Hi All, Kindly reminder: There is less than 2 months for actual Qt 6.4 Feature Freeze and ~ a month to 'platform and module freeze' -milestone. So please notify me about all new modules planned to be released in Qt 6.4; we should start adding packaging configurations for those as soon as possible.
br, Jani Heikkinen Release Manager > -----Original Message----- > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of > Jani Heikkinen > Sent: torstai 3. helmikuuta 2022 10.10 > To: development@qt-project.org > Subject: [Development] Heads-UP: Proposal for Qt 6.4 milestones & > schedules > > Hi All, > > It is time to agree on an initial schedule for Qt 6.4. With Qt 6.3 we had some > issues with getting content ready & packaged for FF, alpha, and beta1 so we > should do some adjustments to ensure smoother flow with Qt 6.4 and later > releases. > > We have discussed this in The Qt Company mgmt and I am proposing the > following: > > - Let's have an additional platform and module freeze two weeks before the > official feature freeze. It means there can't be platform updates etc close to > feature freeze and all new modules etc needs to be in CI 2 weeks before FF. > This will mean some new platforms like macOS 13 could be postponed to .x > release ( or of course added later as agreed exception, but the exception > needs to be discussed and approved like all other FF exceptions). That should > help us to keep dependency updates rolling and CI working close to feature > freeze. > > - Let's stop releasing the official alpha release and move to the beta phase > immediately after branching from 'dev'. Originally we had 'alpha' as a > milestone after feature freeze where it is possible to build Qt by yourself, > but binaries are not yet available. This is no longer relevant as we have > binary > snapshots already before the feature freeze. In addition, the typical > (Wikipedia) definition of alpha release is before the feature freeze, not > after > as we have used it. > > And based on all the above my proposal for Qt 6.4 initial schedule is: > > - Supported platforms and new modules in place 20th May 2022 (platform > and module freeze) > > - Feature freeze Fri 3rd June 2022 > > - Branching from dev to 6.4 (start of Beta phase) Mon 6th June 2022 > > - Beta 1 release 14th June 2022 > > - Branching from 6.4 to 6.4.0 Mon 5th September 2022 > > - Qt 6.4.0 final Thu 29th September 2022 > > br, > Jani > _______________________________________________ > Development mailing list > Development@qt-project.org > https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development