Hi all,

In one week, on Tuesday 2016-Aug-09, is an important day on the Fedora 25 schedule [1], with several significant cut-offs. First of all, it is the Bodhi activation point [2]. That means that from this day all Fedora 25 packages must be submitted to updates-testing and pass the relevant requirements [3] before they will be marked as 'stable' and moved to the fedora repository.

At the same time there is also the Alpha freeze [4]. This means that only packages which fix accepted blocker or freeze exception bugs [5][6] will be marked as 'stable' and included in the Alpha composes. Other builds will remain in updates-testing until the Alpha release is approved, at which point the Alpha freeze is lifted and packages can move to 'stable' as usual until the Beta freeze.

Finally, at the same day is also the Software String freeze [7], which means that strings marked for translation in Fedora-translated projects should not be changed for Fedora 25.

Regards, Jan

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/25/Schedule [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Bodhi_enabling [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Branched_release [4] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Milestone_freezes [5] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_blocker_bug_process [6] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:SOP_freeze_exception_bug_process [7] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/StringFreezePolicy