When I perform an installation via HTTP, and click the "Release Notes" button, the message "Release notes are missing" appears.
I just tried today and they are there for me. (i386 http install of 20060928 tree)
Confirmed, as of today they're back for me too. The appearance, though, is horribly mangled in places, possibly as a result of interpretation of some of the HTML through gtkhtml3. Interestingly, the level of mangling changes over the course of the install, especially at the outset (e.g. before glibc is installed, maybe?). Where would that appropriately be filed?
Still an issue with them gone as of 1002.
Strike that, I had the wrong http url. With the right url this works. Closing.