Releases/16/Schedule

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Fedora 16 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 16. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes at this page.

Key Features

• Fedora 16 Features

Key Milestones

See important release milestones for more details.

2011-05-24	Fedora 15 Release
	Planning & Development Begins
2011-07-12	Feature Submission Deadline
2011-07-26	Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends
2011-07-26	Branch Fedora 16 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze
2011-08-02	Software String Freeze
2011-08-02	Alpha Change Deadline
2011-08-16 2011-08-23	Alpha Release
2011-08-30 2011-09-06	Software Translation Deadline
2011-09-06 2011-09-13	Beta Change Deadline
	Features 100% Complete
2011-09-20 2011-09-27	Beta Release
2011-10-10 2011-10-17	Final Change Deadline
2011-10-11 2011-10-18	Compose 'Final' RC
2011-10-25 2011-11-01	Fedora 16 Final Release

Time of Release
Historically Test and General Availability releases happen at 10:00am Eastern US Time on a Tuesday, which is either 1500UTC or 1400UTC depending on daylight savings in the United States. See Releases/Schedule for more information about scheduling methodology and schedule milestone definitions

Targeted General Availability Date
Historically Fedora strives to release a new distribution every six months or so, on a Tuesday as close as possible to October 31st and May 1st of each year.

Detailed Schedules

• All Detailed Schedules and iCal files
• Design
• Development
• Documentation
• Marketing
• Release Engineering
• Quality Assurance
• Translation
• Web Sites

Upstream Project Schedules

Links to other significant project schedules--useful for seeing see how Fedora aligns with them.

• LibreOffice 3.5? -- Jun 28, 2011(After)

• Java 7 -- July 28, 2011
• Gnome 3.2 -- September 28, 2011
• KDE 4.7.3 -- November 1, 2011
• Xfce -- (4.10 won't be release till 2012)