During the development for v3, we released new versions to our supporters very regularly. We had 12 alpha releases, 6 betas, and 5 release candidates. In between, we constantly pushed nightly builds with smaller adjustments and fixes. A more regular release cycle helped us a lot to be more productive and avoid big update chunks that often lead to regressions.
We decided as a team that we definitely want to continue with a regular schedule after the launch. As a first step, we launched the https://roadmap.getkirby.com page, which should give you a pretty good overview of the upcoming releases and the changes we are working on.
Schedule
This is the planned schedule that we will try to stick to in the coming months:
- Nightly builds: Released daily when any meaningful changes were made.
- Patch release (3.x.y): Every second Tuesday. Only includes bug fixes and smaller improvements that donβt change existing behavior. No new features.
- Feature release (3.x): Every two months instead of a bug fix release. Includes bug fixes as well as features and smaller breaking changes where required.
- Security & regression releases: At any time (donβt have to fit into the schedule)
With this schedule, we want to be able to provide fixes to annoying bugs as soon as possible. At the same time, we donβt want to keep you busy updating your installations all the time. We hope to get into a constant and plannable flow.
Pre-releases
We take regressions very seriously. To avoid them at all cost we will be running pre-releases for every release β even the patch releases. A pre-release will be published one week before the final release.
3.0.1-rc.1
We will be starting this schedule today with the pre-release for 3.0.1:
You can see all changes in the changelog. All closed tickets can be found here: https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/milestone/26?closed=1
It would be fantastic if you could give it a quick try. As a patch release, it doesnβt have any breaking changes and we expect it to be stable.