Well, John, you as a member of the IST group on phpbb.com must know about the problems that arised internally with the releases of phpBB2. Furthermore it has been stated that minor releases will have release candidates (by Meik I think), I mean public ones. However updating (a real live board) with ...
Well, I don't think this will be a real RC like all the others were. This will be more like a pre-gold release. As you may remember, there were some hints that starting from 3.0.0 every minor release would also have a release candidate to make sure there aren't any annoying obvious bugs in the softw...