14.5-RELEASE schedule

Hi FreeBSD -STABLE users,

I've just posted the schedule for FreeBSD 14.5 to the FreeBSD website.  It's
the normal minor-release schedule, with the release scheduled for September
8th, six months (minus two days) after 14.4.

14.5-RELEASE schedule:

  ports quarterly branch:  July 1, 2026
  reminder email:          July 10, 2026
  stable/14 slush:         July 24, 2026
  doc/ tree slush:         July 31, 2026
  releng/14.5 branch:      August 7, 2026
  BETA1 build starts:      August 7, 2026
  BETA2 build starts:      August 14, 2026
  doc/ tree tag:           August 14, 2026
  BETA3 build starts:      August 21, 2026
  ports package builds:    TBD (Between August 14 and 28)
  RC1 build starts:        August 28, 2026
  RELEASE build starts:    September 4, 2026
  RELEASE announcement:    September 8, 2026
  14.4-RELEASE EoL:        December 31, 2026
  14.5-RELEASE EoL:        June 30, 2027
  Branch EoL:              November 30, 2028

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Colin Percival
FreeBSD Release Engineering Lead & EC2 platform maintainer
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid