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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 and
-the stable branch for this release is frozen, which means master is no longer
-merged into it. Merge requests may still be merged into master during this
+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.
+
+Merge requests may still be merged into master during this
period, but they will go into the _next_ release, unless they are manually
cherry-picked into the stable branch.