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The Release Engineering of 4.3BSD .AU Marshall Kirk McKusick .AU Michael J. Karels .AI Computer Systems Research Group Computer Science Division Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, California 94720 .AB This paper gives a brief overview of the release engineering techniques used during the release of the 4.3BSD UNIX\(dg .FS \(dgUNIX is a registered trademark of AT&T in the US and other countries. .FE operating system. It describes the approach that a small group of people can use to develop and integrate a large software system. It then describes the three step methodology used to engineer a clean, correct, and coherent release. .AE