Huh, I'd swear I'd seen that too, but looking at the alpha blog post [1], they do indeed say:

> The official release of COSMIC DE will debut on Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS, which will be based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Running and testing on 24.04 gets us closer to a final, polished release.

I'm assuming, but not sure, that 24.04 will be released in April, 24, though its version might just be a reference to the Ubuntu version it's based on - it would be pretty quickly after the Ubuntu release.

Although the distinction between "official release" and "final, polished release" might indeed mean that the 24.04 release would still be alpha?

[1] https://blog.system76.com/post/closing-in-on-a-cosmic-alpha