Below you can find the preliminary release dates, and code stop dates for 17.0. Note: We will not accept any NEW feature patches for inclusion in Erlang/OTP 17.0 after 2014-02-21.

Preliminary dates for the upcoming release:

Release	erts, emu,comp	Code stop	Documentation stop	Release Date
17.0-rc2	2014-02-21	2014-02-21	2014-02-21	2014-02-26
17.0	2014-03-10	2014-03-17	2014-03-19	2014-03-26

We will focus the time between 17.0-rc2 and 17.0 on bug fixes, improvements, and testing. Therefore you are most welcome to submit patches regarding such issues and we will try our best to include them before 17.0 is released. Especially bugs introduced in 17.0-rcX.