Re: 13.4-RELEASE schedule

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.)
>