news 28 Posted September 21, 2016 As of about two minutes ago, yakkety has entered the final beta freeze, with a goal of releasing Final Beta images sometime late Thursday. Due to a rocky start on this beta with landing a last-minute kernel and a few other hiccups, it's possible the actual release will happen on Friday morning instead of Thursday night, but let's aim for the Thursday release and see how we do. The queue freeze will last from now until final release in October, which means that all seeded packages will now need a spot-check and review in the queue from a release team member before they are let into the archive. As with the previous releases, we have a bot in place that will accept uploads that are unseeded and don't affect images. Don't take this as an open invitation to break Feature Freeze on those components, this is just to reduce the burden on the release team, so we only review the uploads that need very serious consideration. If you find the bot is blocking an upload that you think should have been auto-accepted, let us know and we'll sort it out. I will be spinning a set of beta candidates right now which I encourage people to get to testing ASAP for their favourite flavour(s) as they come off the line. Happy bug-hunting from now until the final release, and please do help out and test ISOs, netboot, etc, where you can and let us know what's broken in your environment(s). On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, Adam Conrad -- Share this post Link to post
