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Date | Milestone | What it means |
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Friday, January 19, 2024 | Deadline for feature pull requests | If you wish to contribute features to DSpace 8.0, you must submit a pull request by this date. |
Friday, February 9 | Feature PR Review/Test Deadline | Initial reviews/testing of PRs should be completed by all assigned reviewers. |
Friday, February 23 | Feature PR Merge Deadline (Feature Freeze) | DSpace 8.0 is considered feature-complete on this date. All Feature PRs should be merged. Only bug fixes will be pulled between this date and final release. |
February 26- March 15 | Major dependency updates | This is a period where the codebase will undergo major updates to support latest versions of Spring (supporting Jakarta EE) and Angular. |
March 18-22 | Early documentation / bug fixes | Code cleanup prior to Release candidate. |
By Friday, March 29 | Release Candidate 1 tagged | A DSpace 8.0 Release Candidate will be available for wider testing. |
April 1-12 | Testathon | Intensive public testing of the 8.0 Release Candidate is invited. The Release Team will focus on getting problems resolved. |
Friday, April 26 | Deadline for bug-fix pull requests | Bug fixes should ideally be submitted by this date. |
Friday, May 3 | Bug-Fix PR Merge Deadline (Code Freeze) | Ideally all bug fixes are merged by this date. Code is "frozen", with exceptions only made if major issues are discovered. |
May 6-10 | Final Cleanup / Documentation | This week is set aside for any final cleanup (or very late bug fixes) that need to be applied to the code. Also used to finalize Documentation, Release Notes, etc. |
Monday, May 13, 2024 | DSpace 8.0 is publicly released | DSpace 8.0 is released for download and general use. |
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