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Fedora 18 Schedule
This is the release schedule for Fedora 18. Other schedules are maintained for historical purposes on this page.
Key Features
Key Milestones
2012-05-29 | Fedora 17 Release |
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Planning & Development Begins | |
2012-07-24 | Feature Submission Deadline |
2012-08-07 | Feature Freeze--Planning & Development Ends |
2012-08-07 | Branch Fedora 18 from Rawhide |
2012-08-14 | Branch Freeze |
2012-08-14 | Software String Freeze |
2012-08-14 | Alpha Change Deadline |
Alpha Release | |
Software Translation Deadline | |
Beta Change Deadline | |
Beta Release | |
Final Change Deadline | |
Fedora 18 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
Schedule links are subject to change in a near future!
Upstream Project Schedules
Links to other significant project schedules--useful for seeing see how Fedora aligns with them.
- Gnome 3.6 -- September 26, 2012
- KDE 4.9 -- August 01, 2012
- LibreOffice 3.6 -- Week 31, July 30 - August 5, 2012