Hi Steve, Thank you for letting me know. I hope that all goes well with releasing it on Monday or whenever it's ready.
Kind Regards, Nikita Yerenkov-Scott On 25 September 2016 at 06:06, Steve Langasek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nikita, > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:15:51AM +0100, Nikita Yerenkov-Scott wrote: > > It is now the 24th, what is happening with Final Beta? Has it been > delayed > > until a specific date or what is happening with it? > > Thanks for the question. The kernel that landed in yakkety this week > caused > critical regressions for the "alternate" installer, affecting Ubuntu Server > and Lubuntu Alternate images. Resolving this issue will require a further > kernel respin, which unfortunately was not discovered until the end of day > Friday (after several respins had already been done), so there's no > possibility of releasing these images until Monday. > > In the meantime, the archive remains in beta freeze state and the release > team will do what we can to keep the archive freeze from impacting yakkety > development unnecessarily, but some delays should be expected while we work > to finish getting the beta into a releasable state. > > -- > Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS > Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. > Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ > [email protected] [email protected] > > > > On 21 September 2016 at 10:16, Adam Conrad <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > -- > > > Ubuntu-release mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > > > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > The world is filled with Totoros. > > > -- > > Ubuntu-release mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release > > -- The world is filled with Totoros.
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