Initial release schedule announcement

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20 December 2023

Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.

Release schedule reminder

8 January 2024

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Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.

Code slush begins

19 January 2024

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Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/13 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided.

releng/13.3 branch

2 February 2024

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releng/13.3 branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.

BETA1 builds begin

2 February 2024

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First beta test snapshot.

BETA2 builds begin

9 February 2024

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Second beta test snapshot.

BETA3 builds begin

16 February 2024

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Third beta test snapshot.

RC1 builds begin

23 February 2024

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First release candidate.

RC2 builds begin*

1 March 2024

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Second release candidate.

RC3 builds begin*

8 March 2024

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Third release candidate.

RELEASE builds begin

15 March 2024

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13.3-RELEASE builds begin.