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The official project focused on coordinating and improving the creation of official releases of Gentoo Linux.

Project Description
Release Engineering ("releng") is the official Gentoo project focused on coordinating and improving the creation of official media releases of Gentoo Linux and other Gentoo operating systems. It is also primarily responsible for many of the tools used by the installation process, including catalyst, genkernel, and the Gentoo Linux Installer.

Project Goals
The goals of Release Engineering are to continually improve the quality, timeliness and overall procedures for creating official Gentoo Linux releases, as well as acting as the official coordinators for creating new Gentoo Linux release media. This project is very much focused on ensuring that the initial quality of every official release is as high as possible, and that the "from CD" experience is as positive for as many of our users as possible.

Release security & signing
All release media will have its DIGESTS file signed by one of the  PGP keys listed on this page. The keys are available through the  keyserver. They can be used to verify that the media is, in fact, the media shipped by Release Engineering and not from a potential attacker. You will find more detailed verification instructions in the handbooks for each release.

New keys and changes to existing keys will be announced to the following Gentoo mailing lists: gentoo-dev-announce, gentoo-announce, gentoo-core.

Obtaining the public key

Verify the cryptographic signature

Verify the checksum (at least one of these hashes will exist)

Weekly Builds
The latest release of the Gentoo Weekly Builds is:

Gentoo Linux LiveDVD
The latest release of Gentoo Linux LiveDVD is listed on the Where to Get Gentoo and Get Gentoo! pages.

Previous Releases
Gentoo LiveDVD

Gentoo LiveCD

Documentation

 * Release Guidelines

Meeting Summaries

 * 2008.0 Planning meeting ( Full log ) ( Summary )