GNOME Schedule

This page is a combined schedule of major events applicable across GNOME, useful for GNOME contributors/developers. Please keep this page short with links to other pages for more info. Items may be removed if unrelated, too narrow in scope, or this page just plain gets too long.

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Release Schedule

Stable Branch

The current stable branch is 2.28 (usually the gnome-2-28 branch in git).

Reminder: Only bug fixes and performance fixes are allowed for stable branches (no feature, string, ui, or API/ABI changes allowed without freeze break approval).

Freezes on Development Branch

Current freezes in place for the 2.29 development release:

Next Release

Next upcoming tarball due date:

• 2.29.3, needed before Nov 30th at 23:59 UTC

More details available at the official release schedule page.

Major Upcoming Conferences

See GnomeEvents for a complete list of major and minor events and links to information on planning such events.

Official GNOME Events

• GNOME Asia Summit 2009, November 2009, Ho-Chi-Minh City (Vietnam)

• GUADEC 2010, Summer 2010

• Boston Summit 2010, October 2010, Boston (USA)

Conferences with a large GNOME presence

• FOSDEM 2010, February 2010, Brussels (Belgium)

Other Major Events

• Zeitgeist Hackfest, November 9-12 2009, Bolzano (Italy)

• Video Hackfest, November 19-22 2009, Barcelona (Spain)

• WebKitGTK+ hackfest, December 15-21 2009, A Coruña (Spain)