Hi all, The next version of Bioconductor will be 3.0 and its release schedule is now up on our website:
http://bioconductor.org/developers/release-schedule/ ...and is as follows: # Bioconductor 3.1 Release Schedule This release will use R-3.2.0 (Full of Ingredients). ## Tentative schedule ### March 19, 2015 * (**R**): Grand Feature Freeze (3.2.0 alpha) ### March 25 * All packages conform to Bioconductor guidelines. * Deadline for first-pass .db0 packages to be available for developers. ### March 27 * Deadline for new package submissions. * Deadline for release candidate .db0 packages to be available for developers. ### March 31 * Release candidate of annotation packages built and posted to devel annotation data repository. ### April 2 * (**R**): Feature Freeze (3.2.0 beta) ### April 3 * Deadline for packages passing ''R CMD build'' and ''R CMD check'' without error. ### April 7 * Grand Feature Freeze (alpha): no new packages added to BioC release roster. ### April 9 * (**R**): Code Freeze (3.2.0 RC) * Bioconductor Feature Freeze (beta): no API changes to BioC. * Deadline for packages passing R CMD build and check without warning. Some warnings will be accepted, clarification on the bioc-devel mailing list. * Stop release (BioC 3.0) builds. Commits to this branch will be disabled. * Deadline for annotation package contributors to upload updated packages. ### April 13 * (**R**): Prerelease * Bioconductor release candidate. Package maintainers should limit changes to "show-stopper" bugs and documentation improvements. * Annotation data packages finalized. * Package NEWS files updated. Latest NEWS will be collated and included in release announcement. ### April 16 * (**R**): Release (3.2.0) * Creation of the BioC 3.1 release branch. Development can resume on trunk, but changes will not be part of the release. ### April 17 * Bioconductor release. _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
