- October 18, 2017 (initial branching):
The swift-4.1-branchwill be initially cut frommaster. - Approximately every two weeks,
masterwill be merged intoswift-4.1-branchuntil the final branch date. - November 27, 2017 (final branching): The
swift-4.1-branchwill have changes merged frommasterone last time. After the final branch date there will be a “bake” period in which only select, critical fixes will go into the release (via pull requests).