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Fedora 20 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 20. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes on this page.
This is the release schedule for Fedora 20. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes on this page.
Key Proposed Changes
Key Milestones
| 2013-07-02 | Fedora 19 Release |
| 2013-07-16 | Change Proposals Submission Deadline |
| 2013-08-20 | Changes Freeze--Planning & Development Ends |
| Branch Fedora 20 from Rawhide | |
| 2013-09-03 | Software String Freeze |
| Alpha Change Deadline | |
2013-09-24 |
Alpha Release |
2013-10-08 |
Software Translation Deadline |
2013-10-15 |
Beta Change Deadline |
| Accepted Changes 100% Complete | |
2013-11-12 |
Beta Release |
2013-11-26 (*) |
Final Change Deadline |
2013-12-17 |
Fedora 20 Final Release |
(*) FESCo approved the request (ticket #1191) to shorten time between Beta and Final Change Deadline by one week to avoid possible holiday's break collision.
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. Additionally FESCo agreed on Wednesday and Thursday release dates to avoid potential conflicts with important events (holidays etc.) but Tuesday is still preferred option.
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. Additionally FESCo agreed on Wednesday and Thursday release dates to avoid potential conflicts with important events (holidays etc.) but Tuesday is still preferred option.
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. With current planning process, based on the scope of the planned release, it could be a bit later. Final schedule is accepted after the Change Proposals Submission Deadline.
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. With current planning process, based on the scope of the planned release, it could be a bit later. Final schedule is accepted after the Change Proposals Submission Deadline.
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 how Fedora aligns with them.
- Gnome 3.10 -- September 25, 2013
- KDE 4.11 -- August 14, 2013
- LibreOffice 4.1 -- Week 30, July 22 - July 28, 2013
- The GNU C Library (glibc) 2.18 -- August 12, 2013
Feel free to add any other significant projects schedules!