The release date for Bioc 3.19 is tentatively scheduled for Wednesday April 24th. The 3.19 release will use R-4.4. With R dependency 4.4, these deadlines are subject to change once CRAN announces their official 4.4 release date. We are releasing this tentative schedule to allow for adequate planning by package maintainers. The following highlights important deadlines for the release.
Important deadlines can be found on the website: release schedule
As a Quick Summary:
Friday March 22: New package submission deadline. Packages will still need to pass the formal review process to be included in Release 3.19. We will try to have at least an initial review of the package if submitted by this date. Packages submitted after this date are not guaranteed to be reviewed; they will be reviewed time pending. Package reviewers are volunteer and have a limited capacity for review.
Wednesday April 3: No API changes to devel 3.19. Devel 3.19 is considered a release candidate, and changes should be limited to bug corrections only.
Monday April 8: Current Release 3.18 Freeze. No changes will be accepted to the Bioconductor 3.18 branch after this date.
Wednesday April 17: Newly submitted packages need to be accepted by this date to be included in the release
Friday April 19: Deadline for packages to be passing R CMD install/build/check on Bioconductor builders.
Tuesday April 23: Devel 3.19 branch is frozen to create release branch.
Wednesday April 24: Release Bioconductor 3.19
Post Release: Dockers and Single Package Builder Updates, Mirror updates
Cheers, Lori Shepherd - Kern on behalf of the Core Team
