The rumour has been corrected :

“We ‘were’ targeting October 2007 for 7.0.3, but we have run into a few snags. We are working those out and we are trying to make sure that the 7.0.3 meets our Quality Metrics before we ship. This is going to take some more time.

If all goes well, we will be posting Authorized BETA for Bonsai tomorrow. The entire engineering team will then focus its efforts on 7.0.3. We have some outstanding bugs we still need to fix and Testing needs to run through its test plans. We are shooting for a Public BETA of 7.0.3 in December.

We will then evaluate, from the feedback we get during the Public BETA and the progress of Testing/Validation, on the final ship date for 7.0.3. This will be our focus until 7.0.3 ships.

After we ship 7.0.3, we will turn our attention again to Bonsai and refresh the BETA and push to Bonsai Public Beta. That is our current plan – hope that helps everyone plan and set expectations.”

Posted by Dean Lythgoe in the NGW List.