On 12/09/2015 07:08 AM, Brian Lalor wrote:

When can we expect 7.2? RHEL's been out for about a month, right? Any beta ISOs available in the meantime?

To lay things out a bit:

1. The packages need to be built. Everyone assumes this is fairly straightforward but there are occasionally roadblocks. One example would be m2crypto (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287164) where the tests fail because of an expired cert. We bump into these, figure out how best to deal with them, and move on.

Other examples would be debranding changes which require additional investigation and patching. This is fairly common around point-release time as this is usually when new features are added or versions get bumped (gnome 3.8 to 3.14)

2. Once the packages are built we do some basic smoke testing (our t_functional tests) to make sure things work as expected, and release them to CR. Sometimes the tests need to be updated because of a package function change.

3. The iso builds generally require the most work and testing, as well as being the most time-consuming. Anaconda changed rather substantially with this release to accommodate Atomic installs, as well as adding OpenSCAP features.

This process would not go as smoothly, or as quickly without the folks on our QA team who volunteer their time, hardware, and experience. They deserve a large thank you for their efforts.

TL;DR Be patient, it won't be long now.

On 09/12/15 13:08, Brian Lalor wrote:

When can we expect 7.2? RHEL's been out for about a month, right? Any beta ISOs available in the meantime?

we should have iso media this week.

Also, technically el7.2 hasent been out for a month either, and we've had the 7.2 content available via CR for over a week :).