bookworm release planned on 2023-06-10 and the last weeks up to the release
Release date
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We plan to release on 2023-06-10.
If you want to celebrate it, please consider attending a Debian release party, or hosting your own! See https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBookworm for more information. (Note: the release process typically takes the whole day and the release isn't done until the early hours of Sunday UTC.)
Full Freeze date
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With the release date set, it's time to announce the Full Freeze [1] date: Wednesday 2023-05-24. This means that from that moment on, every package requires a manual unblock [2] by the release team if it needs to migrate to bookworm. Please note that, as with all freezes, the new rules apply for all packages that haven't migrated to testing yet (not only for uploads after the freeze).
For all uploads, please review the Freeze Policy [1] once again to make sure you know what is appropriate at this phase of the release.
The final weeks up to the release
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In the last week prior to the freeze, testing will be completely frozen and only emergency bug fixes will be considered in this period. Please consider Sunday 2023-05-28 at 12:00 UTC the absolute last moment for submitting unblock requests for bookworm.
Changes that are not ready to migrate [3] to testing at that time will not be included in bookworm for the initial release. However, you can still fix bugs in bookworm via point releases if the changeset follows the rules for updates in stable.
Upgrade testing
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If you are in a position to carry out upgrade testing from bullseye to bookworm in the field, now is the time to do so and send your feedback as a bug report against the "upgrade-reports" pseudo-package.
Release notes
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Please ensure that any information about your packages which should form part of the release notes is prepared in plenty of time to allow for review and translations. Release notes coordination happens in the BTS in bugs filed against the "release-notes" pseudo-package and in merge requests on salsa [4].
For the release team,
Paul
[1] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#full
[2] please use $(reportbug release.debian.org) to get the tags and template right
[3] The testing migration excuses must not mention *blocked* (due to dependency issues, CI or piuparts failures or other reasons). It is acceptable if the required age has not been reached at this time.
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/
Paul Gevers has announced the anticipated release date for Debian GNU/Linux 12 Bookworm.
