More bits for DWN, which published some of the previous ones last week.

A release update was posted by Andreas Barth. Items discussed include the full freeze of Etch (delayed slightly), the kernel firmware issue (considered resolved by the release team), an analysis of remaining release critical bugs, and some final changes to the release policy including LSB 3.1. All developers should read the full email for details.

Work continues on d-i RC1. Everything is in place and only some building and testing needs to be done before the new version of the installer is released. Development work on etch's installer after this will be limited to bug fixes, and an update to the 2.6.18 kernel. Frans Pop posted a todo list and an updated timeline.

ARM v3 support. There was a thread on debian-arm about whether etch should support the arm v3 instruction set, used in a few older arm systems, but not supported by mono. Wookey said "Yes. I think the time has come for arm to drop v3. It might have been better to anounce this earlier, but never mind." There were no objections.