14.4-RELEASE schedule

Hi FreeBSD -STABLE users,

I've just posted the schedule for FreeBSD 14.4 to the FreeBSD website.  It
will be roughly the same as the schedule for 14.3 plus 9 months.  (Usually
minor releases are 6 months apart, but .0 releases take longer so they
result in a slightly longer than normal gap between minor releases.)

14.4-RELEASE schedule:

  ports quarterly branch:  January 1, 2026
  reminder email:          January 9, 2026
  stable/14 slush:         January 23, 2026
  doc/ tree slush:         January 30, 2026
  releng/14.4 branch:      February 6, 2026
  BETA1 build starts:      February 6, 2026
  BETA2 build starts:      February 13, 2026
  doc/ tree tag:           February 13, 2026
  BETA3 build starts:      February 20, 2026
  ports package builds:    TBD (Between February 13 and 27)
  RC1 build starts:        February 27, 2026
  RELEASE build starts:    March 6, 2026
  RELEASE announcement:    March 10, 2026
  14.3-RELEASE EoL:        June 30, 2026
  14.4-RELEASE EoL:        December 31, 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