Hardy Heron Release Schedule
Follow @ggarronHardy Heron is going to be the new LTS (Long Term Support) Ubuntu version.
It will come after Gutsy Gibbon, which is still in Beta version, and will be release this October, and it is specifically this October when the Schedule of Hardy Heron Starts.
Here is its Calendar
October 2007
October 25th - Toolchain Uploaded
November 2007
November 1st - Development Summit
November 8th - Canonical AllHands
November 22nd - Specifications must be finalized, Translations exported from LP
November 29th - Alpha 1
December 2007
December 13th - DebianImportFreeze ,Remaining upstream merges completed, Rebuild Test
December 20th - Alpha 2
January 2008
January 10th - Alpha 3
January 24th - Developer Sprint
January 31st - Alpha 4
Feburary 2008
February 14th - FeatureFreeze,UpstreamVersionFreeze ,ArtworkDeadlineOne,UVF Universe,Rebuild Test, Upgrade Testing begins
February 21st - Alpha 5
February 28th - ArtworkDeadlineTwo,NewPackagesFreezeUniverse
March 2008
March 13th - StringFreeze
March 20th - BetaFreeze,FeistyArtworkFinalDeadline
March 27th - BetaRelease
April 2008
April 10th - NonLanguagePackTranslationDeadline,KernelFreeze, Rebuild Test
April 17th - ReleaseCandidate,LanguagePackTranslationDeadline
April 24th - FinalRelease
This will a very important release, as it will be the replacement for Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake