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balding_ape wrote: I'm not really sure I'd want to inject beta software into any production environment. It's just borrowing trouble, and I have enough of that already.

This board is a live environment. Seems to work just fine.

What will be the advantages of Beta? Seems I have read that it still won't be recomended for a live site and that there will not be an upgrade script.
Just a notch closer to something usable?

A date is not really neccessary. Just some sort of progress report as to what is remaining and a vague idea of the time required would be very nice for those of us obsessed with getting our sites upgraded.

Though obviously not linear, less bugs would seem to be more favorable for a timely release.

Per mister SHS' Our mighty little bear has taken some time out to invade OSUOSL, whilst phpBB3 "Olympus" CVS has since received over 600 bug reports since the 19th of March, with nearly as many already quashed to bring you all the public phpBB3 "Olympus" Beta1 in the not too dist...

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Yep

The rational is great. The reality is that many users will complain. Hopefully someone can come up with a better solution.

Very annoying.

Moving the data is trivial. Knowing which data to put where is not so trivial.