Fixed release schedule scrapped (old schedule restored)
17 September 2026
Article published by: Leah Rowe
Date of publication: 17 September 2026
See previous 6-month-release-schedule: revisions. - This is now scrapped. We will continue to make regular releases, but no longer on a fixed schedule. Thus, we have restored the old schedule in which we still usually did at least one (often more than two) releases each year.
Libreboot attempted to have a fixed release schedule; one release in January and one release in December, each year. The problem with a fixed schedule is that there’s sometimes not a lot of work to do, or I don’t feel like doing as much, but then I’ll have burst periods in which lots of work gets done. Thus, the older and more flexible release schedule was much better.
The next release of Libreboot is expected at some time during 2027 (today’s date is 17 September 2026), after having already skipped the scheduled June 2026 release; December 2026 is also being skipped. Libreboot 26.10 was released in October 2026! - and another one probably planned for December 2026. Libreboot is rapidly expanding and moderning in recent development; we added EDK2 payload support for example, which can boot modern operating systems (including Windows).
That being said, I am considering whether or not to implement a more automated build-release test. I regularly run - too much work. The nature of Libreboot is such that use of a CI is ill-advised; the ./mk release in lbmk to test changes, because I try to ensure that the master branch is always stable. I could perhaps implement a CI, and do nightly or weekly snapshot builds. In other words, Libreboot could become a rolling release distro with intermittent stable releases../mk test feature stress-tests Libreboot’s build process just fine, and I run this regularly.
Yes. No more six-month schedule. Libreboot’s new schedule is: release whenever I feel like it. I sometimes don’t even know I’m doing one, I just wake up and do one. That is Libreboot’s natural schedule, and so shall it remain.
What hasn’t changed?
Release codenames will still be used! That was another feature of the six month schedule; the current release is codenamed Magnificent Max. This was inspired by my time back in the day when I used Ubuntu releases, or laughed at some of Fedora’s whacky release codenames (Beefy Miracle!)
The YY.MM release version numbers will also stay in place, for the next release. For example, a July 2027 release would become Libreboot 27.07 Magnificent Max, and that codename is definitely not going to be the next release codename, but it would probably be a good one.
In summary
Nothing has changed. This new release schedule is exactly what Libreboot has always used since it started. A release is out when it’s ready, which will be on average every 6-24 months (usually about 8-16 months).
The fixed schedule was a temporary, now-failed experiment. We once again use our previous, much more flexible schedule of release-when-ready, the way it should be.
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