#gerrit has published their release plan for 3.3 with an expected release date on 2020-11-09: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2020-09-07-gerrit-3.3-release-plan.html
| Date | Activity
|--|--
| Oct 5 | **Set language level to Java 11 on master**
| Oct 6 | Create stable-3.3 branch, Release ‘3.3.0-rc0’
| Oct 12 | Release 3.3.0-rc1
| Oct 19 | Release 3.3.0-rc2
| Oct 26 | Release 3.3.0-rc3
| Nov 2 | Release 3.3.0-rc4
| Nov 2-6 | “Release week” (see below)
| Nov 9 | Final release of 3.3.0
| Dec 1st | 3.3.0 has been released https://www.gerritcodereview.com/3.3.html
At a quick glance:
* they will use end to end tests \o/ ( https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/Documentation/dev-e2e-tests.html )
* we use java 8, although 3.3 will still support being build with it, upstream strongly suggest to switch to java 11: https://www.gerritcodereview.com/2020-09-07-gerrit-3.3-release-plan.html#java