Features / Usability

Hi jmorris,

r55702 refers to a recent or just committed release. It is the release number of the svn code base - example of a long version of a svn note of a Tiki 14 instance (German version):

Letztes Update von SVN (14.0beta): Montag April 27, 2015 15:00:32 CEST- REV 55242

So r55702 is an abbreviation for *... REV 55702

As you see, 55702 is a higher number than 55242, which means 55702 is younger and should contain fixes and enhancements.

If a developer tells you something like "please check r55702, should fix this ", that usually means, that the developer did check the fix he explained to you, committed it to the code base and you should svn-up your installation and check, if the problem is sorted.

This only works for you, if you run a rolling release via svn or you use a latest build download version, which would need a bit more time consuming update.

svn up is quite easy, but you need shell access to the server (some shared hoster have that aswell).

You just login to the shell, move to the tikiroot (_$ cd path), then backup the database (_$ mysql options parameters values) and the update (_$ svn up).

Usually after 2 minutes including login you should have updated the Tiki and thus test if the fix does the job.

Cheers,
Torsten