# Ansible 2.8

- Release Schedule
  - Expected
- Release Manager
  - Planned work

## Release Schedule

### Expected

PRs must be raised well in advance of the dates below to have a chance of being included in this Ansible release.

- 2019-04-04 Alpha 1 Core freeze No new features to `support:core` code. Includes no new options to existing Core modules
- 2019-04-11 Beta 1 Feature freeze No new functionality (including modules/plugins) to any code
- 2019-04-25 Release Candidate 1
- 2019-05-02 Release Candidate 2
- 2019-05-10 Release Candidate 3
- 2019-05-16 Release

## Release Manager

Toshio Kuratomi (IRC: abadger1999; GitHub: @abadger)

### Planned work

See the Ansible 2.8 Project Board