The 17.03 preview release cycle starts in December 2016.

Milestone

Date

Start of release cycle

2016-12-19

Feature proposal freeze: end of feature proposal and review period
New features must be proposed, reviewed and accepted by this date. Any features which are not accepted by this date will need to be proposed for a future release.

2017-02-17
2017-02-24

Soft code freeze: end of feature development for this release
From this date onwards, only bug fixes should be accepted.

2017-03-10

Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date

2017-03-21 EOD

RC1 testing

2017-03-22/2017-03-23

17.03 release

2017-03-24

If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. This would delay the release, which would be reflected on this page.

See also