[blairwillis]

It's safe to update to 2.7.5, but if you don't want to deal with quirks, definitely hold off on 3 for some of the big bugs to get worked out.

It's a beta, plain and simple, and the very first beta release for that matter. The whole point of a beta is to get it into a public test bed to see if volunteer "beta-testers" can help flush out bugs.

I think that the interwebs have been too freely applying the "beta" moniker to the point that people expect beta software to be stable. Case in point: Google's gmail, which has been in "beta" for years now.

An aside: The board comments on 3.0b sometimes surprise me with their tone. Yes, it's o.k. to post a bug to make other users aware of it, but IMHO stop freaking out about something not working and asking when it will be fixed. This is not unique to this board and this beta software, but across the net. People need to understand that "beta" means an experimental, work-in-progress, buggy, problematic, incomplete, quirky, etc..

I somewhat prefer "private" beta releases, such as the Ableton Live method of limiting beta software releases to a limited pool of beta testers who have specifically requested to test, rather than a wide-open public release. I would be concerned from a manufacturer's point of view that too many people will get the impression that the hardware is not reliable simply because they misunderstand the "beta" concept. Your comment that you were "getting the feeling that the TIs have their issues too" coupled with the next observation to stay with 2.7.3 "until 3.0 is out of beta" indicates this pervasive association of beta reliability with product reliability.

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