The 16.09 release cycle started in July 2016.

Milestone

Date

Start of release cycle

2016-07-22

Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period

2016-08-30

Hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release

2016-09-13

Release candidate 1/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date

2016-09-27 EOD

16.09 release

2016-09-30
2016-10-04
Delayed to include fix for CVE-2016-7795

See also