Virtualmin installer beta or stable clarification

[Pierrot]

Hello,

I have been using the beta installer for a few months now … I call it “beta” as per the corresponding thread in the “New” category, @Joe had a few words about this version being “beta” here:

Virtualmin 7 installer beta released

That isn’t known. It’s unlikely there will be changes that require human intervention, but we’re not calling it stable because things may still change (the RHEL/Alma/Rocky repos changed their structure a few days ago in breaking ways, for example). Start new topics for new questions, but this question (mostly in reverse, going from MySQL to Mariadb) has come up many times in the forums. Search for it. It is possible and relatively easy (though not recommended…unless you have a damned good rea…

I searched the forum to see if there was any announcements about the installer being now “stable” and couldn’t find any, so I was wondering if there was now a “stable” version and if using the link mentioned in the first post of the same thread here was still ok :

Virtualmin 7 installer beta released

Howdy all, I believe we’re ready to call the new installer beta. It works for us for GPL and Pro installs in testing on Rocky/Alma 8, Debian 11, and Ubuntu 22.04. It is still changing rapidly, but in minor ways at this point. A system installed with this will probably be pretty close to what you’ll get once we call it stable, assuming it works for you. Please do not treat this like a stable release. If you’re using it on a system that will be put into production, you must test thoroughly first…

Thanks !
Pierre

[tpnsolutions]

@Pierrot,

The installer will likely maintain the “beta” label for a period until reports of bugs that occassionally come up start to become a bit more distant. That is, while it is considered pretty stable at this time, maintaining the “beta” label indicates that there could be a few quirks found for specific installations and/or a few features that are still either being worked out (likely not critical) or refined.

In summary, the “beta” installer is meant for newer distros such as Ubuntu 22.04, Rocky Linux, etc. which are otherwise not supported by the “stable” installer.

I hope this clarifies things enough.

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[marclaporte]

Hello Pierre,

That is a great question.

The short answer is that https://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh has been with version 7.0.0 for a few days now. I presume an official announcement is forthcoming. I have tested with Debian 10 and 11, and all is well.

You can follow development here: https://github.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-install

Specifically this file:
https://github.com/virtualmin/virtualmin-install/blob/master/virtualmin-install.sh

Please keep in mind that the install script is designed to run a fresh install.

Developers will also be interested in https://github.com/virtualmin/slib/. And https://software.virtualmin.com/lib/slib.sh also started recently offering the latest version (1.0.1)

[Pierrot]

Hello,
Thanks for your answers both of you ! I’ll look forward to that announcement and keep that link handy for my next installations !
Pierre.