Bioconductor 2.5 Release Schedule

September 25

R:

• Start of the release cycle.

BioC:

• Deadline for new package submissions for release with BioC 2.5.
• All BioC package developers should start using R-devel pre-release for testing their packages.

September 28

R:

• R Grand Feature Freeze (alpha).

October 7

BioC:

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

October 9

BioC:

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

October 12

R:

• R Feature Freeze (beta).

October 16

BioC::

• BioC Feature Freeze (beta): no API changes to BioC.
• Deadline for BioC packages passing R CMD build and check without error.

October 19

R::

• R Code Freeze (release candidate).

October 23

R::

• R Prerelease.

BioC::

• BioC release candidate 1. Package maintainers should limit changes to "show-stopper" bugs and documentation improvements.
• Deadline for packages passing R CMD build and check without warning. Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing list.
• Annotation data packages finalized.

October 26

R::

• R 2.10 Release.

October 27

BioC::

• Creation of the BioC 2.5 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes will not be part of the release.
• Build final release repositories.
• Test install scripts, GUI installation.

Octorber 28

BioC::

• BioC 2.5 release.