Releases/17/Schedule - Fedora Project Wiki
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Fedora 17 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 17. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes at this page.
Key Features
Key Milestones
| 2011-11-08 | Fedora 16 Release |
| Planning & Development Begins | |
| 2012-01-24 | Feature Submission Deadline |
| 2012-02-07 | Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends |
| 2012-02-07 | Branch Fedora 17 from Rawhide-- Branch Freeze |
| 2012-02-14 | Software String Freeze |
| 2012-02-14 | Alpha Change Deadline |
| 2012-02-28 | Alpha Release |
| 2012-03-13 | Software Translation Deadline |
| 2012-03-20 | Beta Change Deadline |
| Features 100% Complete | |
| 2012-04-03 2012-04-10 2012-04-17 |
Beta Release |
| 2012-04-23 2012-04-30 2012-05-07 |
Final Change Deadline |
| 2012-04-24 2012-05-01 2012-05-08 |
Compose 'Final' RC |
| 2012-05-08 2012-05-15 2012-05-22 2012-05-29 |
Fedora 17 Final Release |
Time of Release
Historically Test and General Availability releases happen at 10:00am Eastern US Time on a Tuesday, which is either 1500UTC or 1400UTC depending on daylight savings in the United States. See Releases/Schedule for more information about scheduling methodology and schedule milestone definitions
Targeted General Availability Date
Historically Fedora strives to release a new distribution every six months or so, on a Tuesday as close as possible to October 31st and May 1st of each year.
Detailed Schedules
- All Detailed Schedules and iCal files
- Design
- Development
- Documentation
- Marketing
- Release Engineering
- Quality Assurance
- Translation
- Web Sites
Upstream Project Schedules
Links to other significant project schedules--useful for seeing see how Fedora aligns with them.
- Gnome 3.4 -- March 28, 2012
- KDE 4.8 -- January 25, 2012
- Xfce 4.10 -- April 28, 2012
- LibreOffice 3.5 -- February 8, 2012