The v2024.5 release cycle is scheduled to start in April 2025.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2025-04-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2025-04-30
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2025-05-07
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2025-05-14
RC testing 2025-05-15..05-28
v2024.5 release 2025-05-29

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