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Important: March release is demoted to beta. Re-relase of December
🕑 Added 2023-03-04 02:18:00 +0000 UTCSeems like the team bit off more than we could chew with the amount of change in the March release. We've had numerous reports of issues with networking and a bad hang when playing videos that we need to investigate and fix. That being siad, March has alot of goodnees (sync, unicode, file ordering, overlays) that some need. So what we're going to do is this:
March release is now considered a beta. Given the issues mentioned, if you want to still try it we'll leave it up.
The december release has been re-uploaded. While it has less features, the networking and stability have been there. That build is at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a27iyRJGmnO_eSA916ig02CtNfLAWYYv/view?usp=drivesdk
The team is focusing on the following issues that have been reported to get what is now the March Beta to a proper release quality:
- Investigating a hang which occurs after playing a video file. The hang is reported on an image, and may take several hours before it reproduces
- Fix issue with wifi that has spaces or special characters in it
- Make it easier to disable adhoc mode so that the raspberry pi network UI is usable
- investigate issue where the DNS ends up in a bad state
- Fix overlay text selections to restore ability to set font/color etc
We're going to slow things down a bit and take our time to get this right. Trying to re-release in a rush isn't going to be helpful. We'll continue to document issues as they're reported, prioritize them, and work to get this beta back to release quality.
A team never wants to do this, it's a failure on our part to ensure the quality of the release. The best thing we can do with a failure is to learn from it, adapt, and work to improve. We'll take smaller 'bites' on features in the future, and will switch from trying to release each month to align with the patreon to ensure the releases have more testing time behind them. I rushed this one out trying to ensure Februrary patreons left with a build that had the features we'd been working on, and that was a bad call. That's on me, and I'll work to learn from this.
Thankyou to all of those that are reporting issues. We're diving into them already and working on getting them fixed up.
Joe
