Release eRelease candidates for all major and minor Fedora releases (see: Fedora 4 Semantic Versioning) will be available for public testing for a period of three weeks before publishing the official release. If subsequent release candidates are published as a result of bugs discovered in testing, an additional week of testing MAY be added to the schedule per additional release candidate.

Exception: Release candidates for point or bug releases MAY have a shorter period of public testing.

Notification of Fedora release candidates will be published to the following mailing lists:

• fedora-tech@googlegroups.com
• fedora-community@googlegroups.com
• islandora-dev@googlegroups.com
• samvera-tech@googlegroups.com

The email template below will be used for announcing release candidates.

Subject:
Fedora X.Y.Z Release Candidate - <2|3|N>
-----------
Based on testing feedback [1] from the most recent X.Y.Z release candidate, the following tickets have been addressed and incorporated into a new release candidate:
# <module-1>
* <list of jira tickets>

# <module-n>
* <list of jira tickets>

Please help with some simple testing of this release candidate:
1) Download the one-click-run [1] 
2) Download the war file to deploy into a servlet container [2] 
3) Run in docker [3]  

The planned release of X.Y.Z has now been extended one week to <new-date>. Please ensure you have provided your feedback before then.
Regards,
<Release manager>
 
[1] https://github.com/fcrepo/fcrepo/releases/tag/fcrepo-X.Y.Z-RC-1
[2] [1] https://github.com/fcrepo4fcrepo/fcrepo/releases/tag/fcrepo-X.Y.Z-RC-1
[3] https://github.com/fcrepo-exts/fcrepo-docker 
[4] https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/FF/Release+Testing+-+X.Y.Z