The code freeze for the Drupal 4.2.0 release has begun. As of now, no new features or functionality is being added. Just bugfixes. Though, in the initial stage of the code freeze, documentation updates, usability improvements and performance improvements are still being accepted.

If you have a Drupal site and you want to help testing, consider upgrading now. Anyone who doesn't have an old site and wants to help out can of course setup a Drupal site from scratch. Drupal has been remarkably stable during the past weeks so everything should be well.

The release candidate is available at:

http://www.drupal.org/drupal/drupal-4.2.0-rc.tgz

The release candidate is repackaged twice a day so make sure to download a fresh copy every now and then to get the latest fixes.

For bug reports, use the project pages. For support, consult the documentation, the mailing lists, the support forums or add a comment below.

After the initial stage of the code freeze, the DRUPAL-4-2-0 branch will be created so we can continue active development. In the mean time we ask the Drupal contributors to focus on the pending bugs as well as the documentation.

If you are the maintainer of a theme or module in the contributions repository, this would be the time to ensure it works with the Drupal 4.2.0 release candidate.

Happy testing.