The final freeze is out on 19th April, The stable release will out on 27th April. Is it a good idea to install final freeze and then update it to stable when out?
Or should I wait for the stable release?
Why am I concerned?
I have to setup a complete system, each and every application & package, plus a development environment. Most of the time there will be a potential issues in updating.
For a productive system, I recommend not rushing anything. Pre-release versions are not supposed to be stable and may contain many bugs.
Start testing 18.04 on a separate machine once it is officially released in a week. You should probably not consider upgrading your productive system before 18.04.1. By default, the do-release-upgrade tool will not offer the upgrade before the first point-release is out anyway.
For a development system, you could of course do it however you want. If you need it immediately, using the 18.04 beta instead of 17.10 or 16.04 for a week might be more reasonable. Keep in mind that you might encounter bugs though.
