High Level Release Plan

Date Activity
Oct 21 Create stable-3.11 branch, Release 3.11.0-rc0
Oct 28 Release 3.11.0-rc1
Nov 4 Release 3.11.0-rc2
Nov 11 Release 3.11.0-rc3 - Feature freeze deadline.
Nov 18 Release 3.11.0-rc4
Nov 25 Release 3.11.0-rc5 - Release freeze
Dec 1 Final release of 3.11.0

Gerrit Hackathon

The Gerrit hackathon is planned before the stable-3.11 branch cut, from the 7th to the 8th of October at Qualcomm in San Diego (CA), focused on the JGit multi-pack index support.

Switch to Java 21

Gerrit v3.11 will support both Java 17 and Java 21 at source-code level; however, it will be built and distributed on Java 21 for encouraging users to move to the new version which offers a competitive advantage with the adoption of the ZGC.

End-to-end Testing

We plan to use the Gatling e2e test framework for Git, developed by GerritForge and Ericsson, to test the stability of the release on a production-like setup on AWS automatically provisioned using the aws-gerrit and k8s-gerrit deployments.

GerritForge has also offered its own AWS infrastructure to test the scalability of Gerrit v3.11, particularly with medium to large sized projects and in a multi-primary setup and will also use its Google Cloud infrastructure to test Gerrit v3.11 with K8s.

The Gerrit-CI has also an automated aws-gerrit pipeline that will be pointed to the stable-3.11 branch and run on a daily basis.

End of Life for Gerrit 3.8.x

Per the support policy mentioned on the project homepage, after 3.11.0 is released 3.8.x will reach end of life and will no longer be actively supported.

Support for 3.9.x and 3.10.x will continue as usual. Users of 3.8.x or earlier are recommended to upgrade to one of these versions.