Hello Alexander.
The download page on the website is not up-to-date. It is referring
the last version up as when the article about the beta was published.
Actually the packages are named "alpha" because they came from the
master branch.
For other projects, we usually use a stabilization branch (creating
"beta" packages), but not for this particular version of
Linphone-desktop.
This is because the last "stable" version of Linphone-desktop is
almost 3 years old, and has a lot of issues (especially with new
mobile versions).
The current alpha (nightly) packages are more stable than the old
stable version, that's why we skipped the "beta" step (all
developments done in Linphone-desktop will be in the next release).
However, we still call it a beta in our website to indicate that open
testing is welcomed.
Currently, you can use the alpha 35 version. Ideally, you could
eventually always use the latest one (to get the latest fixes, and the
fewest latest bugs).
For instance, the next nightly will resolve a crash related to call
recording management.
Concerning the checksum part, I think this can be fixed on our side,
to avoid changing checksum if the code didn't change.
Thanks for your interest in Linphone !
Regards,
Peio Rigaux
Junior Software Engineer
Belledonne Communications, the company behind Linphone
Linphone.org <https://linphone.org/>
Le 30/04/2020 à 14:25, Alexander Koch via Linphone-developers a écrit :
Hi,
I'm the maintainer of the 'linphone-desktop-appimage' package for
Arch Linux' User Repositories (AUR).
I'm a bit confused by the different AppImage versions that are
available on [1], which are currently:
- Linphone-4.1.1-826-g0c113bb.AppImage
- Linphone-4.1.2-pre.814+6bc31c9.AppImage
- Linphone-4.1.2-pre.818+e57cade.AppImage
- Linphone-4.1.2-pre.818+eeaa0d3.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.10+6869569.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.11+3fb6cf9.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.13+8f45b68.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.14+0d3c37b.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.17+09ec28d.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.20+3c5a8c5.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.27+9b156c0.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.29+ce58ce0.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.32+f2b054c.AppImage
- Linphone-4.2.0-alpha.35+345432b.AppImage
The official downloads page [2] refers to alpha.14 (while calling it
'Beta') but there are newer versions available in that directory, the
latest one being alpha.35 as of now. In addition to that, the latest
one seems to be rebuilt daily so the checksum of the file always
changes.
So I'm trying to figure out which version I should package.
Is alpha.14 regarded to be more stable than the others, so should I
use that one? Or is the downloads page just not up-to-date and one
should always use the latest one?
Best regards
Alex
[1] https://www.linphone.org/snapshots/AppImages/
[2]
http://www.linphone.org/technical-corner/linphone?qt-technical_corner=2#qt-technical_corner
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