Release candidates for all major and minor VIVO releases will be available for public testing for a period of three weeks before publishing the official release. If subsequent release candidates are published as a result of bugs discovered in testing, an additional week of testing MAY be added to the schedule per additional release candidate.

Exception: Release candidates for point or bug releases MAY have a shorter period of public testing.

Notification of VIVO release candidates will be published to the following mailing lists:

• vivo-tech@googlegroups.com
• vivo-community@googlegroups.com
• vivo-all@googlegroups.com

The email template below will be used for announcing release candidates.