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Definition of Release Candidate

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: Before an application can be released, it goes through several stages of development.
  1. Alpha - General Testing but may be missing major functionality.
  2. Beta - Bugs can occur, but most functionality is there.
  3. Release Candidate - All functionality finished, looking for bugs to fix before releasing it.
Once testers are happy with Release Candidate testing, it can be released.

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