# Major upgrade -- best practices?

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**Created:** [August 27, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/major-upgrade-best-practices/380545 "2025-08-27T15:35:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 29, 2025, 7:16am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/major-upgrade-best-practices/380545/9 "2025-08-29T07:16:32Z")

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> [@merefield](#):
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> You are on stable presumably?

No, I’m on tests-passed. It’s true that my delay of a few days will allow some stray further commits to be added to the repo, but at the same time it allows some mistakes to have been corrected. Almost all commits, of course, are not problematic, so I think it’s a good tradeoff, but opinions may differ.

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