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Does anybody know if there is an official or estimated release date for the ASP.NET MVC framework? I'm starting on a project that I hope to have completed by mid March and it would be a perfect candidate for the platform, but I don't want to release it under a framework that isn't completed.

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Originally it was supposed to RTW by the end of 2008. That was delayed without explanation. Mix is March 18-20. I would guess that's a pretty likely time for it to RTW. According to Phil Haack's twittering, a release candidate will be out soon.

John Sheehan
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Update on January 28 The Release Candidate (RC) version of ASP.NET MVC 1.0 is now available

"The RC release is almost here. The team is doing final testing on it now" - A comment from Scott Guthrie's blog post

Shiju
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From Scott Guthries's blog:

"Today’s RC is the last public release of ASP.NET MVC that we’ll ship prior to the final '1.0' release. We expect to ship the final ASP.NET MVC 1.0 release next month."

senfo
Also of note, the MVC Beta shipped with a 'Go Live' license with limited support for running in production. Along with RC1, you should be pretty safe deploying in that timeframe, and expect minimal changes to upgrade to the full MVC.
Daniel