14.3-RELEASE schedule

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 19:21:48 UTC
Hi FreeBSD -STABLE users,

I've just posted the schedule for FreeBSD 14.3 to the FreeBSD website.  It
will be roughly the same as the schedule for 14.2-RELEASE plus 6 months.

Just to put this in context: The 13.5 release cycle (last release from the
13-STABLE branch) is starting soon with a release due in March; then we'll
do 14.3 in April-June; and the second half of this year will be dedicated
to getting 15.0 out the door.

14.3-RELEASE schedule:

  ports quarterly branch:  April 1, 2025
  reminder email:          April 4, 2025
  stable/14 slush:         April 18, 2025
  doc/ tree slush:         April 25, 2025
  releng/14.3 branch:      May 2, 2025
  BETA1 build starts:      May 2, 2025
  BETA2 build starts:      May 9, 2025
  doc/ tree tag:           May 9, 2025
  BETA3 build starts:      May 16, 2025
  ports package builds:    TBD (Between May 9 and 23)
  RC1 build starts:        May 23, 2025
  RELEASE build starts:    May 30, 2025
  RELEASE announcement:    June 3, 2025
  14.2-RELEASE EoL:        September 30, 2025
  14.3-RELEASE EoL:        June 30, 2026
  Branch EoL:              November 30, 2028

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