Microsoft is working into the night on the release candidate 2 of Windows XP service pack 2. Current builds stand at 2142, a steady 22 builds on from the current 2120 build that beta testers have access to. The latest build (2142) was compiled on Friday 28th May at 12:19AM meaning Microsoft are now working overtime in order to get SP2 ready in time. RC2 has slipped from the original predicted internal date of 26th May to as late as 7th June.

For those interested in build dates and numbers:

2138 (xpsp.040522-1636)
2139 (xpsp.040524-1730)
2140 (xpsp.040525-1946)
2141 (xpsp.040526-1840)
2142 (xpsp.040528-0019)

We're hoping to see RC2 get compiled this week with a release on or after the 7th June, if RC2 gets compiled early this week then beta testers may well see the long awaited update at the end of the week. Either way there's a lot of testing to be done to ensure that any problems with RC2 are reported and that all is well for the release to manufacturing (RTM) in mid-July.


Source:

Neowin

They need to work hard on it, the last official beta release (2120) was crap, it just hung my system after 30 seconds of starting it. POS