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Speaking as a former QA and software manager for a software company, you guys installing betas and prereleases on your production trucks are braver than me :-) Its not surprising to hear of deprecations of functionality, odd behaviors, and difficulties subsequently upgrading to official releases.
For those of us who are making decisions on whether to upgrade to the latest official release, can those of you reporting issues, please be absolutely clear in your posts on which specific official or unofficial release you are running, and whether you had upgraded from an unofficial release? History matters - upgrade testing of builds often omit paths which include unofficial builds, due to the sheer number of builds which never get promoted to official release.
The beta branch is more stable than the official branch, its very odd.