Joomla 1.6 BETA installer

The release of Joomla 1.6 will be coming soon and many sites will require migration to 1.6. It would be great if the Script Installer included Joomla 1.6 BETAs up until it goes final. This way Admins will be able to install 1.5 or 1.6 in anticipation for the final release.

Keep up the good work.

-M

Status: 
Closed (works as designed)

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Joe's picture
Submitted by Joe on Sat, 11/13/2010 - 15:11 Pro Licensee

We never ship beta versions of anything. If it's in the dropdown list somebody (probably a few hundred somebodies) will install it and get themselves into a pickle where they can't upgrade without disaster happening (betas are when the last of the upgrade incompatible changes happen in most web apps). We just can't put that kind of risk in front of customers who may not know better. We'd catch holy hell for something like that.

Folks who know they need to play with the beta are going to be able to install it themselves either using the other versions feature of the Install Scripts (Virtualmin can attempt to install any version of any web app it supports...you just tell it which version you want), or installing it manually for their testing installation.