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Draft F17 Schedule with ONE WEEK ADDED, ending date of 2011-05-08
- gives developers a full 26-week cycle in a release cycle with (a) major changes (b) holidays (c) FUDCon NA
Key Milestones
See important release milestones for more details.
| 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 16 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 | Beta Release |
| 2012-04-23 | Final Change Deadline |
| 2012-04-24 | Compose 'Final' RC |
| 2012-05-08 | Fedora 17 Final Release |