8.0 Release Plan¶
- Authors
Project Steering Committee
- Last Updated
2020-11-19
Table of Contents
Background¶
The purpose of the following document is to outline the proposed timeline for the upcoming MapServer 8.0 major release. Users planning on upgrading to 8.0 are also recommended to review the MapServer Migration Guide, as it will be updated for the 8.0 release.
Planned Dates¶
We will plan for 2 betas and 1 release candidate (RC) over a 3 week period after the code freeze (1 beta/RC per week each Friday). This will lead us to a final release sometime around 2021-04-02:
Release
Date
Feature freeze
Fri. March 5, 2021
8.0-beta1
Fri. March 12, 2021
8.0-beta2
Fri. March 19, 2021
8.0-rc1
Fri. March 26, 2021
8.0 (final)
Fri. April 2, 2021
Ticket List¶
Please see the 8.0 Milestone on Github for the latest list of active tickets assigned to the release. You can also see a list of major features to be added on the wiki.
Release Manager¶
Jeff McKenna will act as release Manager (MS RFC 34: MapServer Release Manager and Release Process), as discussed during the 2020-07-07 PSC meeting.