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## Feature freeze on the 7th for the release on the 22nd
-After 7th at 23:59 (Pacific Time Zone) of each month, RC1 of the upcoming
-release (to be shipped on the 22nd) is created and deployed to GitLab.com.
-The stable branch for this release is frozen, which means master is no longer
-merged into it. Release managers can decide to include the last known green
-pipeline as a last item going to a stable branch, regardless of whether
-the feature freeze time has passed.
+After 7th at 23:59 (Pacific Time Zone) of each month, stable branch and RC1
+of the upcoming release (to be shipped on the 22nd) is created and deployed to GitLab.com.
+The stable branch is frozen at the most recent "qualifying commit" on master.
+A "qualifying commit" is one that is pushed before the feature freeze cutoff time
+and that passes all CI jobs (green pipeline).
Merge requests may still be merged into master during this
period, but they will go into the _next_ release, unless they are manually