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OpenVINO Release Management

The process described below reflects the approach to managing OpenVINO releases.

Release Milestones

• Planning
• Execution (development of new features)
• Stabilization (Feature Freeze, Code Freeze milestones)
• Validation
• Distribution

Planning

This phase takes 2-4 weeks and involves scoping the backlog, prioritizing it, analyzing, and making commitments by developers for timelines specified by the release manager.

Execution (development of new features)

• OpenVINO Contributing Guide
• Code Contribution Guide
• OpenVINO First Good Issue

Stabilization (Feature Freeze, Code Freeze milestones)

• Feature Freeze: This milestone ensures that no new features are added to the software after a certain point. This allows the development team to focus on stabilizing and refining the existing features, fixing bugs, and improving performance without the risk of introducing new issues.
• Code Freeze: This milestone marks the point where no new code changes are allowed except for critical bug fixes. This helps in ensuring that the final product is stable and reliable, as it minimizes the risk of last-minute changes that could introduce new bugs or instability.

Release Validation

• This is a continuous process executed on a regular basis with cadence based on testing type: nightly, bi-weekly, weekly.
• After Code Freeze, the testing team can perform final regression testing to ensure that recent changes have not introduced new bugs and that the software meets the required quality standards.

Distribution

• OpenVINO has different types of build distribution: Regular releases, Long-Term Support, Pre-release releases, Nightly builds. Read more here: OpenVINO Release Policy
• Different distribution channels are supported. Explore different options here: OpenVINO Download

Commits

• 3c20397 [GPU] support [num_group, N, group_size] weights layout for FullyConnectedCom...
• 8f0a334 [PyTorch] Convert exported masking with decoder-side vmap lowering (#39283)
• c3d58b4 [GGUF] Preserve packed ternary weights and expose GPU fusion patterns (#39081)
• fc310be Support dilation attribute for PagedCausalConv1D (#38634)
• 1aef8e8 [NPUW] Fix conflicting attention mask detection for nested Select SWA masks (...
• 02cf6ee [OVC] Preserve example metadata for TorchScript input aliases (#39103)
• bfda04e [CPU] Preserve dynamic Loop memory handles across inference (#39002)
• a3562d4 [GPU] Fix fused-op column index in gemm_mmad_int8_slm (#39278)
• e1e8e00 [GPU] Protect binary_mul_inplace buffer alias from memory pool reuse (#39135)
• b3a4e0e [CPU] Fix avx10.2 tests for NVL (#38678)
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