Re: August 2026 stabilization week

In case it helps anyone with testing: I just announced weekly snapshot builds
from the same hash.  Install media, VM images, cloudware, all the usual stuff.

Colin Percival

On 8/24/26 01:00, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
>    Hi FreeBSD/main users & developers:
> 
> This is an automated email to inform you that the August 2026 stabilization week
> started with FreeBSD/main at main-n288532-74019bc3ea91, which was tagged as
> main-stabweek-2026-Aug.
> 
> Those who want to participate in the stabilization week are encouraged to
> update to the above revision/tag and test their systems.
> 
> The tag main-stabweek-2026-Aug has been published at Gleb Smirnoff's github repo.
> To connect this repo as an additional remote you need to run:
> 
>    git remote add glebius https://github.com/glebius/FreeBSD
> 
> Once remote is configured, to checkout the tag run:
> 
>    git fetch glebius --tags
>    git checkout main-stabweek-2026-Aug
> 
> If you want to use only the official FreeBSD repo, then update to
> the revision:
> 
>    git pull
>    git checkout 74019bc3ea91
> 
> Developers are encouraged to avoid pushing new features to FreeBSD/main during
> the stabilization week, but focus on bugfixes instead.  The stabilization week
> runs up to Friday 18:00 UTC, but if there is consensus that any regressions
> discovered by participants have been fixed, it will end early.
> 
> Once that happens, the advisory freeze of FreeBSD/main branch is thawed.
> 
> --
> Gleb Smirnoff

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