LucidReleaseSchedule

Revision 8 as of 2009-10-09 21:24:57

Ubuntu LTS Release Details
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Freezes normally happen at the start of the given date, UTC time. So last minute changes need to happen the day before.
Some background information and Q&A about the Ubuntu release process can be found on TimeBasedReleases

See the Schedules of other projects

Week	Date	Task	Status	Notes
November 2009
1	November 5th			Toolchain Conservatively Uploaded
2	November 12th
3	November 19th			Developer Summit
4	November 26th
December 2009
5	December 3rd		$Warning /!\$ FeatureDefinitionFreeze	Alpha 1
6	December 10th
7	December 17th	Translations exported from LP
8	December 24th
9	December 31st	Kernel/Userspace Sync Point
January 2010
10	January 7th			Alpha 2
11	January 14th	Rebuild Test
12	January 21st
13	January 28th			Ubuntu 8.04.4
February 2010
14	February 4th	Upgrade Testing begins		Alpha 3
15	February 11th	Rebuild Test	$Warning /!\$ PartnerUploadDeadline
16	February 18th			Developer Sprint
17	February 25th	Kernel/Userspace Sync Point	$Warning /!\$ FeatureFreeze, $Warning /!\$ UserInterfaceFreeze, $Warning /!\$ ArtworkFirstDrop
March 2010
18	March 4th		$Warning /!\$ DocumentationStringFreeze	Alpha 4
19	March 11th	Rebuild Test, Final translation export from LP	$Warning /!\$ Beta1Freeze, $Warning /!\$ KernelFreeze, $Warning /!\$ NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline, $Warning /!\$ ArtworkSecondDrop, $Warning /!\$ DebianImportFreeze	Only from testing
20	March 18th		$Warning /!\$ Beta1Release, $Warning /!\$ LanguagePackTranslationDeadline	Beta 1
21	March 25th
April 2010
22	April 1st		$Warning /!\$ Beta2Freeze, $Warning /!\$ ArtworkDeadline
23	April 8th		$Warning /!\$ Beta2Release	Beta 2
24	April 15th	Rebuild Test	$Warning /!\$ FinalFreeze
25	April 22nd		$Warning /!\$ ReleaseCandidate	ReleaseCandidate
26	April 29th		$Warning /!\$ FinalRelease	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS