Schedule

2013-02-01 through 2013-06-28
  Feature and documentation development (obviously ongoing, but continued during this period)

  2013-05-02 - Call for volunteers for unassigned New Feature and Improvement items

  2013-06-01 - Unassigned new features and improvements will be removed from the 4.2.0 release. Last day for proposing featuress for 4.2

  2013-05-10 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-05-17 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-05-24 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-05-31 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-06-07 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-06-14 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

  2013-06-21 - Weekly update expected for all new feature and improvement activities.

2013-06-28
  Feature Freeze
  All new feature need to have been merged into master by this date.
  Release branch will be cut on this date.
  Jenkins updated to include new release branch builds.

2013-06-29 through 2013-07-28
  Testing/Bug Fixes (testing against jenkins artifacts)
  Documentation Finalization

2013-07-29
  Docs Completion Target (except release notes and translations) (Docs may be included in the release after this date, after consensus on each addition that the inclusion does not reduce release quality).
  Release Branch moves to limited updates only (only commits allowed in would be release blockers fixes, translation updates, etc...)

2013-07-29 through 2013-08-19
  Translation Development and Integration (should be ongoing, but focused effort)
  Final regression testing / bug fixes / doc fixes

2013-08-19
  4.2.0-RC1 is created, and project level VOTE is called

Status

4.2 Release VOTE in in progress. Hopefully the last one

Features

Please visit the link New Features for 4.2 to view a listing of new features in 4.2

Improvements

Please visit the link Improvements for 4.2 to view a listing of improvements in 4.2

Design Documents

4.2 Design Documents

QA Test Plan

• QA Test plan for Cloustack 4.2 Release

Documentation Plan

Apache CloudStack v 4.2 Documentation Plan- DRAFT

Release Candidates