I am running out of jokes regarding the release of a candidate to a release candidate release. If at least LyX was written in lisp or scheme it would work... but for now the best we can do is (ab)use the C++ templates.
In order to maintain our record more or less predictable I am placing the the first tries for rc3 in the usual place: http://www.lyx.org/~jamatos/lyx-1.6 The svn26576 suffix is used to warn about the trial nature of the package. Please test if this builds in our supported platforms and if there are not any major bugs related with data losses. Any occurrence of these types will reset the release procedure. Finally I would like to thank all the developers for shaping/carving such a fine sculpture that is becoming LyX 1.6.0. Regards, -- José Abílio