The v2021dev1 release cycle started in January 2020.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2020-01-20
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2020-02-22
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2020-02-29
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2019-12-06
RC testing 2020-03-12..19
v2021dev1 release 2020-03-20

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