The Bioconductor Release 3.18 Schedule has been posted and is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday October 25. This date is subject to change. Bioconductor 3.18 will use R-4.3.

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

Friday September 29: New package submission deadline. Packages will still need to pass the formal review process to be included in Release 3.18; 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.

Wednesday October 11: No API changes to devel 3.18.

Monday October 16: Current Release 3.17 Freeze. No changes will be accepted to the Bioconductor 3.17 branch after this date.

Wednesday October 18: Newly submitted packages need to be accepted by this date to be included in the release

Friday October 20: Deadline for packages to be passing R CMD install/build/check on Bioconductor builders.

Tuesday October 24: Devel 3.18 branch is frozen to create release branch.

Wednesday October 25: Release Bioconductor 3.18

Post Release: Dockers and Single Package Builder Updates

Cheers, Lori Shepherd on behalf of the Core Team