Upgrading simplemachines.org to 2.1. RC 3

[Doug Heffernan]

Is there any reason as to why this forum has not been upgraded to 2.1. yet? I know that it is in the rc stage, but from what I have seen, it is customary for the forums to upgrade their community to the rc versions so the customers/users base can test it out thoroughly and help with finding bugs/security issues, if any, etc.

I was simply wondering why that is not the case with Smf....

[Bigguy]

This site has a lot of custom edits and add-ons etc. I doubt it will be updated until 2.1 is final. It's a big job to update this site.

[marcosbr]

I agree that the update is not viable.
But I insist that "not" being responsive has no excuse.

[Illori]

i believe there is a compatibility issue on the backend that has to be resolved before we do the upgrade. the server team is well aware and working on it.

[GravuTrad]

Cool, cause the wysiwyg is awfull on the site.

[Doug Heffernan]

i believe there is a compatibility issue on the backend that has to be resolved before we do the upgrade. the server team is well aware and working on it.

Thank you for your reply. I hope the issue is fixed soon. 2.1. is really great and I am looking forward to see it in use here.

[Arantor]

The official view has been for some time that only stable versions should be installed here.

[Kindred]

That is not the official view

[Arantor]

Was last time I spoke to the site team that they didn't want beta versions here for security reasons. It is a sensible policy.

[Kindred]

Well, RC is not beta....    so, yeah.

There ARE reasons why we are not currently on 2.0 RC3 here... but security is not one of those current reasons.

[Arantor]

Whatever argument you make applies to the last few years of RC though... it doesn't bode well