GNOME 42 Schedule
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This is the development schedule for GNOME 42.
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
- 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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 
| 20 | 21 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
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| 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||||
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| Week | Date | Task | Notes | 
| September | |||
| 38 | Wed 22 | GNOME 41.0 stable release | 
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| October | |||
| 43 | Sat 30 |   GNOME 41.1 stable tarballs due | 
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| December | |||
| 48 | Sat 04 |   GNOME 41.2 stable tarballs due | 
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| 2022 | |||
| January | |||
| 1 | Sat 08 |   GNOME 42.alpha newstable tarballs due | 
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| February | |||
| 6 | Sat 12 |   GNOME 42.beta newstable 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 42: Developer APIs should be frozen at this point; String Change Announcement Period: All string changes must be announced to gnome-i18n@. | 
| 8 | Sat 26 | 
 | String Freeze: no string changes may be made without approval from the i18n team (gnome-i18n@). | 
| March | |||
| 9 | Sat 05 | GNOME 42.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 16 | 
 | Soft translation deadline: translations committed after this point may be too late to be included; maintainers should not release until after this day. | 
| Sat 19 |   GNOME 42.0 newstable tarballs due |   Hard Code Freeze ends, but other freezes remain in effect for the stable branch. | |
| 12 | Wed 23 | GNOME 42.0 newstable release | 
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| April | |||
| 16 | Sat 23 |   GNOME 42.1 newstable tarballs due | 
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