Hi FreeBSD users, I've just posted the schedule for FreeBSD 15.0 to the FreeBSD website. As a .0 release, this release cycle will be lengthier than normal, spreading over the last half of 2025.
15.0-RELEASE schedule: reminder email: July 11, 2025 main slush: August 8, 2025 stable/15 branch: September 5, 2025 ALPHA builds start: September 5, 2025 ports quarterly branch: October 1, 2025 releng/15.0 branch: October 3, 2025 BETA builds start: October 3, 2025 doc/ tree slush: October 3, 2025 doc/ tree tag: October 17, 2025 ports package builds: TBD (Between October 17 and 30[*]) RC builds start: October 31, 2025 RELEASE build starts: November 28 or sooner, 2025 RELEASE announcement: December 2 or sooner, 2025 15.0-RELEASE EoL: September 30, 2026 Branch EoL: December 31, 2029 [*] Or later depending on schedule slippage. I haven't listed all of the builds but they'll be a week apart per normal practice. In short: * Instead of 2 weeks of "reminder" I'm scheduling 4 weeks. * Instead of 2 weeks of "slush" I'm scheduling 4 weeks. * The stable branch happens on the first Friday of September. * There will be 4 ALPHAs built from stable/15 before the releng branch. * Instead of 3 BETAs I'm scheduling 4 BETAs. * Instead of 1 RC I'm allowing time for 4 RCs (although less would be nice). I think this allows enough time for problems to arise and be fixed without the schedule slipping; in particular allowing 4 weeks for RCs essentially means we have 3 weeks of schedule slippage built in, while a predicted release date of December 2nd means that in the worst case we can have 4 more weeks of delays before we run past the end of the quarter. -- Colin Percival FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
