Candit version

[Faust]

A small question, what's the purpose of candit version? As has been released today, is version better then beta?

 

[Mouth]

Release Candidate (unsupported) means that, generally, no new features/functions will be added prior to the official Release (supported) version. It's generally only bugs that are fixed between release candidate versions and official release.

As has been released today, is version better then beta?

Yes, today's version will include bug fixes since the prior version (and perhaps minor new features/functions?).

 

[Paul B]

What is a Release Candidate?

After a number of beta releases, the functionality of the product should be complete and the rate of bugs being reported (should) slow to a trickle, allowing the development team to work through the backlog and reduce the number of bugs to a handful. We have now reached this point in the development of XenForo 1.0.0, so the time is right to produce a release candidate.

This means that the software is proposed as stable, and a period of time is allowed to verify the proposal. If no major bugs are found during that period, the software will be released as 1.0.0. If major bugs are found that are considered sufficiently important to delay the release, we will see a second release candidate. This process continues until no major bugs are discovered during the probation period for the latest release candidate.

 

[Faust]

Alright, thanks for explaining. Looks like still long way till stable version.

 

[Paul B]

Not at all - it's the final step before a stable version.

 

[Faust]

Not at all - it's the final step before a stable version.

I mean there will be couple more releases till stable version.

 

[Mendalla]

I mean there will be couple more releases till stable version.

For 2.1, there were only two release candidates about a week apart, then the final release a week after the second. So maybe 2-3 weeks until final UNLESS there's a show-stopper of a bug that comes out in an RC, which might force them to do more RCs.