- You can select to update to new betas using a check-box in the X-Plane Web Updater. Previously there was a special updater for betas - now it is a preference, to cut down on the number of applications we have floating around.
- Release candidates do not get re-released or renamed when they go final! A release candidate means "we think this is totally done and can be released". It is declared "final" when, after letting people use it for a while, we decide that there probably aren't any bugs left that we will fix in this release. So 900r3 is the final version of X-Plane 900.
And of course, my usual rant about betas: betas aren't free candy, they're an attempt to work the bugs out of buggy software! If your goal is to enjoy your X-Plane experience, the safest bet is almost always to not download the beta. (An exception would be if there is a work-around for a driver bug that affects your hardware, available in a new beta.)
If you are a third party developer/author, please do download the betas, early and often! It is much easier for us to fix bugs early in beta.
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Now that's a statement ;-)... That post, a couple of days before going final, would have saved a lot of support mail.
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