Re: [Banshee-List] What is the latest stable version of Banshee?

[Navneeth <navneethc gmail com>]

Thank you, Dave and Michael, for you informative replies.

With Regards,
Navneeth



Michael Martin-Smucker wrote:
> 
> Hi Navneeth,
> In short, the latest stable version is the one that you are using: 1.6.1.
>  The version that shipped with Ubuntu 10.04 was 1.6.0, part of the same
> stable series.
> 
> Banshee 1.7.3 is the latest release, and it is technically an unstable
> milestone on the road to the next stable series: Banshee 1.8.  Banshee
> uses
> even version numbers to indicate a stable release, and odd numbers to
> indicate the development releases along the way.  Because of this, the
> 1.7.x
> series, which is available in the Banshee Unstable PPA, has quite a few
> new
> features that are technically in the "testing" stages.  Any bug fixes (as
> opposed to new features and enhancements) should be released in both the
> testing (1.7.x) and stable (1.6.x) branches.  Banshee 1.8 is scheduled for
> release this fall, in time for Ubuntu 10.10, and it should include all of
> the new features that are currently available in the 1.7 series.
> 
> If you're interested in testing out some of the new features, feel free to
> check out 1.7.3.  Speaking from personal experience, the Banshee "testing"
> versions are often just as stable as the "stable" releases (as far as
> crashes go), but you might run into some rough edges and unexpected
> behavior
> if you play around with the brand new features.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> Michael
> 
> 
> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Navneeth <navneethc gmail com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi. I run Ubuntu 10.04, currently and I have subscribed to the Banshee
>> PPA
>> (not the Beta or Alpha ones). Although I keep seeing version number 1.7.3
>> virtually everywhere on the Banshee website (as of this post) almost as
>> if
>> it's the version for everyone to install, the latest update that APT will
>> give me is 1.6.1-1~lucid1. It seems that I have been stuck with this
>> version
>> for quite some time while Banshee is being updated with many fixes,
>> enhancements and add-ons. I just hope that what I have is not the version
>> that was shipped with 10.04, and at some point in the near future you,
>> the
>> Banshee people, will send along a shinier version.
>>
>> With Regards,
>> Navneeth
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