Release candidate, or RC, is used to identify software that is nearing the end of its development cycle. After the beta testing stage, a release candidate is seeded to developers to confirm the absence of significant bugs before it is released to manufacturing or commercial distribution.[1][2]
A release candidate, referred to as going "silver", is the stage in which the code is frozen and any remaining non-critical bugs are noted, before release to manufacturing (RTM), referred to as going "gold", in which the software is cleared for release.[3]
References
- ↑ Release candidate, PC Magazine. Accessed 2022-01-21.
- ↑ Golden Master (GM), Techopedia. Accessed 2020-05-19.
- ↑ Golden Master, The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary. Accessed 2020-05-19.
External links
- Apple Developer Program at Apple
- Developer World at Apple Developer World (archived 1997-01-02)
- Software release life cycle: Release candidate at Wikipedia
- release candidate at Wiktionary