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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.
This is the release schedule for Fedora 18. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes on this page.
Key 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 |
2012-09-04 2012-09-11 2012-09-18 |
Alpha Release |
2012-09-18 2012-09-25 2012-10-02 |
Software Translation Deadline |
2012-09-25 2012-10-02 2012-10-09 |
Beta Change Deadline |
| Features 100% Complete | |
2012-10-09 2012-10-16 2012-10-23 |
Beta Release |
2012-10-29 2012-11-05 2012-11-12 |
Final Change Deadline |
2012-10-31 2012-11-07 2012-11-14 |
Compose 'Final' RC |
2012-11-13 2012-11-20 2012-11-27 |
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
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.
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