4.3.0 is in the making for quite a while already and it’s time to get it out there for you. Today, we are launching the first release candidate: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/releases/tag/4.3.0-rc.1
For those of you, who are new to the community, I think it makes sense to explain our pre-releases some more. Our minor releases (4.1.0, 4.2.0, 4.3.0) tend to have quite a few fixes, enhancements and features. They are all supposed to not have any breaking changes or new bugs (regressions), but of course there’s always an chance that we break stuff unintentionally in the process. We try to mitigate this risk as much as we can by
- adding as many tests as possible
- do additional manual QA in our UI lab
- install the pre-releases on our own projects - especially the Kirby site
But it also turned out to be a good choice to send you a pre-release (release candidate) 1-2 weeks before a final release. Those of you, who find the time can help us tremendously by throwing those pre-releases on any of your projects (we recommend to test it on a local version first) How do you install such a pre-release?
- Click on the link above
- scroll down to “Assets” and download the zip file
- extract it and replace your kirby folder with it.
- delete your media/panel folder to be sure that the panel assets are not cached
You can also use the Kirby CLI to upgrade to the pre-release by running
kirby upgrade 4.3.0-rc.1
If you use composer, you have to set the minimum-stability to RC https://forum.getkirby.com/t/whats-the-best-way-to-install-rc-versions-with-composer/12545
If you find issues, please let us know via Github: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/issues
Thank you very much for your help and we hope you like the new stuff on 4.3.0