Releases/18/Schedule

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Fedora 18 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 18. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes on this page.

Key Features

• Fedora 18 Features

Key Milestones

2012-05-29	Fedora 17 Release
	Planning & Development Begins
2012-07-24	Feature Submission Deadline
2012-08-07	Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends
2012-08-07	Branch Fedora 18 from Rawhide
2012-08-14	Branch Freeze
2012-08-14	Software String Freeze
2012-08-14	Alpha Change Deadline
2012-08-28 2012-09-04 2012-09-11 2012-09-18	Alpha Release
2012-09-11 2012-09-18 2012-09-25 2012-10-02	Software Translation Deadline
2012-09-18 2012-09-25 2012-10-02 2012-10-09 2012-10-16 2012-11-13 (tentative)	Beta Change Deadline
	Features 100% Complete (done)
2012-10-02 2012-10-09 2012-10-16 2012-10-23 2012-10-30 2012-11-06 2012-11-27	Beta Release
2012-10-22 2012-10-29 2012-11-05 2012-11-12 2012-11-19 2012-11-26 2012-12-11	Final Change Deadline
2012-10-24 2012-10-31 2012-11-07 2012-11-14 2012-11-21 2012-11-28 not used anymore	Compose 'Final' RC
2012-11-06 2012-11-13 2012-11-20 2012-11-27 2012-12-04 2012-12-11 2013-01-08	Fedora 18 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

Schedule links are subject to change in a near future!

Upstream Project Schedules

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

• Gnome 3.6 -- September 26, 2012
• KDE 4.9 -- August 01, 2012
• LibreOffice 3.6 -- Week 31, July 30 - August 5, 2012