The Release Candidate has been released! here is the release Announcement:

Today’s Topics:

1. Some appreciation for our community (Ben Collins)
2. Call for Final candidate testing (Henrik Nilsen Omma)

Message: 2
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 11:27:43 +0200
From: Henrik Nilsen Omma
Subject: Call for Final candidate testing
To: ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
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We are asking for widespread testing of the following CD and DVD images
which we are considering for Final release:

20070415 for Ubuntu and Edubuntu CDs
20070416 for Ubuntu and Edubuntu DVDs
20070417 for Kubuntu CDs and DVDs

The images can be found here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/
Please use rsync if you can.

Testing instructions:

* Check md5sums here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/md5sums

* Follow testing procedures described at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/InstallMethods

* Post test results here: https://www.stgraber.org/ubuntu/isotesting/

Please join us in #ubuntu-iso on freenode to coordinate testing.

Thank you!

Henrik

Now for the Thanking of the Community:

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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:44:05 -0400
From: Ben Collins
Subject: Some appreciation for our community
To: ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com
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I get emails and an msg’s on IRC regularly thanking me for the work I do
with Ubuntu’s kernel, but today, I’d like to thank the community.

During the last 4-5 days, we’ve hit on some extremely serious bugs in
the kernel, just before release. I think the total count was 5 major
bugs, and a couple slightly less serious ones. The kernel team, and a
few other distro team members stayed up some long sleepless nights
working on these issues. However, that’s what we get paid for. So the
community that stayed up with us on these long nights deserve just as
much appreciation, if not more.

For each of these bugs, we had at least 4 people on IRC (and some times
as many as 7) performing every trivial task we asked them to do, in a
very short time frame in order to debug and test fixes for the various
issues. It would be an understatement to say that they were key in
helping us get these bugs fixed and tested quickly, and by the same
token, get the release out on time.

My hats off to you all, you know who you are. I apologize for not having
names. I’m sure the entire distro team sends their thanks as well.

I hope you all enjoy Feisty Fawn when it’s released. It truly is a
community effort to get so much done in 6 months.

—
Ubuntu: http://www.ubuntu.com/
Linux1394: http://www.linux1394.org/

UPDATE

You cannot upgrade from Feisty Beta to Feisty RC.

you cannot use sudo $ gksu “update-manager -c” since it is for updating the release in packages. I do not know how we’re going to update to the RC! I must have to reinstall. 🙁