Effective Monday, August 13, 2007 , CBOT and Hosted Exchange products traded on CME Globex ^® and functionality will be available for customer testing in the New Release environment.    Included are all CBOT and Hosted Exchange futures, options, spreads and strategies, which are planned to launch in production in January 2008.  This release applies to RLC message format test data ; ITC 2.1 message format test data will be made available late third quarter/early fourth quarter 2007. 

Commodities, Dow Jones and Hosted Exchange futures and options are scheduled to launch January 13, 2008.  Interest Rate futures and options are scheduled to launch January 27, 2008.  Jade and Metal products are not included in this launch.

The new functionality to support this launch includes Fractional and Cabinet pricing, matching algorithms, new spreads and enhancements to the Instrument Creation (MO) and Security Definition (MU) market data messages. 

For complete information on the customer system impacts for this launch, please refer to the CBOT Client Impact Assessment and Quote Vendor Impact documents.