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Latest post by nicholas on Sunday, 26 June 2011 02:54 CDT

Saturday, 25 June 2011 17:12 CDT

mneese
Mandatory information about my setup:

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Have I read the documentation before posting? No
Joomla! version: 1.5.23
PHP version: 5.3
MySQL version: 5.1
Host: rochen
Akeeba Backup Professional version: 3.3.b1

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Description of my issue:

I had 3.3.a3 version installed...then got email about new version...then checked Admin backup interface and there was no alert that there was a new version. Went to downloads for the backup files and saw that 3.3.b1 was latest available...downloaded that to my desktop...installed through Joomla component installer...sucessfully...then checked Backup Pro admin interface and in RED letters it says "update found, click to update"...
Okay, when I click to update, it lists the installed version as 3.3.b1 and the latest version is 3.3.a3, which is what i had before I updated manually...
Which is the real latest version?

Saturday, 25 June 2011 23:24 CDT

rkendallc
The current official stable release is 3.2.7. The current official alpha / beta release is 3.3 Beta 1 (3.3.b1). 3.3 a1 is the last alpha version that was released. It was replaced whe the beta was released. You have the latest if you installed/ upgraded to 3.3b1.

I will message Nicholas and let him know that the auto updater may not be pushing out the right version number.

Thanks for letting us know! It could just be a caching issue, but I'll let him know to check.

Sunday, 26 June 2011 02:54 CDT

nicholas
The update stream is delivered over a CDN (Amazon's CloudFront). Since the bucket holding the files is in Europe (Ireland), the edge locations in other continents had a small lag being updated with the latest files. As a result, servers outside the US would show 3.3.a3 as the latest version. I checked again right now and -finally- they're up to date.

Moreover, Live Update caches the latest version number for 6 hours. I just realised that Live Update doesn't clear the cache upon upgrade. I will fix that in the stable release.

There is a temporary workaround. After installation, you can go to Live Update (click on the "update found" button) and click on the "Refresh update information". This will force Live Update to load the latest information from the CDN, making the notification go away.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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