Bioconductor 3.1 Release Schedule

This release will use R-3.2.0 (Full of Ingredients).

Tentative schedule

March 19, 2015

• (R): Grand Feature Freeze (3.2.0 alpha)

March 25

• All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines.

• Deadline for first-pass .db0 packages to be available for developers.

March 27

• Deadline for new package submissions.

• Deadline for release candidate .db0 packages to be available for developers.

March 31

• Release candidate of annotation packages built and posted to devel annotation data repository.

April 2

• (R): Feature Freeze (3.2.0 beta)

April 3

• Deadline for packages passing ''R CMD build'' and ''R CMD check'' without error.

April 7

• Grand Feature Freeze (alpha): no new packages added to BioC release roster.

April 9

• (R): Code Freeze (3.2.0 RC)

• Bioconductor Feature Freeze (beta): no API changes to BioC.

• Deadline for packages passing R CMD build and check without warning. Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing list.

• Stop release (BioC 3.0) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled.

• Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages.

April 13

• (R): Prerelease

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

• Annotation data packages finalized.

• Package NEWS files updated. Latest NEWS will be collated and included in release announcement.

April 16

• (R): Release (3.2.0)

• Creation of the BioC 3.1 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes will not be part of the release.

April 17

• Bioconductor release.