Release date
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We plan to release on 2023-06-10.

If you want to celebrate it, please consider attending a Debian
release party, or hosting your own! See
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBookworm for more information.
(Note: the release process typically takes the whole day and the
release isn't done until the early hours of Sunday UTC.)


Full Freeze date
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With the release date set, it's time to announce the Full Freeze [1]
date: Wednesday 2023-05-24. This means that from that moment on, every
package requires a manual unblock [2] by the release team if it needs
to migrate to bookworm. Please note that, as with all freezes, the new
rules apply for all packages that haven't migrated to testing yet (not
only for uploads after the freeze).

For all uploads, please review the Freeze Policy [1] once again to
make sure you know what is appropriate at this phase of the release.