14 DAY TRIAL // Everything looks great for the upcoming Fedora 27 operating system, which is expected later this fall, and it looks like Beta Freeze stage is already in effect since early this week, as announced by Red Hat's software engineer Mohan Boddu.
For those not aware, Fedora 27 is the first release of the popular GNU/Linux distribution to drop Alpha builds from its development cycle. Therefore, Fedora 27 will only get a Beta milestone during its entire development cycle, which is currently in freeze and it's expected to land at the end of the month.
According to Fedora 27's release schedule, the "100% code complete deadline" change checkpoint also reached. This means that all the proposed and approved Fedora 27 Changes must now be code complete. The target release date for Fedora 27 Beta is currently set for Tuesday, September 19, but it could slip a week on September 26.
"This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Beta composes," explained Mohan Boddu, Software Engineer at Red Hat. "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."
Final Freeze to take place October 10, Fedora 27 launches October 31
Since there are no Alpha milestones included in the release schedule of new Fedora Linux releases, this was greatly simplified, and the next step in the development cycle is the Final Freeze stage, which should take place in exactly a month from writing this article, on October 10, 2017. After that, the final release of Fedora 27 is expected later in October, on either the 24th or the 31st.
Fedora 27 will most probably be powered by a kernel from the recently released Linux 4.13 series, ship with the forthcoming GNOME 3.26 desktop environment, due for release next week on September 13, 2017, and include numerous new GNU/Linux and Open Source technologies and updated components, such as Perl 5.26, Golang 1.9, Glibc 2.26, Boost 1.64.0, RPM 4.14, Node.js 8.x, Ruby on Rails 5.1, PHP 7.2, OpenJDK 9, and others.