# Should I be running beta or release?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 5, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950 "2017-02-05T16:41:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![jlorance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jlorance/32/67042_2.png) [@jlorance](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jlorance)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2017, 4:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/1 "2017-02-05T16:41:05Z")

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Just setup Discourse. It’s super awesome! I’m currently doing my build out to roll this out to my community; however, I’m wondering if I should be running on the Beta version that installed with the container/wizard based installer or should I be running 1.7 which is what is highlighted on the Discourse homepage?

Just curious about the distinction.

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### Author: ![mitchellk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mitchellk/32/120419_2.png) [@mitchellk](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mitchellk)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2017, 4:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/2 "2017-02-05T16:44:11Z")

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Running the beta myself, also a new user, working 100%

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### Author: ![ljpp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/ljpp/32/96506_2.png) [@ljpp](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ljpp)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/3 "2017-02-05T20:48:50Z")

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Many will disagree, including Dicourse devs, but I recommend 1.7 **stable**. You should have better things to do than upgrading your instance (= downtime) every other week.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2017, 10:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/4 "2017-02-05T22:16:30Z")

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All our customers run beta. if you run stable you will miss out on a lot of bug fixes, performance improvements, and enhancements. Only “critical” bug fixes are backported to stable so there are a lot of little bugs that go unfixed for months on stable.

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2017, 11:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/5 "2017-02-05T23:00:13Z")

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Upgrades are not that hard. The only reason they I can see to run stable is if you run any non supported plugins.

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### Author: ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/system/32/443519_2.png) [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 11:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/6 "2019-04-29T11:29:01Z")

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### Author: ![zogstrip](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/zogstrip/32/512781_2.png) [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 1:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-i-be-running-beta-or-release/56950/7 "2019-04-29T13:18:01Z")

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