Is it possible to upgrade Discourse up to a number of commits in the version?

[DeanMarkTaylor (Dean Taylor)]

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Configure a supported tracking branch to get Discourse software updates

This guide describes how to change tracking branch for your Discourse instance, which determines how frequently updates are available to deploy and how you receive notifications about these updates. Supported branches tests-passed Tracking tests-passed is the recommended default to stay up to date with the bug fixes and remain compatible with the latest plugin versions. When a new commit is pushed to the main branch, our build server automatically runs all our tests agai…

You could try using the version (commit ID) found either on github or in your development page source…

So viewing the source of this page currently:

<meta name="generator" content="Discourse 1.6.0.beta7 - https://github.com/discourse/discourse version b624c5cc9403d58d8d45125d7f70e60cddbb9ab9">

I can see the version is b624c5cc9403d58d8d45125d7f70e60cddbb9ab9, this is the ID you could try using in place of tests-passed on your staging / production.

To be clear - I’ve not tested using a commit ID - but it should work.