NattyReleaseSchedule

Revision 20 as of 2011-03-29 17:09:52

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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
See the overview of Work Item Iterations for Natty

Week	Date (Thursday)	Work Item Iteration	Status	Notes
October 2010
1	October 21st	Release Development Planning		Toolchain Uploaded
2	October 28th	Release Development Planning		Developer Summit
November 2010
3	November 4th	Release Development Planning
4	November 11th	Release Development Planning
5	November 18th	Release Development Planning
6	November 25th	Release Development Iteration 1	$Warning /!\$ FeatureDefinitionFreeze
December 2010
7	December 2nd	Release Development Iteration 1		Alpha 1
8	December 9th	Release Development Iteration 1
9	December 16th	Release Development Iteration 1
10	December 23rd	Release Development Iteration 1
11	December 30th	Release Development Iteration 1	$Warning /!\$ DebianImportFreeze
January 2011
12	January 6th	Release Development Iteration 1
13	January 13th	Release Development Iteration 1
14	January 20th	Release Development Iteration 1
15	January 27th	Release Development Iteration 1
February 2011
16	February 3rd	Release Development Iteration 2 Planning		Alpha 2
17	February 10th	Release Development Iteration 2
18	February 17th	Release Development Iteration 2		Ubuntu 10.04.2
19	February 24th	Release Development Iteration 2	$Warning /!\$ FeatureFreeze
March 2011
20	March 3rd	Release Development Iteration 3 Planning		Alpha 3
21	March 10th	Release Development Iteration 3
22	March 17th	Release Development Iteration 3
23	March 24th	Release Development Iteration 3	$Warning /!\$ UserInterfaceFreeze (3/24), $Warning /!\$ BetaFreeze (3/24)
24	March 31st	Release Development Iteration 3		Beta 1
April 2011
25	April 7th	Release Quality Iteration	$Warning /!\$ DocumentationStringFreeze (4/7)
26	April 14th	Release Quality Iteration	$Warning /!\$ BetaFreeze (4/11), $Warning /!\$ NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline (4/14), $Warning /!\$ KernelFreeze (4/14), $Warning /!\$ Main Release Freeze (4/14)	Beta 2
27	April 21st	Release Quality Iteration	$Warning /!\$ LanguagePackTranslationDeadline (4/20), $Warning /!\$ Release Image Build (4/21)
28	April 28th	Release Quality Iteration	$Warning /!\$ Unseeded Universe Freeze (4/26) $Warning /!\$ FinalRelease	Ubuntu 11.04