It should be possible to publish release candidates

[buep]

To service the users, and allow for fast feedback we should have a way to publish release candidates.

They must be build from our pipeline. It must be the same binary, in case we chose to release it. It should be easy for the users to install release candidates and upgrade/downgrade between them and real releases.

For our Jenkins plugins, we allow the users to download a plugin .hpi file from the steps in our pipelines. Something similar, or a scoop/chocolatey release(stable?) repository.

[groenborg]

I actually think is is quite easy considering we probably only have to change naming in our releases to publish betas. Some investigation here is needed