The 18.03 release cycle starts in January 2018.
| Milestone | Date |
|---|---|
| Start of release cycle | 2018-01-01 |
| Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period | 2018-02-16 |
| Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed | 2018-03-02 |
| Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date | 2018-03-09 EOD |
| RC1 testing | 2018-03-12/2018-03-13 |
| 18.03 release | 2018-03-19 |
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