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Consumer Products => Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security (legacy Pro Antivirus, Internet Security, Premier) => Beta - Avast => Topic started by: demetry842 on June 25, 2019, 04:32:27 PM

Title: Wrong Update?
Post by: demetry842 on June 25, 2019, 04:32:27 PM

Hi folks.

Right now my "Avast Internet Security" was updated to version 19.6.2383 build 19.6.4546.494 But! I did not order "beta version". I do not participate in beta testing. And i dont understand why did i got this update.

Is it a mistake? or some kind of "bug"? or a joke? And how i can solve this problem?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Wrong Update?
Post by: reddyshyam on June 25, 2019, 04:41:44 PM

Hi demetry842,

It is not beta buts a stable release of 19.6 which was rolled out for update on previous installations.

Announcement will follow later today

Title: Re: Wrong Update?
Post by: demetry842 on June 25, 2019, 05:28:17 PM

Ok, it looks like i got it, an hour before release information (and this was a reason for this thread).

But for now it looks normal.

Thanks for info.

Title: Re: Wrong Update?
Post by: schmidthouse on June 25, 2019, 06:07:07 PM

This has been a general area of confusion.
The Stable version, when released is numbered the same as the beta version until another beta build is released for those on the beta channel.

Title: Re: Wrong Update?
Post by: DavidR on June 25, 2019, 07:34:19 PM

Quote from: schmidthouse on June 25, 2019, 06:07:07 PM

This has been a general area of confusion.
The Stable version, when released is numbered the same as the beta version until another beta build is released for those on the beta channel.

And it is the biggest pain in the backside and cause for confusion since they started doing this.  I really do hate this practice and have made my feelings known in the forums.

Title: Re: Wrong Update?
Post by: schmidthouse on June 25, 2019, 08:52:53 PM

Quote from: DavidR on June 25, 2019, 07:34:19 PM

Quote from: schmidthouse on June 25, 2019, 06:07:07 PM

This has been a general area of confusion.
The Stable version, when released is numbered the same as the beta version until another beta build is released for those on the beta channel.

And it is the biggest pain in the backside and cause for confusion since they started doing this.  I really do hate this practice and have made my feelings known in the forums.

+1

Title: Re: Wrong Update?
Post by: igor on June 26, 2019, 10:22:17 AM

I believe the reason is that exactly the same files (as the one tested in the last beta) are released to the release channel... which is a good thing.
Changing the version would require recompiling everything - and that may introduce problems if something goes wrong during the build; we'd basically be releasing "untested" files to the production.