Fedora 9 Release Schedule

Key Milestones

Date

Event

8 Nov 2007

Fedora 8 Release

Fedora 9 Planning Begins (Features considered for approval)

22 Jan 2008

Fedora 9 Alpha freeze (non blocking)

5 Feb 2008

Fedora 9 Alpha release

11 March 2008

Fedora 9 Beta freeze

Fedora 9 Planning Ends (No new Features considered)

Fedora 9 FEATURE freeze

Fedora 9 String freeze

25 March 2008

Fedora 9 Beta release

Allow Fedora 9 pre-branch

7 April 2008

Fedora 9 Translation deadline

8 April 2008

Final Development freeze

Branch all packages for Fedora 9

17 April 2008

Fedora 9 Preview Release

1 May 2008

Release Candidate 1 (Not really public)

13 May 2008

Fedora 9 final release - GET IT

Historically Test and General Availability releases happen at 10:00am Eastern US Time, 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

Sub Project Schedules

Release Engineering

Documentation

Artwork

Infrastructure

Marketing

Websites

Upstream Project Schedules

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

Key Features