1*54fd6939SJiyong ParkRelease Processes 2*54fd6939SJiyong Park================= 3*54fd6939SJiyong Park 4*54fd6939SJiyong ParkProject Release Cadence 5*54fd6939SJiyong Park----------------------- 6*54fd6939SJiyong Park 7*54fd6939SJiyong ParkThe project currently aims to do a release once every 6 months which will be 8*54fd6939SJiyong Parktagged on the master branch. There will be a code freeze (stop merging 9*54fd6939SJiyong Parknon-essential changes) up to 4 weeks prior to the target release date. The release 10*54fd6939SJiyong Parkcandidates will start appearing after this and only bug fixes or updates 11*54fd6939SJiyong Parkrequired for the release will be merged. The maintainers are free to use their 12*54fd6939SJiyong Parkjudgement on what changes are essential for the release. A release branch may be 13*54fd6939SJiyong Parkcreated after code freeze if there are significant changes that need merging onto 14*54fd6939SJiyong Parkthe integration branch during the merge window. 15*54fd6939SJiyong Park 16*54fd6939SJiyong ParkThe release testing will be performed on release candidates and depending on 17*54fd6939SJiyong Parkissues found, additional release candidates may be created to fix the issues. 18*54fd6939SJiyong Park 19*54fd6939SJiyong Park:: 20*54fd6939SJiyong Park 21*54fd6939SJiyong Park |<----------6 months---------->| 22*54fd6939SJiyong Park |<---4 weeks--->| |<---4 weeks--->| 23*54fd6939SJiyong Park +-----------------------------------------------------------> time 24*54fd6939SJiyong Park | | | | 25*54fd6939SJiyong Park code freeze ver w.x code freeze ver y.z 26*54fd6939SJiyong Park 27*54fd6939SJiyong Park 28*54fd6939SJiyong ParkUpcoming Releases 29*54fd6939SJiyong Park~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 30*54fd6939SJiyong Park 31*54fd6939SJiyong ParkThese are the estimated dates for the upcoming release. These may change 32*54fd6939SJiyong Parkdepending on project requirement and partner feedback. 33*54fd6939SJiyong Park 34*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 35*54fd6939SJiyong Park| Release Version | Target Date | Expected Code Freeze | 36*54fd6939SJiyong Park+=================+===========================+==============================+ 37*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.0 | 1st week of Oct '18 | 1st week of Sep '18 | 38*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 39*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.1 | 5th week of Mar '19 | 1st week of Mar '19 | 40*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 41*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.2 | 4th week of Oct '19 | 1st week of Oct '19 | 42*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 43*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.3 | 4th week of Apr '20 | 1st week of Apr '20 | 44*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 45*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.4 | 2nd week of Nov '20 | 4th week of Oct '20 | 46*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 47*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.5 | 3rd week of May '21 | 5th week of Apr '21 | 48*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 49*54fd6939SJiyong Park| v2.6 | 4th week of Nov '21 | 2nd week of Nov '21 | 50*54fd6939SJiyong Park+-----------------+---------------------------+------------------------------+ 51*54fd6939SJiyong Park 52*54fd6939SJiyong ParkRemoval of Deprecated Interfaces 53*54fd6939SJiyong Park-------------------------------- 54*54fd6939SJiyong Park 55*54fd6939SJiyong ParkAs mentioned in the :ref:`Platform Compatibility Policy`, this is a live 56*54fd6939SJiyong Parkdocument cataloging all the deprecated interfaces in TF-A project and the 57*54fd6939SJiyong ParkRelease version after which it will be removed. 58*54fd6939SJiyong Park 59*54fd6939SJiyong Park+--------------------------------+-------------+---------+---------------------------------------------------------+ 60*54fd6939SJiyong Park| Interface | Deprecation | Removed | Comments | 61*54fd6939SJiyong Park| | Date | after | | 62*54fd6939SJiyong Park| | | Release | | 63*54fd6939SJiyong Park+================================+=============+=========+=========================================================+ 64*54fd6939SJiyong Park| | | | | 65*54fd6939SJiyong Park+--------------------------------+-------------+---------+---------------------------------------------------------+ 66*54fd6939SJiyong Park 67*54fd6939SJiyong Park-------------- 68*54fd6939SJiyong Park 69*54fd6939SJiyong Park*Copyright (c) 2018-2021, Arm Limited and Contributors. All rights reserved.* 70