Laut Mailingliste erscheint Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3 am 10. Januar 08.

Hardy Heron Alpha 3 hat laut Wiki folgende Features:

“Xorg 7.3

The latest Xorg is available in Hardy, Xorg 7.3, with an emphasis on better autoconfiguration without config files.

Linux kernel 2.6.24

Alpha 3 includes the 2.6.24-3.5 (2.6.24-rc6-based) kernel. This brings in significant enhancements and fixes that have been merged in the last few months into the mainline kernel. Among these is the introduction of dynticks support for amd64, bringing the same power savings already available on 32-bit systems to 64-bit laptops and desktops.

PulseAudio

Alpha 3 includes PulseAudio enabled by default. Some non-GNOME applications still need to be changed to output to pulse/esd by default and the volume control tools are still not integrated.

PolicyKit

With Alpha 3, PolicyKit integration is gaining visibility in the administrative user interfaces. PolicyKit makes it possible to run administrative applications as a normal user, and have them get a particular set of extra privileges for certain operations, which allows fine grained control over user permissions and enhances usability, as well as eliminating the security implications of running the whole application as root.”

Unter der folgenden URL kann man Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 3 am 10.01.08 unterladen:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-3/

Hier noch der original Wortlaut von Steve Langasek Ubuntu Release Team:

“Hello Ubuntu developers,

The expected release date of Hardy Alpha 3 is this coming Thursday, January
10.

Based on the results of the “soft freeze” trials from alphas 1 and 2, the
release team intends to continue with this approach to alpha milestones.
Again, this does not mean that there is no freeze, it means that we are
asking you the developers to implement this freeze on your end before
uploading packages to the archive. We still need you to refrain from
uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which don’t bring us closer
to releasing the alpha, so that these days can be used for settling the
archive and fixing any remaining showstoppers.

The list of bugs targeted for alpha-3 can be found in a couple of different
places, according to your tastes:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/hardy-alpha-3
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=949

This milestone is intended to be used for tracking bugs that must be fixed
in order for the alpha release to happen. If you have doubts about whether
a bug should block the alpha, please err on the side of caution by using the
milestone for the bug so that the release team can review it. Please also
consider helping with the bugs already listed there if you have the time.

The number of bugs blocking the alpha is expected to be relatively small, so
if you don’t have any milestoned bugs assigned to you, please consider
helping with the list of bugs that are listed as release-critical for hardy
as a whole: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+bugs>. Again, please
use your best judgement with regard to the alpha freeze when uploading fixes
for these bugs.

Please also help us to get the archive in a consistent state again for the
alpha, as described on
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency>.

Finally, if you know of new features in Hardy that you think should be
highlighted for Alpha 3, let me or another member of the release team know
so that they can be added to the release notes at
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Alpha3>.

Happy New Year,
–
Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team”

Quelle: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html