From d92b38cbe11866967860ea6c003e45530321494c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DanielEScherzer Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 13:00:27 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Docs: there are 4 release candidates https://wiki.php.net/rfc/release_cycle_update --- docs/release-process.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/release-process.md b/docs/release-process.md index 5d603a22f078e..9c52ffb399fff 100644 --- a/docs/release-process.md +++ b/docs/release-process.md @@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ PHP on the fourth Thursday of November each year. Following the GA release, we publish patch-level releases every four weeks, with at least one release candidate (RC) published two weeks before each patch-level release. -Each major and minor version undergoes a 24-week pre-release cycle before GA +Each major and minor version undergoes a 20-week pre-release cycle before GA release. The pre-release cycle begins on the second Thursday of June with the first alpha release of the new major/minor version. The pre-release cycle consists of at least: - 3 alpha releases - 3 beta releases -- 6 release candidates +- 4 release candidates Feature freeze for the next major/minor occurs with the first beta release. From d3a974ad98b488ed55303ca41b8d0b7f29727106 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: DanielEScherzer Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2025 13:03:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update start date --- docs/release-process.md | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/release-process.md b/docs/release-process.md index 9c52ffb399fff..6eec8ff9f6435 100644 --- a/docs/release-process.md +++ b/docs/release-process.md @@ -19,9 +19,9 @@ publish patch-level releases every four weeks, with at least one release candidate (RC) published two weeks before each patch-level release. Each major and minor version undergoes a 20-week pre-release cycle before GA -release. The pre-release cycle begins on the second Thursday of June with the -first alpha release of the new major/minor version. The pre-release cycle -consists of at least: +release. The pre-release cycle begins on the second Thursday of July with the +first alpha release of the new major/minor version (usually; count back from the +GA release date). The pre-release cycle consists of at least: - 3 alpha releases - 3 beta releases