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 Date	Cutoff Date	Release Version	Executor	Approver	Release Coordinator	Time Taken

Release Date	Cutoff Date	Release Version	Executor	Approver	Release Coordinator	Time 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		23.1.0	Gary			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		23.1.1	Gary	Justin	Gary	90 minutes, cut from main.
March 22	March 17	23.1.2
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/23.4.0	Justin/Gary
May 17
May 31?	May 25	23.4.1 https://github.com/hyperledger/besu/issues/5518	Simon
Jun 21	Jun 16	23.4.2	Stefan	Gabriel T	Stefan
Jul 12	Jul 7	23.4.3
Jul 26	Jul 21	23.7.0 ?

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