GNOME 46 Schedule

This is the development schedule for GNOME 46.

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

28

29

30

31

1

2

3

25

26

27

28

29

30

1

27

28

29

30

1

2

3

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

4

5

6

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8

9

10

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

11

12

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17

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

11

12

13

14

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17

18

19

20

21

18

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20

21

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24

16

17

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19

20

21

22

18

19

20

21

22

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24

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

25

26

27

28

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30

1

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

29

30

31

1

2

3

4

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

30

31

1

2

3

4

5

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

February

March

April

29

30

31

1

2

3

4

26

27

28

29

1

2

3

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

8

9

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11

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12

13

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18

11

12

13

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15

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17

18

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20

21

19

20

21

22

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24

25

18

19

20

21

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24

22

23

24

25

26

27

28

26

27

28

29

1

2

3

25

26

27

28

29

30

31

29

30

1

2

3

4

5

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

1

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12

Date

Task

Notes

September

Wed 20

GNOME 45.0 stable release

October

Sat 21

GNOME 45.1 stable tarballs due

GNOME 44.6 oldstable tarballs due

December

Sat 02

GNOME 45.2 stable tarballs due

GNOME 44.7 oldstable tarballs due

2024

January

Sat 06

GNOME 46.alpha newstable tarballs due

GNOME 45.3 stable tarballs due

GNOME 44.8 oldstable tarballs due

February

Sat 10

GNOME 46.beta newstable tarballs due

GNOME 45.4 stable tarballs due

GNOME 44.9 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 46: 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

Sat 24

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

March

Sat 02

GNOME 46.rc newstable tarballs due

Wed 13

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

Sat 16

GNOME 46.0 newstable tarballs due

GNOME 45.5 stable tarballs due

GNOME 44.10 oldstable tarballs due

End of life for GNOME 44. This will be the final update to the 44 runtime.

Wed 20

GNOME 46.0 newstable release

April

Sat 20

GNOME 46.1 newstable tarballs due

GNOME 45.6 stable tarballs due

FortySix (last edited 2023-09-26 14:08:14 by MichaelCatanzaro)