Release Planning Schedule

The following is the template for the Workstation Working Group’s release schedule. It follows the main Fedora release schedule, with additional check-in steps.

The schedule is meant to evolve as we use it, so please update this page as necessary.

Week Milestone Tasks

1

Fedora development cycle begins

20

System-wide change proposal deadline

21

Self-contained change proposal deadline

26

GNOME beta target date & UI freeze

1. check that all GNOME modules have releases, 2. update packages with the GNOME beta, 3. notify QA when the GNOME beta is available in Fedora, 4. plan a test week for when the beta will be available

27

Fedora branches from rawhide

28

GNOME test week happens around now

30

GNOME RC target date

32

Fedora beta release

33

GNOME stable target date

1. update packages with the new GNOME release, 2. notify QA when the update is complete, 3. start preparing GNOME Fedora Flatpak updates

35

Fedora final freeze

Start distributing GNOME Fedora Flatpak updates (should happen 2 weeks prior to expected release date)

37

Fedora stable release early target date

Workstation publicity to be released with the new stable release: blog post, website updates, talks, etc