I learned many years ago that downloading the program before the middle of December was a frustrating waste of time.  In particular, many of us have learned that the early transferring of clients forward from the previous year can create problems requiring you to have to delete some of those clients and transfer again later.  Give them time to work out the kinks. 

Another former All Star

You might want to bookmark the release dates https://myproconnect.intuit.com/releasedates