Releases

Channels

Element is distributed on three release channels.

Stable

The stable release channel is public facing. These are the normal release downloads, and ocassional pre-releases.

Beta

The beta channel is offered to approved testers and to Patrons on the Tipper tier or higher. Beta releases are more frequent than stable releases and will contain new features that need tested and evaluated before going public. Beta builds are treated like a “proof reading” phase of the release cycle.

Nightly

The nightly channel is also offered to testers and to those on the Backer tier and comes with the will push updates every time a change to the develop branch on GitLab is made. Roll outs of repository updates happen on a nightly schedule assuming a change was actually pushed. This is the least stable channel because updates are made available nightly when code changes.

Repository

To change the repository used for Updates. Click on the “Settings” button, then select the “Repositories” tab. Custom URLs can be added under User defined repositories.