14 DAY TRIAL // Fedora Project's Mohan Boddu announced on September 26, 2016, that the upcoming Fedora 25 Beta milestone, which is scheduled for release next month on the 11th, is now officially in freeze stage.
Fedora 25 is the next major release of the Red Hat-sponsored computer operating system for power users and anyone else who wants a well-designed Linux-based OS. It has been in development since July 2016, and the Alpha snapshot has hit the streets on August 30, after being delayed by a week due to some nasty regressions and bugs that have been patched quickly.
The next stop in the Fedora 25 Linux development cycle is the Beta, which, according to the official release schedule, is now in freeze state. The Beta Freeze stage means that developers won't be allowed to add any other features to the upcoming Beta release, but only to fix blockers and other annoyances that might not offer users a quality product.
"Today is the Beta freeze. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Beta composes. Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the Beta release is approved, at which point the Beta freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Final freeze," says Mohan Boddu in the mailing list announcement.
Also today is the '100% code complete deadline' change checkpoint, another important milestone in the Fedora 25 Linux release schedule that makes sure all Fedora 25 changes are now code complete, so that the Fedora developers prepare only for fixing the most important issues before the final Fedora 25 operating system hits the streets on November 15, 2016.