| Date | Deliverable | Owner | Status/Comment |
| 11/26 |
| | Solicit initial COO Update (features, contributors) | Release Manager/Team Leads | request sent on 11/28 |
| 11/30 |
| | Send final COO Update request | Team Leads | 12/10, Final updates sent to Release Services |
| | Generate License Updates | Project Manager | 12/10, license updates documented. |
| 12/10 |
| | Function freeze (midnight); All function delivered, unit tested and documentation updated. (no changes that break others, such as; project renames, API changes, API contract breaks | All | Complete |
| | Send COO Update for Executive approval | Release Manager | complete |
| 12/11 |
| | Manual tests documented on the development web of the wiki | Team Leads | Complete |
| | Code freeze (midnight), Only build breaking defects go into trunk, other fixes (such as code hygiene changes) not allowed | All | Complete |
| | verify available archive space | Infrastructure Lead | Complete |
| 12/12 |
| | Branch M2 in SVN (6:00 AM Eastern) | Build Lead | Complete |
| | milestone build scripts | Build Lead | Complete |
| | Assign Manual test to developers | Lead Engineer | Complete |
| | Begin Testing | All | Test Results |
| 12/13 |
| | Test | All | Test Results |
| | Document New Features for M3 | Team Leads | Complete |
| | Create directories for M3 downloads on gpfs | Build Lead | Complete |
| | Setup license click-through files in CLI download directories | Infrastructure Lead | Complete |
| 12/14 |
| | Final build at Noon | Build Lead | Complete |
| | Deliver Final build to projectzero.org. | Infrastructure Lead | Complete |
| | blog/forum/wiki/spotlight announcements | Lead Engineer | Complete |
| | downloads counter script updates | Infrastructure Lead | Complete |
| 12/17 |
| | Create next milestone wiki page | Release Manager | Complete |
| | Update wiki Download page to include M3 | UE Lead | Complete |
| | Update JavaDoc links to M3 | Build Lead | Complete |
| 12/19 |
| | Create Document web for milestone | Infrastructure Lead | Complete |
| | Confirm M3 bugs have been verified or moved to M4 | Release Manager | Complete |
| | Clean up M3 branches | All | Complete |
| | Lessons Learned | Release Manager | NA |