From nobody Fri Jun 28 14:40:39 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4W9dQj5HYGz5MtV7 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:40:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@k9w.org) Received: from out-188.mta1.migadu.com (out-188.mta1.migadu.com [95.215.58.188]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4W9dQj2v1qz4KLm for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:40:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kevin@k9w.org) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Envelope-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=k9w.org; s=key1; t=1719585642; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=qA0/yqaynvchuslvebLSuxENy5o0hz+NdXxyl/lLzM8=; b=VYidTzc3LIziVlaDtVntSe9d2NYxHbA1/ZpIVj1P2WMl949t7HcP2wPpNL7q9sFY1rFCd9 MFDDaLr/lC8dDTtNuxbpMu7hBE/s54AEYel6nuhrLlUEhimrW/o1ukktJPtDRICkU4lhH1 tqBgnXNEQI0IJp4ZFSVinmagp3JRtQot+rq85o8QyyMwHkDRCBwSzXfEihfLeAzF2sUI8T dm/tX0ow/RXvcX/qEvunHMzZOHRVGEFxG614KqX9NiztN+ouCy4Ik4+yRjlfr5Nklms5Sl xatQtsQEWFEdX1ykUq9QSgTQRHV6HX4NZbtcQkMIC+5f+PUVCct57+LAwrnSqQ== X-Envelope-To: re@freebsd.org X-Envelope-To: cperciva@freebsd.org Message-ID: <6c19b565-a2d0-459a-bc08-956cd889b24e@k9w.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2024 07:40:39 -0700 List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-stable List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 13.4-RELEASE schedule To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, re@freebsd.org References: Content-Language: en-US Cc: cperciva@freebsd.org X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Kevin Williams In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Spamd-Bar: ---- X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:202172, ipnet:95.215.58.0/24, country:CH] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4W9dQj2v1qz4KLm 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.) >