Bioconductor 3.12 Release Schedule

This release will use the latest R-4.0.0. The official release date is schedule for Wednesday October 28th. The following highlights important deadlines for the release.

Friday October 2

• Deadline for new package submissions.

Monday October 5

• Announce deprecated packages for Bioc 3.12. They’ll be removed from Bioc 3.13. See End of Life for details.

Tuesday October 13

• Stop building Bioc 3.11, current release. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

• Start building Bioc 3.13, new devel.

Wednesday October 21

• No API changes to Bioc 3.12.

• Deadline to add new packages to the Bioc 3.12 manifest. Package submitted to tracker must have completed the review processes and been accepted to be added to the manifest

• Contributed annotation packages posted to devel annotation data repository.

Friday October 23

• Deadline for packages passing ‘‘R CMD build’’ and ‘‘R CMD check’’ without errors or warnings. This includes software, data experiment and workflow packages. Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing list.

• Bioconductor release candidate. Package maintainers should limit changes to “show-stopper” bugs and documentation improvements.

Monday October 26

• Last day to commit changes to the Bioc 3.12 branch. NEWS files must be updated before the builds start at 4:45pm EST or they will not be included in the release announcement.

  The branch will be frozen prior to creating the release branch on Tuesday, October 27. Committing last minute changes could break your package in both release and devel! Be sure to run ‘R CMD build’ and ‘R CMD check’ locally before committing any changes.

Tuesday October 27

• Creation of the Bioc 3.12 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes there will not be part of the release.

Wednesday October 28

• Bioconductor Release 3.12.

Post-release

• Build AMIs for release and devel

• Build Dockers for release and devel

• Packages marked as deprecated in Bioc 3.12 are now removed from the Bioc 3.12/3.13 nightly builds.

• Identify packages to be deprecated in the new devel, Bioc 3.13. This includes packages with errors and unresponsive maintainers.