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Release Management

Anas Nashif edited this page Feb 19, 2025 · 73 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
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 EOL Brix / Maureen
3.5 Oct 2023 3.5.0 EOL Johan / Fabio
3.4 Jun 2023 3.4.0 EOL Anas / Josh
3.3 Feb 2023 3.3.0 EOL Stephanos / Lauren
3.2 Sep 2022 3.2.0 EOL Fabio / Mahesh
3.1 Jun 2022 3.1.0 EOL Carles / Marti
3.0 Feb 2022 3.0.0 EOL Dan
2.7 Oct 2021 2.7.6 EOL Chris / Anas
2.6 Jun 2021 2.6.0 EOL Kumar
2.5 Feb 2021 2.5.0 EOL Anas
2.4 Sep 2020 2.4.0 EOL Maureen
2.3 Jun 2020 2.3.0 EOL Carles
2.2 Feb 2020 2.2.0 EOL Johan
2.1 Dec 2019 2.1.0 EOL David
2.0 Sep 2019 2.0.0 EOL Ioannis
1.14 Apr 2019 1.14.3 EOL Kumar
1.13 Sep 2018 1.13.0 EOL 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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