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Release Engineering Information

This page contains documentation about the FreeBSD release engineering process.

Upcoming Release Schedule

NOTE: Release dates are approximate and may be subject to schedule slippage.

Date Event Information
August?2015 FreeBSD?10.2 Target Schedule
July?2016 FreeBSD?11.0 Target Schedule

Code-Freeze Status

The following table lists the code freeze status for the major branches of the src/ subtree of the FreeBSD Subversion repository. Commits to any branch listed as “frozen” must first be reviewed and approved by the relevant contact party. The status of other subtrees such as ports/ and doc/, is also provided below.

Branch Status Contact Notes head Open committers Active development branch for 11.0-CURRENT. stable/10 Open committers Development branch for FreeBSD 10-STABLE. releng/10.1 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 10.1 supported errata fix branch. releng/10.0 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 10.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). stable/9 Open committers Development branch for FreeBSD 9-STABLE. releng/9.3 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 9.3 supported errata fix branch. releng/9.2 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 9.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/9.1 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 9.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/9.0 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 9.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). stable/8 Open committers Development branch for 8-STABLE. releng/8.4 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 8.4 supported errata fix branch. releng/8.3 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 8.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/8.2 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 8.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/8.1 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 8.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/8.0 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 8.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). stable/7 Open committers Maintenance branch for 7-STABLE (not officially supported). releng/7.4 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 7.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/7.3 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 7.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/7.2 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 7.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/7.1 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 7.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/7.0 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 7.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). stable/6 Open committers Maintenance branch for 6-STABLE (not officially supported). releng/6.4 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 6.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/6.3 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 6.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/6.2 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 6.2 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/6.1 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 6.1 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/6.0 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 6.0 errata fix branch (not officially supported). stable/5 Open committers Maintenance branch for 5-STABLE (not officially supported). releng/5.5 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.5 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/5.4 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.4 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/5.3 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.3 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/5.2 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.2 / 5.2.1 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/5.1 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.1 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/5.0 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 5.0 security fix branch (not officially supported). stable/4 Open committers Maintenance branch for 4-STABLE (not officially supported). releng/4.11 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.11 errata fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.10 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.10 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.9 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.9 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.8 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.8 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.7 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.7 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.6 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.6 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.5 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.5 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.4 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.4 security fix branch (not officially supported). releng/4.3 Frozen security-officer@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD 4.3 security fix branch (not officially supported). stable/3 Open committers Maintenance branch for 3-STABLE (not officially supported). stable/2.2 Open committers Maintenance branch for 2.2-STABLE (not officially supported). Subtree Status Contact Notes ports/ Open portmgr@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Ports Collection. doc/ Open freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org SGML/XML based documentation set. Release Engineering Documentation ———————————

  • FreeBSD Release Engineering
    Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release engineering team to make production quality releases of the FreeBSD Operating System. It describes the tools available for those interested in producing customized FreeBSD releases for corporate rollouts or commercial productization.
  • FreeBSD Release Engineering for Third Party Packages
    Describes the approach used by the FreeBSD release engineering team to produce a high quality package set suitable for official FreeBSD release media. This document is a work in progress, but eventually it will cover the process used to build a clean package set on the FreeBSD.org “Ports Cluster”, how to configure any other set of machines as a ports cluster, how to split up the packages for the release media, and how to verify that a package set is consistent.

Release Engineering Team

The primary release engineering team is responsible for approving MFC requests during code freezes, setting release schedules, and all of the other responsibilities laid out in our charter.

Primary RE Team (re@FreeBSD.org) : Glen Barber, Konstantin Belousov, Marc Fonvieille, Xin Li, Craig Rodrigues, Hiroki Sato, Gleb Smirnoff, Marius Strobl, Robert Watson form the primary release engineering decision-making group.

The builders release engineering team is responsible for building and packaging FreeBSD releases on the various supported platforms.

Builders REs (re-builders@FreeBSD.org) : Marcel Moolenaar, Yoshihiro Takahashi, Nathan Whitehorn

The third party packages in the Ports Collection are managed by the portmgr@ team. Among many other responsibilities, the port managers keep the ports cluster running smoothly to produce binary packages.

Package Builders (portmgr@FreeBSD.org) : Mathieu Arnold, Antoine Brodin, Baptiste Daroussin, Bryan Drewery, Erwin Lansing, Steve Wills

Old Releases

The FreeBSD Project does not maintain a complete archive of old release ISO images but many of them are available at ftp://ftp-archive.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/.

If you are unable to find an FTP mirror that still contains the release you are looking for, then you can email CD-ROM vendors to see if they have any old releases available.