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| CURRENT (GDB 11) | NEXT (GDB 12) | |
|---|---|---|
| Branch: | June (2021-06-05) | TBD |
| Pre-release: | [as soon as branched] | [as soon as branched] |
| Release: | June (2021-06-19) | TBD |
| reSpin: | [3 months after release] | [3 months after release] |
Problems that should be resolved before the next release are marked as ``high priority'' in the bug database.
GDB's schedule works on a slip-for-slip basis. If, for some reason, the branch date slips, the release date will slip by an equivalent amount.
| Release | Estimate | Schedule | Actual | Slip (months) | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11.1 | 2021-06 | 2021-06 | 2021-09-12 | 3 | Same as 10.2: New blocking issues kept being found, not all at once, but progressively :-(; additional delays due to Summer Holidays |
| 10.2 | 2021-02 | 2021-02 | 2021-04-25 | 3 | New blocking issues kept being found, not all at once, but progressively :-( |
| 10.1 | 2020-08 | 2020-08 | 2020-10-24 | 3 | Large number of issues to investigate, some complex; additional delays from Summer Holidays |
| 9.2 | 2019-05 | 2019-05 | 2020-05-23 | 0.5 | Very few requests for fixes in 9.2 |
| 9.1 | 2019-12 | 2019-12 | 2020-02-08 | 1.5 | Large number of issues to investigate |
| 8.3.1 | 2019-08 | 2019-09 | 2019-09-20 | 0.5 | None |
| 8.3 | 2019-02 | 2019-02 | 2019-05-11 | 3 | Several difficult issues deemed blocking for 8.3 (new styling feature, Windows native support, ...) |
| 8.2.1 | 2018-12 | 2018-12 | 2018-12-23 | 0.5 | None | 8.2 | 2018-06 | 2018-06 | 2018-09-05 | 2.5 | Several difficult issues deemed blocking for 8.2, and summer holidays affecting progress | 8.1.1 | 2018-05 | 2018-05 | 2018-07-31 | 2 | Very few issues found in this release, and then waiting for analysis of PR symtab/23010 (not included in 8.1.1 after all); note that summer holidays also affected progress. | 8.1 | 2017-12 | 2018-01 | 2018-01-31 | 1 | Issues considered blocking for release took time to fix. | 8.0.1 | 2017-06 | 2017-09 | 2017-09-05 | 0 | 8.0 took a while to come out, but since then, very few issues found with this release! | 8.0 | 2017-03 | 2017-03 | 2017-06-04 | 2.5 | Python API issues to resolve before branching, followed by some issues that took longer to fix, and some issues on MinGW hosts discovered late |
| 7.12.1 | 2017-01 | 2017-01 | 2017-01-21 | 0.5 | One small blocking issue discovered late |
| 7.12 | 2016-07 | 2016-07 | 2016-10-07 | 2.5 | Several issues deemed blocking before release |
| 7.11.1 | 2016-05 | 2016-05 | 2016-05-31 | 0 | Great job from all contributors involved getting everything in on time! |
| 7.11 | 2016-02 | 2016-02 | 2016-02-24 | 0 | |
| 7.10.1 | 2015-11 | 2015-11 | 2015-12-05 | 0 | One of the quietest branches after the first release was made! (7 changes) |
| 7.10 | 2015-06 | 2015-08 | 2015-08-28 | 2 | The usual few minor issues we wanted to fix before releasing, slightly more challenging to solve than usual... |
| 7.9.1 | 2015-05 | 2015-05 | 2015-05-13 | 0 | |
| 7.9 | 2015-01 | 2015-01 | 2015-02-20 | 1 | The usual few minor issues we wanted to fix before releasing... |
| 7.8.2 | N/A | N/A | 2015-01-15 | 0 | A few issues that we felt were critical enough to warrant a .2 release. |
| 7.8.1 | 2014-10 | 2014-10 | 2014-10-29 | 0 | We were hoping to be able to release early but did not manage to. |
