I have started on the announcement. You can find it on notes. You may notice that it looks very similar to the previous announcement so it needs some adjustment.

Clock is running out, testing is needed. @guiverc I am adding you in as a subscriber to this task.

I did a quick entire disk run through on vbox and it worked fine, so we should be good to go.

In T129#3096, @wxl wrote:

I did a quick entire disk run through on vbox and it worked fine, so we should be good to go.

Cool. Thanks for doing that, we (I?) should probably run through a 32bit install too.

Yeah this is the last of the 32 bit, so we definitely should do that. I don't have anything exclusively 32 bit anymore I don't think.

ACK. i've a (manual partitioning/replace partition) installing now on the heater besides me (old pentium 4/i386)
zsync of amd64 has completed, once I find thumb-drive-3 I'll ....

We got a showstopper with auto-resize in i386. sil200 escalated it to jibel and mwhudson on #ubuntu-release after franksmcb confirmed it didn't have a problem in 18.04.3.

In T129#3102, @wxl wrote:

We got a showstopper with auto-resize in i386. sil200 escalated it to jibel and mwhudson on #ubuntu-release after franksmcb confirmed it didn't have a problem in 18.04.3.

After further testing it seems that this isn't a blocker so much as it is a error message/warning issue. It has been noted in the release announcement.

The show must go on...

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