Besu : Release Rotations 2023

A page to keep track of engineers doing Besu releases, as well as roughly how long the release process is taking. 

Release DateCutoff DateRelease VersionExecutorApproverRelease CoordinatorTime Taken
Dec 28 (2022)

23.1.0-beta

Gary

Beta - Not released as production ready. Will include EOF 

Jan 11


23.1.0-RCx1

22.10.4 was not released

Gary

start from main, cherry pick until done on 25th
Jan 25 Feb 17
23.1.0Gary

Delayed due to instability. Cut from main from Feb 8, plus a few fixes

Feb 19


23.1.1-RC1 (Sepolia Shanghai)Simon

Cut from main, basically 23.1.0 plus Sepolia config
March 7
23.1.1GaryJustinGary90 minutes, cut from main.
March 22March 1723.1.2



April 5

23.1.3 (Capella)

23.4.0-RCx ?? (including RocksDB update)





April 19





May 3 May 5
https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/releases/tag/23.4.0Justin/Gary


May 17





May 31?May 2523.4.1 https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/5518Simon


Jun 21Jun 1623.4.2StefanGabriel TStefan
Jul 12Jul 723.4.3



Jul 26Jul 2123.7.0 ?



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