Release schedule for 24.0

laanwj commented at 8:00 am on April 26, 2022: member

Here is a proposed release schedule for 24.0, the next major release of Bitcoin Core. I’ve aimed for a release 6 months after the (planned) release of the last (#22969).

2022-08-01 :heavy_check_mark:

Open Transifex translations for 24.0
Soft translation string freeze (no large or non-critical string changes until release)
Finalize and close translations for 22.0

2022-09-01 :heavy_check_mark:

Feature freeze (bug fixes only until release)
Translation string freeze (no more source language changes until release)

2022-09-19 :heavy_check_mark:

Split off 24.x branch from master
Start RC cycle, tag and release 24.0rc1
Start merging for 25.x on master branch

2022-10-19 :construction:

Release 24.0 (aim)

If any specific dates are a problem for you, let me know.

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maflcko commented at 8:07 am on April 26, 2022: member

Shouldn’t each road block date get moved by 6 months after the corresponding road block in the previous release instead of the first road block by 6 months after the last road block in the previous release? Otherwise we’ll likely release in December, close to or during holidays.

laanwj commented at 8:09 am on April 26, 2022: member

What do you propose then? The way I had it first everything would be one month later, and the end-of-year problem would be even worse. At least we can hope it doesn’t slip too much into December now (see it as an extra motivation hehe).

Edit: Oh, I get what you mean. Sorry, will update.

maflcko commented at 8:11 am on April 26, 2022: member

Oh I meant 2022-02-02 + 6mo = 2022-08-02 and then go from there?

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andronoob commented at 9:13 am on July 11, 2022: none

Simplified Chinese (edit: zh_CN) translation (23.0, happened after release therefore harmless) seems to be sabotaged on Transifex in the way that all translated text got replaced by original English text.

andronoob commented at 9:30 am on July 11, 2022: none

Activity stream (editing history) is a nice feature. I see this feature in Electrum localization project hosted on Crowdin, which seems to be a paid feature (as well, just like Transifex). However, Crowdin advertise that they offer free-of-charge option for nonprofit open source projects, although I’m not sure what features are included in that option.

I don’t know what Transifex provides either.

andronoob commented at 4:37 pm on August 7, 2022: none

2022-08-01 Open Transifex translations for 24.0

Is that ready?

fanquake referenced this in commit 9ff6adc43a on Aug 8, 2022

hebasto commented at 8:55 am on August 9, 2022: member

Open Transifex translations for 24.0

Finalize and close translations for 22.0

Done.

https://www.transifex.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/announcements/13478/

andronoob commented at 3:06 pm on August 9, 2022: none

@hebasto Is there a way to revert the sabotage mentioned above?

hebasto commented at 6:45 pm on August 11, 2022: member

@andronoob

@hebasto Is there a way to revert the sabotage mentioned above?

My apologies for the delay with my response.

#25821 (comment)

hebasto commented at 6:42 pm on August 15, 2022: member

2022-08-15 :construction:

Translation string freeze (no more source language changes until release)

Done in bitcoin-core/gui#654.

fanquake commented at 8:20 pm on August 15, 2022: member

I’ve pushed all the remaining dates here back one week. To allow some extra time for merging additional changes.

laanwj commented at 9:49 am on August 29, 2022: member

Feature freeze postponed to sept 1 as discussed in last IRC meeting.

hebasto commented at 9:40 am on September 1, 2022: member

2022-09-01 :construction:

Translation string freeze (no more source language changes until release)

See bitcoin-core/gui#660.

hebasto referenced this in commit f79d612fba on Sep 1, 2022

fanquake commented at 10:01 am on September 2, 2022: member

I’ve now marked feature freeze as completed.

maflcko commented at 10:11 am on September 2, 2022: member

The 18th is a sunday, so I wonder if it should be moved forward by 3 days to the 15th (The day of the irc meeting)?

hebasto referenced this in commit d190003700 on Sep 14, 2022

fanquake commented at 7:32 pm on September 19, 2022: member

I’ve marked branch-off as complete (bringing the date forward to today, and pushing release aim back a day). There is now a tag for v24.0rc1: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v24.0rc1.

t-bast commented at 1:57 pm on September 23, 2022: contributor

Is a 23.1 release planned as well or is it unnecessary?

fanquake commented at 2:51 pm on September 24, 2022: member

Binaries for 24.0rc1 are now available: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-24.0/test.rc1/.

I’ve also created a testing issue here: #26175.

Is a 23.1 release planned as well or is it unnecessary?

A 23.1 release may happen at some point. However, only a handful of changes have been backported to the 23.x branch: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commits/23.x.

t-bast commented at 6:50 am on September 26, 2022: contributor

A 23.1 release may happen at some point. However, only a handful of changes have been backported to the 23.x branch

Thanks!

fanquake commented at 3:09 pm on November 9, 2022: member

@t-bast note that a 23.1 release candidate has now been tagged: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v23.1rc1.

t-bast commented at 3:22 pm on November 9, 2022: contributor

Neat, thanks for the notification @fanquake, this looks like good timing, I was in the process of updating eclair to bitcoind 23+ (https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/pull/2466)!

fanquake commented at 2:05 pm on November 17, 2022: member

v24.0 has now been tagged: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases/tag/v24.0.

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Release schedule for 24.0 #24987

2022-08-01 :heavy_check_mark:

2022-09-01 :heavy_check_mark:

2022-09-19 :heavy_check_mark:

2022-10-19 :construction:

2022-09-01 :construction: