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Dropbox prepares to leave beta with version 1.0 release candidate
Dropbox, with a bunch of minor bug fixes, has now been bumped from version 0.8 to 1.0 and garnered the exciting 'RC' tag. This means the developers think that Dropbox is ready for prime time -- though given its massive publicity drive, and a huge numbers of users, I think this is more of an 'exhibition release' than anything else.Due to a bug in the upgrade process, Linux and Mac OS X users who are running version 0.7 should not upgrade to 1.0 -- instead, you should wait for the next release candidate (and no ETA for the second RC is given, I'm afraid).
According to the changelog, very little has changed with version 1.0. Some little niggles have been ironed out, but that's about it. The only visible change, it seems, is to the tutorial tour -- but if want to try it out, you have to unlink and re-link your Dropbox account from Preferences.
[Did anyone else know that Dropbox was a beta service? I had no idea...]
Download Dropbox 1.0 RC1 for Windows
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Subscribe to commentsDeep S.Dec 19th 2010 11:27PM
Man I sure do love when Mac & Linux gets left behind! Just had to say that xP
Samuel GibbsDec 6th 2010 8:35AM
I've been using Dropbox for years and I had no idea it was still in beta!
Bruce ConnorDec 7th 2010 8:38AM
Does dropbox auto-update on windows?
MitchRapp81Dec 6th 2010 4:47PM
they should include an update feature... I had no idea but I just checked and I'm running 0.7.110 on all my computers !
FrenchescoDec 6th 2010 8:03PM
Looking at the release notes (https://www.dropbox.com/release_notes), it seems that version 0.7.110 was the last stable release. The versions after that seem to have been test builds.