Will there ever be some stable tag released?

[viralpoetry]

Dear all, I wanted to ask if there will be some newer release - tag with a stable code base? Last tag is back from 2018 and there is no clear release procedure that potential users could follow.

If you consider some branch / tag stable and secure enough, can you mention it in a readme or via tags/releases?

Thank you for your work. Have a nice day, Peter

[PeterSurda]

Thank you for your interest in the project. The problem isn't really stability. Stability is fine, much improved over the years. The problem is releasing binaries. There is currently no working method for generating binaries for macOS. 64bit version for Windows is also broken although the 32bit one is available and seems to work ok. Non-tagged binaries are built automatically and can be downloaded from https://appimage.bitmessage.org/releases/ (appimage for Linux) and https://download.bitmessage.org/snapshots/ (windows). It hasn't been announced broadly as the infrastructure is under construction and the location may change unpredictably.

[viralpoetry]

Thank you very much for the information. Is it possible to somehow derive which commit is behind each release? I would like to use it using git pull, but I am not sure what to track. Thanks again

[PeterSurda]

The link between the published binaries and the commits is a bit fuzzy, another reason I haven't announced it properly. My recommendation is to just use the latest or build yourself.

[fgaz]

Looks like the project is being removed from distros because of the lack of python 3 support in a stable release (at least that's the reason for the removal from nixos: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/71e2b303c179e97af108b8b3a38369113fd09f9a )