9.11 Release Schedule

Release codename: Camelot

Preliminary target platforms: XBMC for Linux XBMC for Mac XBMC for Windows XBMC Live

Preliminary target operating-systems: Priority 1: 1. Ubuntu Intrepid, and Jaunty 32-bit Linux. Distributed using PPA. 2. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) for Intel-x86. 2. Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) for PPC (PowerPC). 4. Windows XP 32-bit, Windows Vista 32-bit, and Windows 7 (32-bit?). 5. Xbox (the 'old' first-generation Xbox to be clear).

Priority 2: 1. Ubuntu Intrepid, and Jaunty 64-bit Linux. Distributed using PPA. 2. Create an xbmc-dev apt meta-package for Linux. See trac ticket #4808.

Initial Alphas Estimated release date: Sometime in September Contents: 1. Codename for the upcoming release set by Team-XBMC, (the codename will be something referencing a movie or TV-show and starts with the letter 'C'). 2. Specifications must already be finalized. 3. Passes basic sanity/regression tests - to be defined by pike. 4. 'Soft' feature freeze entered (try and restrict features).

Betas Estimated release date: October Contents: 1. Feature freeze entered. 1. All Priority 1 Priority 2 bugs/issues fixed. 2. No new features or functions 3. No skin-engine changes that could affect skin compability 4. No new third-party functions added to SVN or modified in SVN 5. No build changes 6. English language file frozen (no language string changes). pike will ask all translators to translate this file. 7. Passes sanity tests - to be defined by pike. Once all above steps are done, we branch the SVN if we feel that it is good enough.

Release Candidate 1 Estimated release date: Sometime in November Contents: 1. Only bug fixes if needed before release Release Candidate 2 or Gold (Final) depending on the bug reports / stability. Note! Further Release Candidates will be released if needed with maximum of 2-weeks apart if critical show stopper bugs are found.


 * 10th of November 2009: Rebuild Test.
 * 20th of November 2009: Language Pack Translation Deadline.

Gold (Final) Release Estimated release date: TBD Contents: 1. We will try to release the 'Gold' (Final) release earlier in November but it depends how many release candidates are needed.