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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

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
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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
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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

Upstream Project Schedules

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