13.4-RELEASE schedule

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.)

-- 
Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid