Releases/9/Schedule

Fedora 9 Release Schedule

Key Milestones

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
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 Planning Ends (No new Features considered)
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 FEATURE freeze
11 March 2008	Fedora 9 String freeze
25 March 2008	Fedora 9 Beta release
25 March 2008	Allow Fedora 9 pre-branch
7 April 2008	Fedora 9 Translation deadline
April 2008	Final Development freeze
8 April 2008	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

• Complete Fedora 9 Task List

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 for more information about scheduling methodology and schedule milestone definitions

Sub Project Schedules

Release Engineering

• Tasks
• Gantt

Documentation

• Key Milestones
• Tasks
• Gantt

Artwork

• Tasks
• Gantt

Infrastructure

• TODO

Marketing

• TODO

Websites

• TODO

Upstream Project Schedules

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

• Firefox 3 Schedule -- June 2008
• KDE 4.0 -- January 11, 2008
• Eclipse 3.4 -- late June 2008
• GNOME 2.22 -- 12 March 2008