The v2021.7 release cycle is scheduled to start in October 2022.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2022-10-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2022-10-26
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2022-11-02
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2022-11-09 (1)
RC testing 2022-11-10..11-23 (1)
v2021.7 release 2022-11-24

(1) The release candidate was published on 2022-11-10 and testing started on 2011-11-11.

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