The v2021.1 release cycle started in April 2021.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2021-04-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2021-05-26
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2021-06-02
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2021-06-09
RC testing 2021-06-10..06-16
v2021.1 release 2021-06-17

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