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Revision as of 20:29, 15 August 2008

openSUSE 11.1 is the next community release that incorporates new features from both the community and internal development. It will be done for the x86, x86-64 and ppc platforms.

IMPORTANT: WORK IN PROGRESS; DO NOT PUBLISH

Major areas of interest:

  • GNOME 2.24
  • KDE: KDE 4.1.1 (optionally also KDE 3.5.10)
  • OpenOffice.org 3.0
  • Continued improvement in the software update stack
  • Linux kernel 2.6.27 (or later)
The most important dates of the currently planned schedule are:
* Thu, Jul 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
* Thu, Aug 21: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2
* Thu, Sep 04: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha3
* Thu, Sep 18: openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release
* Thu, Oct 02: openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release
* Thu, Oct 16: openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release
* Thu, Oct 30: openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release
* Thu, Nov 13: openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release
* Thu, Nov 27: openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release
* Thu, Dec 4: openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release (internal)
* Thu, Dec 18: openSUSE 11.1 public release

Thu, Jul 24 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 1 release

  • Milestone: snapshot release without agenda

Thu, Aug 21 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 2 release

  • Kernel and installer work on a limited range of machines.
  • Boot able ISO with kernel, installer and all tool chain packages updated.
  • Start install and functional tests on those features which are available.

Thu, Sep 04 openSUSE 11.1 Alpha 3 release

  • Milestone: Toolchain is feature frozen

Fri, Sep, 5 Component freeze for beta1, crypto freeze

  • Milestone: We have settled for a KDE branch to go for
  • Milestone: Feature and version freeze for the base system
  • Milestone: Kernel and install works on most targeted machines.
  • Milestone: Packages containing cryptographic routines are frozen (ECR)
  • Preliminary Authoring Deadline for localized doc files (ADL loc prelim)

Thu, Sep 11 First translation round

  • Milestone: All packages submitted latest POT file into SVN

Thu, Sep 18 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 release

  • Milestone: installation workflow is feature frozen
  • Proofreading of all software starts so that we have a new baseline.
  • Milestone: Feature and version freeze for the complete distribution (exception: patchlevel update of leaf packages until Beta1+)
  • Milestone: First localized build
  • Milestone: Complete string freeze
  • Milestone: All features are coding and function complete.
  • Milestone: Kernel and install works on all targeted machines.
  • Milestone: Last round of software translation starts - "hard text freeze"
  • Milestone: Documentation deadline ("authoring deadline") for localized manuals, proofing starts, first source drop (locdrop) to Localization for volume estimates
  • Milestone: all new desktop applications, incl. KDE 4 apps, to ship with the product are integrated

Thu, Sep 18 Main translation round

  • Milestone: All packages submitted latest POT file into SVN
  • 12:00 CEST: Developers to check in the POTs for the 2nd cycle of software translation

Thu, Sep 25 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1+ release

  • Milestone: Patchlevel update of leaf packages (packages that are not on the DVD) finished

Thu, Oct 02 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 2 release

  • Milestone: Fully localized build
  • Milestone: Localization testing starts
  • Milestone: Only major/critical/blocker bugfixes allowed.
  • Milestone: Drop of (EN) screen shots to Localization
  • Milestone: Preliminary drop of all manuals for novell.com/documentation web site (beta) to rballard

Thu, Oct 16 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 3 release


Thu, Oct 30 openSUSE 11.1 Beta 4 release


Thu, Nov 13 openSUSE 11.1 RC 1 release

  • Milestone: All blocker bugs resolved.
  • Milestone: Last fixes for localization found during testing incorporated.
  • Milestone: Drop of Release Notes to Localization

Thu, Nov 27 openSUSE 11.1 RC 2 release


Thu, Dec 4 openSUSE 11.1 GM release (internal)

  • Only showstopper and security bugfixes get integrated.
  • Milestone: Final drop of all manuals for novell.com/documentation

Thu, Dec 18 openSUSE 11.1 public release

  • Release on the ftp server
  • all documentation available on novell.com/documentation Web site