I noticed that every now and then my Discourse site send me an email telling that a new version is available to install, but every time the version is “x.y.z.beta something”, so I’d like to know: is Discourse always some “beta” version? Is it good to install in a production environment (i.e. to serv…

You can’t swap to stable until it catches up. Discourse doesn’t support downgrades. A better question is: why would you want to? Stable isn’t as widely used, the focus for development is on tests-passed. Assuming you aren’t blindly upgrading a production site, and are testing each upgrade prior t…

[image] Stephen: the focus for development is on tests-passed. Sorry, this must be somekind language barrier matter-issue, but does the focus mean development of Discourse itself and how branches are build everybody else is doing mostly development of Discourse First one means that product…

[image] Jagster: First one means that production sites that have focus to functional and stable forum should use test-passed . We run tests-passed in production on our hosting. It’s 100% meant for production sites. [image] Jagster: But when the first guess is right, why there is stable -…

To that I’d add “want to wait 6 to 8 months for something that is a bug but not deemed a security risk to be fixed?” Use stable.

That’s not entirely true. There are many bugfixes backported to stable.

Well, that’s quite true I’m sure. But hypebole is the best thing ever!

[image] RGJ: There are many bugfixes backported to stable. True, the showstopper ones. Smaller bugs are not.

It would be good if there were a choice in the general instructions, sort of like LibreOffice download choices or Debian. I am hosting the site on DO but my co-owner was originally from discoursehosting.net as a subdomain, and he sees all of this maintenance and say “Why don’t we just use discours…

[image] bksubhuti: … my co-owner was originally from discoursehosting.net as a subdomain, and he sees all of this maintenance and say “Why don’t we just use discourse hosting?” I told him that we have our own name, server, higher tier plugins (like emoji likes and google sign in), and other thi…

The original issue was to request provide a stable build option in the github install instructions . I see that you provide stable releases for your customers. Perhaps you can kindly explain how to clone and install a stable release? That was also my original question. As a small and semi-private…

Is Discourse always in "beta"?

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Canapin (Coin-coin le Canapin) May 9, 2023, 2:07pm 24

The replies in this topic have been summarized in a single post as a proper explanation: Understanding Discourse release channels

Topic		Replies	Views
Need a better way to explain what branch to be on, why, and what happens Support	15	1745	September 30, 2022
Enable updates only to a given release UX	28	3251	January 25, 2017
Which branch of Discourse is used internally? Development	15	2142	December 2, 2017
Stable branch compatibility with discourse_docker and plugins Self-hosting stable	37	2704	February 3, 2024
Stable Release Channel Support	6	2324	June 17, 2020

Is Discourse always in "beta"?

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