On Thursday, 20 April 2017 08:07:51 CEST Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 03:12:33PM +1000, John Elliot V wrote: > > Will stretch RC3 smoothly transition to stable (with an apt-get > > dist-upgrade) when stretch is released? > > Yes. In fact there's a very strong possibility you won't even need to > do a whole dist-upgrade. A simple "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" > may work, if the freeze proceeds smoothly.
This was exactly what happened to me when jessie transitioned from testing to stable. I would expect stretch be the same.