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Fedora 18 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 18. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes on this page.

Key Features

Key Milestones

2012-05-29 Fedora 17 Release
Planning & Development Begins
2012-07-24 Feature Submission Deadline
2012-08-07 Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends
2012-08-07 Branch Fedora 18 from Rawhide
2012-08-14 Branch Freeze
2012-08-14 Software String Freeze
2012-08-14 Alpha Change Deadline
2012-08-28
2012-09-04
2012-09-11

2012-09-18
Alpha Release
2012-09-11
2012-09-18
2012-09-25

2012-10-02
Software Translation Deadline
2012-09-18
2012-09-25
2012-10-02

2012-10-09
2012-10-16
2012-11-13 (tentative)
Beta Change Deadline
Features 100% Complete (done)
2012-10-02
2012-10-09
2012-10-16

2012-10-23
2012-10-30
2012-11-06
2012-11-27
Beta Release
2012-10-22
2012-10-29
2012-11-05

2012-11-12
2012-11-19
2012-11-26
2012-12-11
Final Change Deadline
2012-10-24
2012-10-31
2012-11-07

2012-11-14
2012-11-21
2012-11-28
skipped
Compose 'Final' RC
2012-11-06
2012-11-13
2012-11-20

2012-11-27
2012-12-04
2012-12-11
2013-01-08
Fedora 18 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

Schedule links are subject to change in a near future!

Upstream Project Schedules

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