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No Ubuntu 7.04 Release Candidate?

April 13, 2007 on 2:40 am | In Ubuntu |

I was expecting a Release Candidate for Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn to be made available yesterday (Thursday), a week before the release of the final version, but apparently the jump has always been from Beta straight to Final just less than a month later and there will be no such Release Candidate. Well, at least not until the final stages in the development of Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon when a Release Candidate will, apparently, be released one week before the Final release.

I think this is a good move by the Ubuntu team because, although compiling and uploading a pre-release does take a lot of time and effort which could be better spent bug-fixing or developing, it allows more people to test an almost-ready version of Ubuntu and thus iron out any final critical bugs which may remain and not previously have been spotted (which is always possible). The users of the Release Candidate could then submit feedback reports and requests to the developers to allow them to apply the final touches to the release before it is made final. I think this is an excellent approach which is much better than the current one. I’ve been running Ubuntu 7.04 Beta since a few days after it came out, and since then I’ve downloaded and installed more updates than I could keep count of. This substantial jump from the Beta release to the Final may only incorporate minor changes to individual applications but one minor change has the potential to cause major problems, and so adding in a Release Candidate will set the point for a reduction of changes and a focus on polishing the distribution before the final version is released and distributed to the public.

Bravo Ubuntu! The team have done a great job with 7.04, as you can read about here and here, and I cannot wait for the Final release on the 19th April! Make sure you’ve all got that noted down in your calendars.

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The 7.04 RC has been delayed due to
bugs discovered during validation testing, specifically problems with
certain ATA chipsets and problems with the connection status displayed
by the network-manager panel applet.

More: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-April/000279.html

Comment by Jonathan van Zuijlekom — April 13, 2007 #
Using Opera 9.20 on Windows XP
You’re a raving homosexual.

Comment by Benyamin — April 13, 2007 #
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows Vista
You’re a raving homosexual.

That’s a tad harsh…

I got a Ubuntu beta too, but unfortunantly, I’ll be off on a holiday when it get released (19 Apr, hopefully).

Comment by Gunny — April 14, 2007 #
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0 on Ubuntu Linux
Thanks for letting me know, Jonathan, and I’m sorry for jumping to conclusions - I assumed from the roadmap page that an RC release hadn’t been planned. Let’s just hope that the final version gets released on time (all being well)!

Gunny - I’ll be back at school when Ubuntu 7.04 is released (if it is released on the 19^th), so I will not be able to try it until the 22^nd if I’m lucky, or more probably the 29^th. Oh well!

And don’t worry about Ben… Remember that self-proclaimed freak I was telling you about? That’s him.

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