Planned Timeline (updated on Aug 12th)

• Stable v2.11 Branch – ww36-37
• RC1 – 16th Sep (previous 13th Sep)
• Final tag
• Target Release – w38 / 20th Sep
• Overflow week (in case multiple RCs are required) – ww39

Pre-RC1 Steps, Creation of Stable Branch

• Tag features and issue list with milestone https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/milestones/v2.11
• Choose a SOF commit on main branch as candidate for stable branch
• Testing & sign off
• Branch stable v2.xx -- depending on main stability can be one week before RC1 or at the same time

RC1 Steps:

• Cherry pick critical features and bug fixes to stable-v2.xx for RC1
• Perform FW security scan and fix opens
• Testing & sign off
• Tag v2.xx-RC1

Final Release Steps:

• Cherry pick critical features and bug fixes to stable-v2.xx
• Testing & sign off
• Tag v2.xx release
• Publish release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof/releases

Final Release, vendor specific steps / Intel:

• Production sign FW, upload FW and topology binaries to internal release folder
• Publish release on https://github.com/thesofproject/sof-bin/blob/main/HOWTO-new-release.md

Final Release, vendor specific steps / OtherVendor:

• add steps here

Final Steps:

• Declare the v2.xx release on https://www.sofproject.org/blog/
• Move any unfinished issues to next milestone