Fedora 21 Final Release Candidate 5 (RC5) Available Now!

[Peter Laursen]

Will the beta/RC, I installed in the weekend, be upgradable to this RC and
alter the GA from online repositories orwill a fresh install be necessary?

-- Peter Laursen

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:33 AM, Adam Williamson <adamwill at fedoraproject.org>
wrote:

> NOTE: Signing of the RC5 checksums is not yet complete. To be sure we're
> testing the right bits we should remember to check that the images we
> test match the signed checksum files once they're available, and of
> course you can carefully check the TLS certificate of the server when
> downloading the images. fedup tests may require the --nogpgcheck
> parameter until the signed .treeinfo file is available. releng will
> update and close the trac ticket when signing is complete.
>
> As per the Fedora 21 schedule [1], Fedora 21 Final Release Candidate 5
> (RC5) is now available for testing.
>
> The difference between RC5 and RC4 is that the changes to python-blivet
> and pyparted that were introduced in RC1 to fix bug #1166598 have been
> reverted, as they were found to cause more serious problems than they
> fixed. As this change affects the installer, all installation validation
> tests should be run again. Existing RC4 test results for
> post-installation tests will be considered valid and transferred into
> the RC5 result pages; from now on, please do all testing with RC5
> images.
>
> Please see the following pages for download links (including delta ISOs)
> and testing instructions. Normally dl.fedoraproject.org should provide
> the fastest download, but download-ib01.fedoraproject.org is available
> as a mirror (with an approximately 1 hour lag) in case of trouble. To
> use it, just replace "dl" with "download-ib01" in the download URL.
>
> Installation:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Installation_Test
>
> Base:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Base_Test
>
> Workstation and Desktop:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Desktop_Test
>
> Server:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Server_Test
>
> Cloud:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Cloud_Test
>
> Summary:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Results:Current_Summary
>
> Ideally, all Alpha, Beta, and Final priority test cases for each of
> these test pages [2] should pass in order to meet the Final Release
> Criteria [3]. Help is available on #fedora-qa on irc.freenode.net [4],
> or on the test list [5].
>
> Create Fedora 21 Final test compose (TC) and release candidate (RC)
> https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/6031
>
> Current Blocker and Freeze Exception bugs:
> http://qa.fedoraproject.org/blockerbugs/current
>
> [1] http://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-21/f-21-quality-tasks.html
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Release_validation_test_plan
> [3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Final_Release_Criteria
> [4] irc://irc.freenode.net/fedora-qa
> [5] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
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-- 
Hilsen / Regards

Peter Laursen
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