There have been two leaked builds of Android 2.2 AKA FroYo since it was announced last month. The first came literally days after the announcement, leading to speculation that indeed it was not a final build of the OS. This was soon confirmed. Then, for weeks, we heard nothing from Google.

Last week, a new build, FRF72, was leaked into the wild, but was merely a patch to update small bugs in the initial test build.

Today, in a Nexus One support forum wherein thousands of people are protesting the long wait for the OTA update, Ry Guy, a Google employee, attempted to tame the wild herd:

Hi all,

Thanks for the responses!

Just wanted to give a heads up that the build floating around is not the official Froyo release. You will get an automatic notification when we OTA the build, no need to manually download it. You will still get the automatic notification if the official release is a newer version than the one you have, so don’t sweat…but I’d highly recommend waiting for our official release :)

We are striving hard to OTA the build to you ASAP, thanks for your patience!

Gaurav

Indeed, not a lot to go on in terms of a specific time and date, but it is nice to know that, despite the current build of FroYo being quite fast and stable, Google is still aiming to improve the user experience.

(via Android Police)