Dates Overview

Nova roughly follows the general release schedule.

April 18: bug spring cleaning day
June 2: newton-1, non-priority spec approval freeze
June 30: non-priority feature freeze
July 15: newton-2
July 19-21: Nova Midcycle
July 28: freeze for python 3 and mox removal work
Aug 4: priority spec approval freeze
- Abandon newton specs in Gerrit that have not been moved to the ocata directory in the nova-specs repo.
Aug 22-26: final non-client library release (oslo)
Sept 2: newton-3, final python-novaclient release, FeatureFreeze, Soft StringFreeze
Sept 15: RC1 and Hard StringFreeze
Oct 7, 2016: Newton Release

OpenStack wide tracking of current progress: http://status.openstack.org/release/

Special review days