14 DAY TRIAL // Red Hat's Mohan Boddu announced earlier that the forthcoming Alpha development milestone of the Fedora 26 Linux operating system is now officially in freeze stage and is expected to launch later this month, on the 21st.
As reported by us last month, the Fedora 26 Linux release was delayed by a week, and it now looks like today, March 7, 2017, is a very important day in the release schedule of the upcoming operating system as it marks the Alpha Freeze, Software String Freeze, and Bodhi activation point. These milestones should have happened a week ago if that one-week delay hadn't occurred.
"Today's an important day on the Fedora 26 schedule, with several significant cut-offs. First of all today is the Bodhi activation point," said Mohan Boddu. "Today is also the Alpha freeze [...] and the Software String freeze, which means that strings marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not now be changed for Fedora 26."
Fedora 26 should land on June 13, 2017
In addition to the Alpha Freeze, Software String Freeze and Bodhi activation point, today also marks the "completion deadline" change checkpoint, which means that all the changes submitted for Fedora 26 must now be feature complete or close, so everything must be ready for testing when Fedora 26 Alpha launches on March 21, if it doesn't get delayed again, of course.
After the launch of the Alpha build, which appears to be the last that will be made available for Fedora Linux, the development cycle of the upcoming Fedora 26 Linux operating system will continue with the Beta milestone, expected to land on May 2. The final release of Fedora 26 is currently scheduled for June 13, 2017, if everything goes acccording to plan and no unexpected delays occur.