Release candidate

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.Release candidate, PC Magazine. Accessed 2022-01-21.Golden Master (GM), Techopedia. Accessed 2020-05-19.
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.Golden Master, The Tech Terms Computer Dictionary. Accessed 2020-05-19.
==References==
==External links==
*Apple Developer Program at Apple
**Developer World at Apple Developer World (archived 1997-01-02)
* at Wikipedia
*release candidate at Wiktionary
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