On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:12:33PM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: > Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get > dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? Yes. In fact there's a very strong possibility you won't even need to do a whole dist-upgrade. A simple "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" may work, if the freeze proceeds smoothly.