Yakkety Yak (16.10) Final Beta Freeze

[Steve Langasek]

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.

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Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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> On 21 September 2016 at 10:16, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu.com> 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
> >
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