20.10 announced as released but only the beta is available

[J. Paul Bissonnette]

On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:11:07 +0200
Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 22.10.2020, 14:52 +0100 schrieb Ian Bruntlett:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The subject line pretty much says it all....
> > 
> > Went to http://releases.ubuntu.com/groovy/ and could only find the
> > beta...
> >   
> 
> ... as every 6 months (repeating that twice a year since 15 years ...
> :) )
> 
> once https://ubuntu.com/ shows the announcement or the
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce
> mailing list shows it, it is out ... 
> 
> not before ... and even if you see something else than beta on
> releases.ubuntu.com it does not mean it is out before the announcement
> hits the lists and the website (in fact downloading from there prior
> to announcement will delay the release because it slows down the
> mirroring process) only once all images went through the whole QA
> proecess and all mirrors have been propagated with the release images
> the announcement will go out... 
> 
> currently all images are being re-spun due to a last minute issue
> found with alsa, once these are QAed and mirrored to all download
> locations, the release will be announced ... just be patient ;)
> 
> also, if you do not want to wait alone, there is the #ubuntu-release-
> party IRC channel on freenode.net where people hang out waiting ...
> 
> ciao
> 	oli
> 

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2020-October/000262.html