ok... i did find mention of it in the gentoo forums
here is the link
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46662
hey, just what in the heck are you trying to pull here? How dare you post something about Gentoo before I know about it!
man, you are losing it... heheh
Apparently some mirrors have the gentoo stages for release candidate 4 up for download, but Gentoo's site does not mention it.
Here is the link
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc4/x86/x86/stages/
Re: Genoo 1.4_rc4 is out!.. Just not officially