The first candidate release has become available. You can download it from here or from here. Let me remind you that FinalRelease will be 10/30/2008 UPD: Short list of changes: - GNOME 2.24 - X.Org 7.4 - Linux kernel 2.6.27 - Network Manager 0.7 - Last successful boot - DKMS (Dell) allows you to use drivers from previous versions of the kernel if there is no version for the new kernel - Samba 3.2