ITK/Release Schedule

Schedule of upcoming ITK releases

Release Number	Date
2.2	August 30 2005
2.4	November 30 2005
2.6	February 28 2006
2.8	May 30 2006

Release Life Cycle

Last period for adding classes and features

• New classes will be selected from good reviews from the Insight Journal
• New features and new methods can be added during this period.

Feature Freeze

• Increase code coverage
  • address any UNTESTED files
  • address files with code coverage lower than 80%
• Address Run-time memory issues
  • Purify reports
  • Valgrind reports

CVS Tagging

The repository is tagged by using two tags, one for the reference, and another for the branch.

Posting Tarballs

• Tarballs are posted to SourceForge
• Tarballs are linked from the ITK Download

Release 2.6

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Last period for adding classes	October 15 2005	November 11 2005
Feature freeze	November 12 2005	November 28 2005
CVS Tagging	November 29 2005	November 29 2005
Posting tarballs	November 30 2005	November 30 2005

Release 2.8

Release Number	Start Date	End Date
Last period for adding classes	January 15 2005	February 11 2005
Feature freeze	February 12 2005	February 26 2005
CVS Tagging	February 26 2005	February 26 2005
Testing tarballs	February 26 2005	February 28 2005
Posting tarballs	February 28 2005	February 28 2005