Utkarsh Gupta has announced that Ubuntu Linux 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) is now in Feature Freeze, which allows for bug fixes and new features to be implemented. If necessary, freeze exceptions can be filed, and the Release Team will consider the requests. Packages uploaded prior to the freeze deadline remain fixable. Feature Freeze ignores version strings, and the emphasis is on the archive's content rather than the exact technique.

Plucky (to be Plucky Puffin) now in Feature Freeze

As per the release schedule, Plucky is now in Feature Freeze.



Ideally, you will all now be focusing on bug fixing and not on getting new features into the release. However, if necessary, please follow the process for freeze exceptions:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess

Additionally, please file your Feature Freeze Exceptions in the next week so that the Release Team has visibility into further changes for the release and can make a preliminary review of the exception request.

As is the custom, packages that have been uploaded to plucky-proposed prior to the feature freeze deadline, but have gotten stuck there, remain candidates for fixing between now and release.

Remember that version strings don't matter for Feature Freeze. If you upload a new upstream release and it has no new features then you don't need an exception. If you add a debian/patch that adds a new feature, or enable one via build flags then you do. We care about the content of the archive, not about precisely how things got there.

Happy bug squashing!

On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,
Utkarsh Gupta