High Level Release Plan

Date Activity
Sep 29 Create stable-3.13 branch, Release 3.13.0-rc0
Oct 6 Release 3.13.0-rc1
Oct 13 Release 3.13.0-rc2
Oct 20 Release 3.13.0-rc3 - Feature freeze deadline.
Oct 27 Release 3.13.0-rc4
Nov 3 Release 3.13.0-rc5 - Release freeze
Nov 10 Final release of 3.13.0

Gerrit Hackathon

There are no official plans for Gerrit hackathon, however, the maintainers attending the Gerrit User Summit 2025, 17-19 October will be able to get together and work side-by-side at the release during the event.

End-to-end Testing

We plan to use the Gatling e2e test framework for Git, developed by GerritForge and Ericsson to test the stability of the release on a production-like setup.

GerritForge, who is also offering Gerrit-as-a-Service on Google Cloud Marketplace, will be testing the scalability of Gerrit v3.13, particularly with medium to large-sized projects and in a multi-primary setup with Kubernetes on GKE.

End of Life for Gerrit 3.10.x

Per the support policy mentioned in the project homepage, after 3.13.0 is released, 3.10.x will reach the end of life and will no longer be actively supported.

Support for 3.11.x and 3.12.x will continue as usual. Users of 3.10.x or earlier are recommended to upgrade to one of these versions.