antiX 23 release date?

[Member blur13]

Hi!

Debian 12 “bookworm” is to be released on the 10th of june. Any projection of a release date for antiX 23?

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blur13 wrote:

Hi!

Debian 12 “bookworm” is to be released on the 10th of june. Any projection of a release date for antiX 23?

First, an important comment: I am a moderator and a long time follower and user of antiX so I am familiar with the typical history, but * I am not the authority, nor do I have any right, vote or say other than a simple opinion*.

With that out of the way, history has shown that in most instances antiX is ready for release very near the date of the Debian release. I remember one case in which Debian was very near release except for an issue with a single architecture. Turned out the architecture wasn’t commonly in use anymore and Debian later dropped it. Given that was the only reason for the delay, antiX released before Debian, which was in their 2nd. 3rd or fourth release candidate so it was rock solid.

Saying that, if Debian releases promptly we’ll probably release around the same time, but if they have a delay that doesn’t impact us and all matters pertinent to antiX are resolved we could release any time our own defects and issues have no blocked issues or unresolved conflicts.

My wild guess is we’re almost there so a June release or thereabouts is very reasonable. I’ve been having no issues with my antiX 23 Beta 1 build for months but I admit that my typical use cases, other than the fact that I have tested on four different devices, is pretty basic.

Anyway this is all my personal opinion and nothing more…

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I found this today; been available for a week or two now:

Debian 12 bookworm – release planned for 2023-06-10. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html

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Installing Debian GNU/Linux 12 for amd64

Good news! More evidence that the Debian 12 Bookworm release is imminent – they already have a solid manual available – see the following reference
https://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.amd64/index.html

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According to this page there are still a lot of release critical bugs, though many of them have been identified and quite a few have fixes either in place or in progress.

https://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/

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The following comes from copied portions of the following
link: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html

Release date
============

We plan to release on 2023-06-10.

If you want to celebrate it, please consider attending a Debian
release party, or hosting your own! See
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBookworm for more information.
(Note: the release process typically takes the whole day and the
release isn’t done until the early hours of Sunday UTC.)

Full Freeze date
================

With the release date set, it’s time to announce the Full Freeze [1]
date: Wednesday 2023-05-24. This means that from that moment on, every
package requires a manual unblock [2] by the release team if it needs
to migrate to bookworm. Please note that, as with all freezes, the new
rules apply for all packages that haven’t migrated to testing yet (not
only for uploads after the freeze).

For all uploads, please review the Freeze Policy [1] once again to
make sure you know what is appropriate at this phase of the release.

The final weeks up to the release
=================================

In the last week prior to the freeze, testing will be completely
frozen and only emergency bug fixes will be considered in this period.
Please consider Sunday 2023-05-28 at 12:00 UTC the absolute last
moment for submitting unblock requests for bookworm.

Changes that are not ready to migrate [3] to testing at that time will
not be included in bookworm for the initial release. However, you can
still fix bugs in bookworm via point releases if the changeset follows
the rules for updates in stable.

Upgrade testing
===============

If you are in a position to carry out upgrade testing from bullseye to
bookworm in the field, now is the time to do so and send your feedback
as a bug report against the “upgrade-reports” pseudo-package.

Release notes
=============

Please ensure that any information about your packages which should
form part of the release notes is prepared in plenty of time to allow
for review and translations. Release notes coordination happens in the
BTS in bugs filed against the “release-notes” pseudo-package and in
merge requests on salsa [4].

For the release team,
Paul

[1] https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html#full
[2] please use $(reportbug release.debian.org) to get the tags and
template right
[3] The testing migration excuses must not mention *blocked* (due to
dependency issues, CI or piuparts failures or other reasons). It is
acceptable if the required age has not been reached at this time.
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/ddp-team/release-notes/

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