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freeze: v. To lock an evolving software distribution or document against
changes so it can be released with some hope of stability. Carries the
strong implication that the item in question will ‘unfreeze’ at
some future date. “OK, fix that bug and we'll freeze for
release.” There are more specific constructions on this term. A
feature freeze, for example, locks
out modifications intended to introduce new features but still allows
bugfixes and completion of existing features; a code freeze connotes no more changes at all.
At Sun Microsystems and elsewhere, one may also hear references to
code slush — that is, an
almost-but-not-quite frozen state.
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