Quicken Is Not Advising Nor Updating When New Revisions Are Available

Boatnmaniac

A couple of days ago I was running R25.21 and noticed that someone else was running R26.14.  I was surprised that Quicken had not advised me that a new revision was available for update so I had Quicken check for updates and it said that I had the latest revision.

I then went to Quicken Support to check the revisions history and was even more surprised to find out that the current revision is R26.15...so I was two revisions out of date, not one.  Installing the Mondo Patch brought me up to date.

Yesterday, another Community member said he was running R26.14 and when I asked him to update to R26.15 he said he had the same issue...Quicken told him he had the latest revision and so there was nothing to update.

Is anyone else seeing this problem?

Rocket J Squirrel

Quicken does staged releases. Some people randomly get an early release, then Quicken pauses the release to see what feedback they get before releasing it to everyone. Think of it as Gamma Test.

Boatnmaniac

@Rocket J Squirrel  - Ah, that makes sense.  But I would think the appropriate way to do that would be to test in a beta group, first, before posting it as a release available that anyone can download and install.  Thanks.

GeoffG

Boatnmaniac said:

But I would think the appropriate way to do that would be to test in a beta group, first, before posting it as a release available that anyone can download and install.  Thanks.

Software is sent to beta testing and QA before it is released. However, there are not an infinite number of scenarios/systems/hardware that can be tested by any beta testing method. That is why distributed software is presented in staged release. If users with their particular setup experience issues and it becomes common enough, staged release can be paused (as you have seen). If no or few issues are reported (forum feedback) then the next staged role out proceeds. This is considered a best practice for software development.

Boatnmaniac

Thanks for the additional explanation, @GeoffG . 

NotACPA

As  an aside, many of the SuperUsers are also in the Beta Testing group.