Expected | Actual | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Initial release schedule announcement |
- |
26 June 2023 |
Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule. |
|
Release schedule reminder |
21 July 2023 |
20 July 2023 |
Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule. |
|
Code slush begins / KBI freeze |
4 August 2023 |
3 August 2023 |
Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the main branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided. Additionally, there can be no changes to the KBI until main is branched to stable/14. |
|
stable/14 branch |
25 August 2023 |
24 August 2023 |
stable/14 branch created; release engineering continues on this branch. |
|
releng/14.0 branch |
8 September 2023 |
8 September 2023 |
releng/14.0 branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch. Commits to this branch require explicit approval from the Release Engineers. |
|
BETA1 builds begin |
8 September 2023 |
8 September 2023 |
First beta test snapshot. |
|
BETA2 builds begin |
15 September 2023 |
15 September 2023 |
Second beta test snapshot. |
|
BETA3 builds begin |
22 September 2023 |
22 September 2023 |
Third beta test snapshot. |
|
BETA4 builds begin |
29 September 2023 |
29 September 2023 |
Fourth beta test snapshot. |
|
BETA5 builds begin |
6 October 2023 |
6 October 2023 |
Fifth beta test snapshot. |
|
RC1 builds begin |
13 October 2023 |
13 October 2023 |
First release candidate. |
|
RC2 builds begin |
20 October 2023 |
20 October 2023 |
Second release candidate. |
|
RC3 builds begin |
27 October 2023 |
27 October 2023 |
Third release candidate. |
|
RC4 builds begin |
3 November 2023 |
3 November 2023 |
Fourth release candidate. |
|
RELEASE builds begin |
10 November 2023 |
10 November 2023 |
14.0-RELEASE builds begin. |
|
RELEASE announcement |
14 November 2023 |
20 November 2023 |
14.0-RELEASE press release. |
|
Turn over to the secteam |
30 November 2023 |
30 November 2023 |
releng/14.0 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement. |
"*" indicates "as-needed" items.
Additional Information
Last modified on: February 6, 2024 by Paul Ivanov