Arno, the OPNFV inaugural release, intends to be available on the 23rd of April 2015. In order to ensure the release is complete and of sufficient quality a set of release candidate activities have been planned to ensure iterative review and improvement of Arno, tools and documentation during the final month of development.

• Target system state fully defined and frozen (https://wiki.opnfv.org/get_started/get_started_system_state and https://wiki.opnfv.org/pharos/pharos_specification)
• Common components (puppet manifests) for "OPNFV-INSTALLATION and MAINTENANCE" phase available in "common" directory (and below) of the genesis repository

• Code complete (common components frozen, all functionality in place - "OPNFV-INSTALLATION and MAINTENANCE" phase)
• Scripts for automatic build of a bootable disk ISO image
  (bootable disk ISO image is installed to the "jumphost"; from there, the installation of the other nodes of the system is driven)

• Automatic build and install on LF hardware PODs
• Tempest and Robot test frameworks available on LF hardware

• Automatic testing on LF hardware fully functional (FuncTest supplied tests; test infra (tempest, robot) setup independently from installer)

• final release cut

• Release package available (tested and verified)
  • bootable disk image(s) (ISO) (BGS supplied)
  • Documentation (user guide - describing key functionality supplied, installation procedure, target system state - BGS supplied)
  • Documentation (test scenarios that release complies with - FuncTest supplied)
  • Documentation (hardware guide - Pharos supplied)

• official release