Release schedule - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki

This page gives a overview of previous and future EasyBuild releases, along with details on the planning of future releases.

Next release

Please release for next EasyBuild release (5.0.0?): Fri 31 May 2024

Release planning

Release early, release often

We target monthly releases of EasyBuild, following a "release early, release often" strategy. New releases are usually done on the last day of the month (or one of the first days of the next month).

Feature freeze

For every release, we try to stick to a strict schedule to try and make sure we can release "in time".

The week before a planned release, we set a feature freeze deadline. Only pull requests that are open before that deadline are considered for inclusion in the next release.

Between the feature freeze and the planned release date, all the relevant open pull requests are reviewed and tested to make sure they're ready to be merged in the develop branch, and a full regression test is run to reveal any bugs or regressions. Once the full regression test passes, a release candidate is made available, shortly followed by the actual release (either on the planned release date, or shortly after it if necessary).

Previous releases

  • EasyBuild v4.9.1: 5 Apr 2024
  • EasyBuild v4.9.0: 29 Dec 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.8.2: 29 Oct 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.8.1: 11 Sept 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.8.0: 7 July 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.7.2: 27 May 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.7.1: 20 Mar 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.7.0: 9 Jan 2023
  • EasyBuild v4.6.2: Oct 21st 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.6.1: Sep 12th 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.6.0: Jul 8th 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.5.5: Jun 8th 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.5.4: Mar 31st 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.5.3: Feb 11th 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.5.2: Jan 24th 2022
  • EasyBuild v4.5.1: Dec 9th 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.5.0: Oct 29th 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.4.2: Sep 7th 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.4.1: Jul 6th 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.4.0: Jun 2nd 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.3.4: Apr 9th 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.3.3: Feb 23rd 2021
  • EasyBuild v4.3.2: Dec 10th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.3.1: Oct 29th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.3.0: Sept 13th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.2.2: July 8th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.2.1: May 20th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.2.0: Apr 14th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.1.2: Mar 16th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.1.1: Jan 16th 2020
  • EasyBuild v4.1.0: Dec 4th 2019
  • EasyBuild v4.0.1: Oct 15th 2019
  • EasyBuild v4.0.0: Sep 20th 2019
  • EasyBuild v3.9.3: Aug 23rd 2019
  • EasyBuild v3.9.2: Jun 9th 2019
  • EasyBuild v3.9.1: May 20th 2019
  • EasyBuild v3.9.0: Apr 12th 2019
  • EasyBuild v3.8.1: Jan 29th 2019
  • EasyBuild v3.8.0: Dec 18th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.7.1: Oct 18th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.7.0: Sept 25th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.6.2: July 11th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.6.1: May 28th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.6.0: April 26th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.5.3: March 7th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.5.2: March 2nd 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.5.1: January 16th 2018
  • EasyBuild v3.5.0: December 15th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.4.1: October 17th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.4.0: September 10th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.3.1: July 12th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.3.0: June 26th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.2.1: May 12th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.2.0: May 5th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.1.2: March 20th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.1.1: March 7th 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.1.0: February 3rd 2017
  • EasyBuild v3.0.2: December 22nd 2016
  • EasyBuild v3.0.1: November 30th 2016
  • EasyBuild v3.0.0: November 16th 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.9.0: September 23rd 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.8.2: July 13th 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.8.1: May 30th 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.8.0: May 18th 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.7.0: March 20th 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.6.0: January 26th 2016
  • EasyBuild v2.5.0: December 17th 2015
  • EasyBuild v2.4.0: November 10th 2015
  • EasyBuild v2.3.0: September 2nd 2015
  • EasyBuild v2.2.0: July 15th 2015
  • EasyBuild v2.1.1: May 18th 2015
  • EasyBuild v2.1.0: April 30th 2015
  • EasyBuild v2.0.0: Mar 6th 2015
  • EasyBuild v1.16.2: Mar 6th 2015
  • EasyBuild v1.16.1: Dec 19th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.16.0: Dec 18th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.15.2: Oct 7th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.15.1: Sept 25th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.15.0: Sept 12th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.14.0: July 9th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.13.0: May 29th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.12.1: Apr 25th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.12.0: Apr 4th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.11.1: Feb 28th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.11.0: Feb 16th 2014
  • EasyBuild v1.10.0: Dec 24th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.9.0: Nov 17th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.8.2: Oct 18th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.8.1: Oct 14th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.8.0: Oct 4th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.7.0: Sept 2nd 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.6.0: July 11th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.5.0: June 1st 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.4.0: May 2nd 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.3.0: April 1st 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.2.0: February 28th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.1.0: January 27th 2013
  • EasyBuild v1.0.2: December 8th 2012
  • EasyBuild v1.0.1: November 24th 2012
  • EasyBuild v1.0: November 13th 2012 (stable API)
  • EasyBuild v0.8: June 29th 2012
  • EasyBuild v0.7: June 18th 2012
  • EasyBuild v0.6: May 11th 2012
  • EasyBuild v0.5: April 6th 2012 (first public release)