Hi, we currently announced 2009.08-beta1 [1]. Our time plan (if we don't get any showstopper) to RC and final release is: 2009.08-RC on Monday, 3. August 2009 2009.08 Final latest on 9. August 2009 I've build a iso with testing repo enabled to see if we get any problem with packages current in testing but maybe on the release in core/extra - but all seems to work fine. But if you plan other transitions before release date (or if you see anything what could break the images) please hold them back until the release is done. Or leave a reply to us... Open issues for the release which belongs to core/extra packages: ------------- FS#15378 - mkinitcpio does not load usb module Also we wait on initscripts 2009.07-3 (and related packages) enter to core to solve a problem witch hwclock syncing during liveCD shutdown. Regards Gerhard [1] Oh, mail isn't still in mailarchive... See later http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2009-July/thread.html