The v2019.6 release cycle started in December 2020.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2020-12-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2021-01-29
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2021-02-17
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2021-02-24
RC testing 2021-02-25..03-03
v2019.6 release 2021-03-04

If the release candidate 1 does not successfully pass all required tests, then the issues will be fixed and a new release candidate will be re-tested. This would delay the release, which would be reflected on this page.

See also