Following three months of beta testing, the first release candidate has been packaged and made available for download. It contains mainly minor fixes and documentation updates. The changelog from Beta 5 is at ftp://ftp.postgresql.org/pub/source/v8.0.0beta/ChangeLog-Beta5-to-RC1.

This release does not require an initdb.

• Release announcement: http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-announce/2004-12/msg00003.php
• Mirrors: http://www.postgresql.org/mirrors-ftp.html
• Bittorrent: http://bt.postgresql.org
• pginstaller (for Win32): http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pginstaller/