Initial release schedule announcement

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15 January 2025

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

Release schedule reminder

4 April 2025

4 April 2025

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

Code slush begins

18 April 2025

18 April 2025

Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/14 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided.

releng/14.3 branch

2 May 2025

2 May 2025

releng/14.3 branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.

BETA1 builds begin

2 May 2025

2 May 2025

First beta test snapshot.

BETA2 builds begin

9 May 2025

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Second beta test snapshot.

BETA3 builds begin

16 May 2025

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Third beta test snapshot.

RC1 builds begin

23 May 2025

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First release candidate.

RELEASE builds begin

30 May 2025

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14.3-RELEASE builds begin.

RELEASE announcement

3 June 2025

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14.3-RELEASE press release.

14.2 EoL

30 September 2025

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14.2-RELEASE no longer supported.

14.3 EoL