Hi All,

ART will start creating FC (Feature Candidate) after feature freeze date, reason for doing it is because we want to give access to new releases to layered product teams as soon as possible. We are calling it FC and not RC (Release Candidate) because the releases are being built before code freeze and there is no potential for the release to GA. After code freeze, we will begin releasing Release Candidates as we have always done. Nightlies continue to build with the same cadence and will continue to publish the same way.

FC is basically a nightly payload (signed with the Beta2 Red Hat key) which is added to the candidate channel, it does not have any signed RPM content. Once we start creating FC ART won’t stop mirroring nightlies to openshift mirror, only after RC (Release Candidate) creation that will happen because RC is actual Release Candidate and it has all the signed content.

ART will publish FC once in a week, every friday. First FC for OCP 4.6 will appear in the candidate channel this friday.

If you have any questions or issues related to this please reach out to ART team on slack in #aos-art channel.