The v2022pre release cycle started in October 2021.

Milestone Date
Start of release cycle 2021-10-01
Soft feature freeze: end of feature proposal and review period 2021-11-17
Soft code freeze/hard feature freeze: end of feature development for this release, only bugfixes allowed 2021-11-24
Release candidate 1 (RC1)/hard code freeze: no new code changes may be made after this date 2021-12-01
RC testing 2021-12-02..12-08
v2022pre release 2021-12-09

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