The Beta release is set to arrive on May 9, 2017

Sep 6, 2016 00:15 GMT  ·  By

While the Fedora 25 Linux operating system is in heavy development these days, with an Alpha milestone out the door on the last days of August 2016, it appears that the Fedora devs are already planning on the next major release of the GNU/Linux OS.

Yes, that's right, we're talking about Fedora 26, whose release schedule was published on the Fedora Wiki, suggesting that the development process will start somewhere in February 2017 with a mass rebuild while the proposal submission deadlines for system-wide and self-contained changes are set for January 10 and February 14, respectively.

After that, the Fedora 26 Alpha and Software String Freeze development stages are set for the last day of February 2017, along with the Bodhi activation point. However, the Fedora 26 Alpha release is currently marked to arrive for public testing on March 14. On April, there's the software translation deadline set for the 11th, and Beta Freeze stage on the 25th.

Fedora 26 Beta will land for public beta testing on the day of May 9, 2017. Also in May, but this time on the 23rd, there's the Final Freeze development stage of Fedora 26, which means that no new features will be added from this point. As mentioned in the article's headline, the final release of the Fedora 26 Linux operating system might launch on June 6, 2017, if everything goes according to the plan, which rarely happens!