GNOME 44 Schedule

This is the development schedule for GNOME 44.

Important information for module maintainers:

  • Tarballs are due by 23:59 UTC on the Saturday specified
  • Freezes begin by 23:59 UTC on the Saturday specified
  • In order to ensure adequate testing, core modules should try to release according to the unstable schedule if they have nontrivial changes.
  • Core modules are not expected to follow the schedule for stable releases. Instead, please release when you judge that a new stable release is required. Modules released before the deadline will be included in the next update of the GNOME runtime.
  • The .0 stable release is special. All modules that had an unstable release during the release cycle must release to ensure a stable version number, even if there have been no changes since the previous release.
  • How and where to request freeze breaks

  • Branching practices

  • There's a MaintainersCorner wiki page with general helpful information

  • Please report any improvements against the release notes project

Schedule

An iCal file is available at https://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/schedule.ics. This webcal schedule link might make subscribing easier.

September

October

December

January

29

30

31

1

2

3

4

26

27

28

29

30

1

2

28

29

30

1

2

3

4

26

27

28

29

30

31

1

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

19

20

21

22

23

24

25

16

17

18

19

20

21

22

26

27

28

29

30

1

2

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

26

27

28

29

30

31

1

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

31

1

2

3

4

5

6

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

30

31

1

2

3

4

5

February

March

April

30

31

1

2

3

4

5

27

28

1

2

3

4

5

27

28

29

30

31

1

2

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

20

21

22

23

24

25

26

17

18

19

20

21

22

23

27

28

1

2

3

4

5

27

28

29

30

31

1

2

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Week

Date

Task

Notes

September

38

Wed 21

GNOME 43.0 stable release

October

42

Sat 22

GNOME 43.1 stable tarballs due

GNOME 42.6 oldstable tarballs due

December

48

Sat 03

GNOME 43.2 stable tarballs due

GNOME 42.7 oldstable tarballs due

2023

January

1

Sat 07

GNOME 44.alpha newstable tarballs due

GNOME 43.3 stable tarballs due

GNOME 42.8 oldstable tarballs due

February

6

Sat 11

GNOME 44.beta newstable tarballs due

GNOME 43.4 stable tarballs due

GNOME 42.9 oldstable tarballs due

The Freeze: UI Freeze: No significant UI changes may be made without approval from the release-team; Feature Freeze: new functionality is implemented now; API/ABI Freeze for GNOME 44: Developer APIs should be frozen at this point; String Change Announcement Period: All string changes must be announced to Discourse with the i18n tag.
New APIs must be fully documented
Writing of release notes begins

8

Sat 25

String Freeze: no string changes may be made without approval from the i18n team (gnome-i18n@).

March

9

Sat 04

GNOME 44.rc newstable tarballs due

Hard Code Freeze: no source code changes can be made without approval from the release-team. Translation and documentation can continue.

11

Wed 15

Soft translation deadline: translations committed after this point may be too late to be included; maintainers should not release until after this day.

Sat 18

GNOME 44.0 newstable tarballs due

GNOME 43.5 stable tarballs due

GNOME 42.10 oldstable tarballs due

Hard Code Freeze ends, but other freezes remain in effect for the stable branch.
End of life for GNOME 42. This will be the final update to the 42 runtime.

12

Wed 22

GNOME 44.0 newstable release

April

16

Sat 22

GNOME 44.1 newstable tarballs due

GNOME 43.6 stable tarballs due

FortyFour (last edited 2023-02-23 20:04:30 by WillThompson)