# "tests-passed" is now "latest"

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tests-passed-is-now-latest/384272
**Category:** Announcements
**Created:** [September 29, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tests-passed-is-now-latest/384272 "2025-09-29T17:31:17Z")
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#### Post date: [September 29, 2025, 5:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tests-passed-is-now-latest/384272/1 "2025-09-29T17:31:17Z")

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As part of our work to [introduce a new versioning strategy for Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rfc-a-new-versioning-strategy-for-discourse/383536), we are renaming the `tests-passed` branch to `latest`, and updating the version suffix on that branch from `-dev` to `-latest`.

### What’s changed?

Functionally, everything remains the same. Changes to Discourse will continue to land in the `main` branch at first, and then will be promoted to `latest` once they have passed our extensive suite of tests.

### Will this break anything?

No 🎉

Initially, we’re maintaining the `tests-passed` branch as an exact copy of `latest`. That means that any systems/configs which are hard-coded to `tests-passed` will continue to work as before.

The default for the [standard install](https://meta.discourse.org/t/142537?silent=true) has [been updated](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_docker/pull/1002) to use `latest`. That will automatically take effect on your next container rebuild. If you’ve manually specified `version: tests-passed` in your `app.yml`, then you should update it to `version: latest`.

In the future, we plan to introduce an admin warning for anyone that’s still referencing `tests-passed`, so that we can ensure everyone is using the new name, and then drop the old branch completely. That’s likely to happen in a few months, after the the rest of [the new versioning system](https://meta.discourse.org/t/rfc-a-new-versioning-strategy-for-discourse/383536) has been finalized.

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