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Release Management

Anas Nashif edited this page Feb 18, 2025 · 68 revisions

Please see https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/project/release_process.html#release-milestones and https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/releases/ for the definition of the release process and release checkpoints and milestones.

Release Activity

Release Version Release Date Current Version Support Level Maintainer Notes
4.1 Mar 2025 8 Months (11/2025) Benjamin / Fabio
4.0 Nov 2024 4.0.0 8 Months (7/2025) Dan / Mahesh
3.7 Jul 2024 3.7.1 LTS (7/2029) Anas / Alberto
3.6 Feb 2024 3.6.0 8 Months (11/2024) Brix / Maureen
3.5 Oct 2023 3.5.0 8 Months (07/2024) Johan /
3.4 Jun 2023 3.4.0 8 Months (02/2024) Anas / Josh
3.3 Feb 2023 3.3.0 8 Months (11/2023) Stephanos / Lauren
3.2 Sep 2022 3.2.0 8 Months (06/2023) Fabio / Mahesh
3.1 Jun 2022 3.1.0 8 Months (02/2023) Carles / Marti
3.0 Feb 2022 3.0.0 8 Months (11/2022) Dan
2.7 Oct 2021 2.7.6 LTS (01/2025) Chris / Anas

Release milestone dates

Milestone 3.7 (LTS) 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3
Planning 2024/01/12 2024/06/26
Review target milestones 2024/05/10 2024/10/11 2025/01/31
Release and Timeline Announcement 2024/05/31 2024/10/18 2025/02/07
Feature Freeze (RC1) 2024/06/14 2024/10/25 2025/02/14
2nd Release Candidate (RC2) 2024/06/28 2024/11/01 2025/02/21
Hard Freeze (RC3) 2024/07/12 2024/11/08 2025/02/28
Release 2024/07/26 2024/11/15 2025/03/07 2025/07/18 2025/11/14
End Of Life 2027/01/26 2025/07/18

Previous Releases

Milestone 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6
Planning 2022/04/27 2022/08/26 2023/02/01 2023/05/20 2023/09/22
Review target milestones 2022/08/12 2022/12/16 2023/05/05 2023/09/08 2024/01/05
Release and Timeline Announcement 2022/05/06 2022/09/02 2023/01/06 2023/05/19 2023/09/15 2024/01/19
Feature Freeze (RC1) 2022/05/16 2022/09/09 2023/01/27 2023/05/26 2023/09/29 2024/02/02
2nd Release Candidate (RC2) 2022/05/20 2022/09/16 2023/02/03 2023/06/02 2023/10/06 2024/02/09
Hard Freeze (RC3) 2022/05/27 2022/09/23 2023/02/10 2023/06/09 2023/10/13 2024/02/16
Release 2022/06/03 2022/09/30 2023/02/17 2023/06/16 2023/10/20 2024/02/23
End Of Life Ended Ended Ended Ended Ended Ended

Note, as per the TSC F2F of 2019/10/31, releases after and including 2.4 have a 4 month cadence.

Release management meetings

The release management team meets weekly to triage bugs and assess release readiness following the below agenda:

  • Triage bugs
    • Bugs without priority
    • Unassigned bugs
    • Issues without category
  • Review backports
  • Review release progress
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