Revert from BETA to Stable Release and other ALPHA/BETA questions

[TheRydad]

I had a couple of questions about ALPHA/BETA releases and wantedd to make sure I am thinking about this correctly...

If I am running a BETA release on a system and I want to revert to the Stable/Production release, I just need to wait for a future Stable release and install it. Then I would no longer update to an ALPHA or BETA release to remain on Stable, correct?

I have a new 3CX install and it shows the currently installed version is 16.0.6.655. This is the current Stable release, right? When I navigate to the Update page, it is showing "New 16.0 Update 7 ALPHA" as an available update. Is it possible to hide non-Stable releases from this view? How would I know if the Installed version is the Stable release without looking it up on the 3CX blogs? This is a production system that I cannot imagine I would ever want to put a non-Stable release on.

Thanks for any guidance...

-r

 

[TBWD]

You can upgrade if you wish to, you will loose all support if you do, I recommend waiting until the stable release is out. The Alpha and Beta releases are mostly for testing and we take are chances that all will work, and report bugs to 3cx so that they can fix before the next stable release. If this is your only production system I would not recommend the upgrade.

I may be wrong but I think the only way to go back from a Alpha or Beta is to reinstall and restore from backup of a stable release.

 

[cobaltit]

I had a couple of questions about ALPHA/BETA releases and wantedd to make sure I am thinking about this correctly...

If I am running a BETA release on a system and I want to revert to the Stable/Production release, I just need to wait for a future Stable release and install it. Then I would no longer update to an ALPHA or BETA release to remain on Stable, correct?

I have a new 3CX install and it shows the currently installed version is 16.0.6.655. This is the current Stable release, right? When I navigate to the Update page, it is showing "New 16.0 Update 7 ALPHA" as an available update. Is it possible to hide non-Stable releases from this view? How would I know if the Installed version is the Stable release without looking it up on the 3CX blogs? This is a production system that I cannot imagine I would ever want to put a non-Stable release on.

Thanks for any guidance...

-r

There is no guarantee of being able upgrade from an alpha or beta to stable. If you want to play, you make a backup on stable, upgrade to alpha or beta, and if you need to revert, you uninstall and then install the latest stable and restore. That being said the last couple of alpha/beta releases did upgrade to stable just fine.

As far as knowing what version you are on, 3CX is no different than any other software. If you want to be certain, you check the version number against a known source (such as the change log). But you are over thinking things. For production systems you simply upgrade whenever it doesn't say alpha or beta (and maybe give it a week or two to let other find any bugs).

 

[JohnS_3CX]

The very first field here is the one that informs you:


So if you see the word beta under it, then you definitely know you should not install it on production.

You cannot hide the betas, they will appear there when we release one, and its usually an indication that the final release is not too far off.