Releases/9/Schedule

Fedora 9 Release Schedule

Key Milestones

8 Nov 2007	Fedora 8 Release--Fedora 9 Planning Begins (Features considered for approval)
22 Jan 2008	Fedora 9 Alpha freeze (non blocking)
5 Feb 2008	Fedora 9 Alpha release
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 Beta freeze
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 Planning Ends (No new Features considered)
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 FEATURE freeze
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 String freeze
25 March 2008	Fedora 9 Beta release
25 March 2008	Allow Fedora 9 pre-branch
7 April 2008	Fedora 9 Translation deadline
April 2008	Final Development freeze
8 April 2008	Branch all packages for Fedora 9
17 April 2008	Fedora 9 Preview Release
1 May 2008	Release Candidate 1 (Not really public)
13 May 2008	Fedora 9 final release - GET IT
10 July 2009	End of Life (No more updates)

• Complete Fedora 9 Task List

Historically Test and General Availability releases happen at 10:00am Eastern US Time, 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

Sub Project Schedules

Release Engineering

• Tasks
• Gantt

Documentation

• Key Milestones
• Tasks
• Gantt

Artwork

• Tasks
• Gantt

Infrastructure

• TODO

Marketing

• TODO

Websites

• TODO

Upstream Project Schedules

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

• Firefox 3 Schedule -- June 2008
• KDE 4.0 -- January 11, 2008
• Eclipse 3.4 -- late June 2008
• GNOME 2.22 -- 12 March 2008

Key Features

• Key Features