The v2021.6 release cycle is scheduled to start in July 2022.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2022-07-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2022-08-10
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2022-08-17
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2022-08-24
RC testing 2022-08-25..09-07
v2021.6 release 2022-09-08

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