Releases/17/Schedule

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Fedora 17 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 17. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes at this page.

Key Features

• Fedora 17 Features

Key Milestones

2011-11-08	Fedora 16 Release
	Planning & Development Begins
2012-01-24	Feature Submission Deadline
2012-02-07	Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends
2012-02-07	Branch Fedora 17 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze
2012-02-14	Software String Freeze
2012-02-14	Alpha Change Deadline
2012-02-28	Alpha Release
2012-03-13	Software Translation Deadline
2012-03-20	Beta Change Deadline
	Features 100% Complete
2012-04-03 2012-04-10 2012-04-17	Beta Release
2012-04-23 2012-04-30 2012-05-07	Final Change Deadline
2012-04-24 2012-05-01 2012-05-08	Compose 'Final' RC
2012-05-08 2012-05-15 2012-05-22 2012-05-29	Fedora 17 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.

• Gnome 3.4 -- March 28, 2012
• KDE 4.8 -- January 25, 2012
• Xfce 4.10 -- April 28, 2012
• LibreOffice 3.5 -- February 8, 2012