Beta dev version showing in Dashboard

[HenrysCat]

I followed the guide below to install, but the version shown is 3.5.0.beta5-dev, is this correct? I thought the dev install was different?

docs/INSTALL-cloud.md

[Moin]

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Yes that is correct.

All versions of tests-passed branch have the -dev suffix at the end. It means “this is one version during the development of betaX.”

You can read more about it in

From Discourse 3.2: adding -dev suffix to beta versions under active development

On tests-passed, starting with 3.2.0.beta1-dev, Discourse core version numbers will include a -dev suffix to indicate that they’re not the final ‘release’ versions of a beta. This suffix doesn’t appear in the UI, so this is a technicality which will have no impact on the vast majority of people. For the technical details, see below: In the beta series for Discourse 3.1 and below, our versioning strategy was to ‘release’ a beta, and then leave the version number in tests-passed exactly the sam…

Understanding Discourse release channels

This guide explains the different types of Discourse releases and how different channels are used for updates. Required user level: All users Release channels Discourse has four primary release channels, each serving a different purpose: main, tests-passed, beta, and stable. The default channel used when installing a production version of Discourse is tests-passed. The naming conventions used by Discourse differ a bit from other software companies: main O…