The MonetDB team at CWI/MonetDB BV is pleased to announce a second release candidate for the upcoming Jan2014 feature release. Many things have changed in this release compared to the previous (Feb2013) release (that's why it took so long). For a smooth upgrade I would urge you to try out this release candidate and to provide feedback on our bug tracker (http://bugs.monetdb.org). A number of bugs in the previous release candidate have been fixed. Among others, packaging errors on Debian and Ubuntu have been fixed, and a problem with slow startup has been fixed. The release candidate can be found at http://dev.monetdb.org/downloads/testing. -- Sjoerd Mullender