The LSB workgroup is happy to announce LSB 5.0 Release Candidate 1.

Please note that the specification is not yet final, and small changes are possible before the final release.

The specification for LSB 5.0 and FHS 3.0 (included as part of the LSB release) can be found here:

http://www.linuxbase.org/betaspecs/

Downloads for the release candidate tests and SDK can be found here:

http://ftp.linuxfoundation.org/pub/lsb/bundles/beta/

Preliminary release notes can be found here:

https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/en/ReleaseNotes50

Please test these releases, and provide feedback to the lsb-discuss mailing list, to the LSB bug tracker, or to the #lsb channel on FreeNode's IRC network.