The 17.12 release cycle starts in October 2017.
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| Start of release cycle | 2017-10-02 |
| Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period | 2017-11-17 |
| Hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release | 2017-11-30 |
| Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date | 2017-12-13 EOD |
| RC1 testing | 2017-12-14/2017-12-15 |
| 17.12 release | 2017-12-18 |
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
- Previous release schedules and more information about the timeline