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| Features 100% Complete
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| <strike>2012-10-02<br/>2012-10-09</strike><br/>2012-10-16 || [[Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria|Beta Release]]
| <strike>2012-10-02<br/>2012-10-09<br/>2012-10-16</strike><br/>2012-10-23 || [[Fedora_18_Beta_Release_Criteria|Beta Release]]
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| <strike>2012-10-22<br/>2012-10-29</strike><br/>2012-11-05 || [[Change_deadlines | Final Change Deadline]]
| <strike>2012-10-22<br/>2012-10-29<br/>2012-11-05</strike><br/>2012-11-12 || [[Change_deadlines | Final Change Deadline]]
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| <strike>2012-10-24<br/>2012-10-31</strike><br/>2012-11-07 || Compose 'Final' RC
| <strike>2012-10-24<br/>2012-10-31<br/>2012-11-07</strike><br/>2012-11-14 || Compose 'Final' RC
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| <strike>2012-11-06<br/>2012-11-13</strike><br/>2012-11-20 || [[Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria | Fedora 18 Final Release]]
| <strike>2012-11-06<br/>2012-11-13<br/>2012-11-20</strike><br/>2012-11-27 || [[Fedora_18_Final_Release_Criteria | Fedora 18 Final Release]]
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Revision as of 19:45, 6 September 2012

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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
Beta Change Deadline
Features 100% Complete
2012-10-02
2012-10-09
2012-10-16

2012-10-23
Beta Release
2012-10-22
2012-10-29
2012-11-05

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

2012-11-14
Compose 'Final' RC
2012-11-06
2012-11-13
2012-11-20

2012-11-27
Fedora 18 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

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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.