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Development Focus
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The Release Candidate (RC) deadline is next Thursday, September 15th, 2022.
Work should be focused on fixing any release-critical bugs.

General Information
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All deliverables released under a cycle-with-rc model should have a first
release candidate by the end of the week, from which a stable/zed
branch will be cut. This branch will track the Zed release.

Once stable/zed has been created, the master branch will be ready to
switch to 2023.1 Antelope development. While the master branch will no
longer be feature-frozen, please prioritize any work necessary for
completing Zed plans. Release-critical bugfixes will need to be merged in
the master branch first, then backported to the stable/zed branch before
a new release candidate can be proposed.

Actions
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Early in the week, the release team will be proposing RC1 patches for all
cycle-with-rc projects, using the latest commit from the master branch.
If your team is ready to go for cutting RC1, please let us know by
leaving a +1 on these patches.

If there are still a few more patches needed before RC1, you can -1 the
patch and update it later in the week with the new commit hash you would
like to use. Remember, stable/zed branches will be created with this,
so you will want to make sure you have what you need included to avoid
needing to backport changes from the master branch (which will
technically then be 2023.1 Antelope) to this stable branch for any
additional RCs before the final release.

The release team will also be proposing releases for any deliverable
following a cycle-with-intermediary model that has not produced any Zed
release so far.

Finally, now is a good time to finalize release highlights. Release
highlights help shape the messaging around the release and make sure that
your work is properly represented.

Upcoming Deadlines & Dates
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RC1 deadline: September 15th, 2022 (R-3 week)
Final RC deadline: September 29th, 2022 (R-1 week)
Final Zed release: October 5th, 2022
Virtual PTG: October 17-21, 2022


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