The Bioconductor Release 3.15 Schedule has been posted and is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday April 27th. This date is subject to change. Bioconductor 3.15 will use R 4.2.0. These dates may change pending release date of R 4.2.0.

Important deadlines can be found on the website and will be posted here and on the bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list. As a quick summary:

Friday April 1 st: New package submission deadline. Packages will still need to pass the formal review process to be included in Release 3.15; this deadline will ensure at least an initial review of the package. Package submitted after this date are not guaranteed to be reviewed; they will be reviewed time pending.

Monday April 11th Current Release 3.14 Freeze. No changes will be accepted to the Bioconductor 3.14 branch after this date.

Wednesday April 13th No API changes to devel 3.15.

Wednesday April 20th Newly submitted packages need to be accepted by this date to be included in the release

Friday April 22nd Deadline for packages to be passing R CMD install/build/check on Bioconductor builders.

Tuesday April 26th Devel 3.15 branch is frozen to create release branch.

Wednesday April 27th Release Bioconductor 3.15

Cheers, Lori Shepherd on behalf of the Core Team