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Action	Expected	Actual	Description
Initial release schedule announcement	-	20 December 2023	Release Engineers send announcement email to developers with a rough schedule.
Release schedule reminder	8 January 2024	-	Release Engineers send reminder announcement e-mail to developers with updated schedule.
Code slush begins	19 January 2024	-	Release Engineers announce that all further commits to the stable/13 branch will not require explicit approval, however new features should be avoided.
releng/13.3 branch	2 February 2024	-	releng/13.3 branch created; future release engineering proceeds on this branch.
BETA1 builds begin	2 February 2024	-	First beta test snapshot.
BETA2 builds begin	9 February 2024	-	Second beta test snapshot.
BETA3 builds begin	16 February 2024	-	Third beta test snapshot.
RC1 builds begin	23 February 2024	-	First release candidate.
RC2 builds begin*	1 March 2024	-	Second release candidate.
RC3 builds begin*	8 March 2024	-	Third release candidate.
RELEASE builds begin	15 March 2024	-	13.3-RELEASE builds begin.
RELEASE announcement	19 March 2024	-	13.3-RELEASE press release.
Turn over to the secteam	-	-	releng/13.3 branch is handed over to the FreeBSD Security Officer Team in one or two weeks after the announcement.