On 9 December 2013 15:07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:55 AM, Drak <drak@zikula.org> wrote:
> It was released and it's all over bitcointalk/reddit

It has not been released. It's queued for announcement. We were
waiting for another independant gitian build before sending out the
announcement.

Why would it be made available for download at sourceforge.net if it's not actually released? The files are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.8.6/ and people watch the sf rss feeds etc...

Seems to me like there needs to be a better release workflow. As far as the world is concerned, they are downloading the 0.8.6 and there is a lot of community buzz about it already.

IMO, to avoid that, no files should be placed online unless they are the official release.

Drak