The &os; Release Engineering Team is responsible for setting and publishing release schedules for official project releases of &os;, announcing code freezes and maintaining the respective branches, among other things.

During the last quarter of 2015, the Release Engineering team added support for three additional &os;/arm systems: BANANAPI, CUBIEBOARD, and CUBIEBOARD2.

In addition to regular development snapshot builds for &os; 11.0-CURRENT and &os; 10.2-STABLE, several changes and enhancements were made to the release build code. Of note, the release build code no longer produces MD5 checksums, in favor of SHA512.

Toward the end of the year, much of the primary focus was centered around the upcoming &os; 10.3 release cycle, which will begin during January 2016.

As always, help testing development snapshot builds is crucial to producing quality releases, and we encourage testing development snapshots whenever possible.