| 7.8 | 2014-07 | 2014-06 | 2014-07-29 | 1.5 | Small delay creating the branch, but then a large number of regressions found post branch creation. |
| 7.7.1 | 2014-05 | 2014-05 | 2014-05-05 | 0 | |
| 7.7 | 2013-09 | 2013-09 | 2014-02-06 | 6(!) | Long delays creating the release branch (git transition, new features, etc). |
| 7.6.2 | N/A | N/A | 2013-12-08 | N/A | Unscheduled release, mostly for PR 16303 (MIPS16 and microMIPS support with binutils release 2.24) |
| 7.6.1 | 2013-07 | 2013-07 | 2013-08-30 | 1 | Some minor issues to resolve and possibly lack of attention due to the summer holidays |
| 7.6 | 2013-02 | 2013-02 | 2013-04-26 | 2 | Larger than usual number of regressions and critical issues detected after creating branch | 7.5.1 | 2012-11 | 2012-11 | 2012-11-29 | 0 | 7.5 | 2012-06 | 2012-06 | 2012-08-17 | 2 | Waiting for last few patches and for Release Manager to be available. | 7.4.1 | 2012-04 | 2012-04 | 2012-04-26 | 0 | 7.4 | 2011-12 | 2011-12 | 2012-01-24 | 1 | Waited for some features, and a bit of instability introduced just before branching. | 7.3.1 | (none) | (none) | 2011-09-04 | Unplanned minor corrective release decided as soon as we were told that the ISBN and edition number needed to be changed in the GDB User's Guide. | 7.3 | 2011-03 | 2011-03 | 2011-07-26 | 4 | Regressions due to "dwarf2 physname" took a very long time to fix | 7.2 | 2010-08 | 2010-07 | 2010-09-02 | 2 | Some blocking problems discovered prior to branching; a delay due to the Release Manager disappearing; and delays prior to releasing due to some missing documentation. | 7.1 | 2010-02 | 2010-03 | 2010-03-18 | 1 | Waited for a few extra features that were almost ready but not quite. | 7.0.1 | 2009-12 | 2009-12 | 2009-12-22 | 0 | 7.0 | 2009-05 | 2009-05 | 2009-10-06 | 5 | Too many new features that needed a little extra time to mature. | 6.8 | 2008-02 | 2008-02 | 2008-02-29 | 0 |
| 6.7 | 2007-07 | 2007-07 | 2007-10-10 | 3 | Delayed mostly by the transition to GPLv3 and a few unexpected regressions. |
| 6.6 | 2006-11 | 2006-12 | 2006-12-18 | 6.5 | (none) | (none) | 2006-06-21 |
| 6.4 | 2005-11 | 2005-11 | 2005-12-01 | 0 | |
| 6.3 | 2004-11 | 2004-11 | 2004-11-09 | 0! | We rock! |
| 6.2 | 2004-08 | 2004-07-30 | 2004-07-30 | 0 | Went very
smootly (provided you ignore that MIPS was discovered to be broken on
the last day). |
| 6.1.1 | 2004-05 | 2004-05-31 | 2004-06-16 | 1 | Kept NEWS
entries missed in 6.1. |
| 6.1 | 2004-01 | 2004-03-27 | 2004-04-04 | 2 | Branched
two months late (slight distraction). Need to ensure that only bug
fixes get committed to the branch. |
| 6 | 2003-03 | 2003-08-26 | 2003-10-06 | 2 | The estimated branch date was 2003-03-01-gmt, but in the end it was scheduled for 2003-06-14-gmt. Once on the branch, a very small list of must-have features draged things out. Adding to the fun, at the last moment the process hit unanticipated non-coding problems causing the cart wheels to fall off :-) |
| 5.3 | 2002-10-09 | 2002-12-12 | 2 | Branched on time. Released late. Too many things to cleanup on the branch. | |
| 5.2.1 | 2002-06-16 | 2002-07-23 | 1 | Scheduled too soon after previous release | |
| 5.2 | 2002-04-07 | 2002-04-30 | 1 | ||
| 5.1.1 | 2002-01-24 | 2002-01-24 | |||
| 5.1 | 2001-08-05 | 2001-11-21 | 3 | Unscheduled (human) breakage | |
| 5 | 2000-02-29 | 2000-05-19 | 3 | Too ambitious | |
| 4.18 | 1999-04-10 |
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