The handling of bugfix releases

[John_Alcatraz]

Hey, the fixing of bugs at the moment really is not very nice managed.

The problem is, you only fix “very critical bugs” which cause crashes in hotfixes.

**So, if UE-9829 broke something which worked in 4.6.1, it will only get fixed in 4.8. So if someone really needs this to work he can’t use 4.7 at all. But 4.8 will have new features and totally new bugs, which may cause the same person to also not be able to use 4.8, because the fixes for the bugs introduced with 4.8 will only come in 4.9 and so on…
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So it’s really gambling whether a major version is usable at all for someone.

@John Alcatraz;238219

Tim, why do “critical Bugs” not get fixed in a hotfix, even if its 4.7.5 or whatever? Like BrUnO XaVIeR said he can’t use 4.7 while UE-9829 is around and I also can’t use 4.7 while UE-10800 is around, well I could but I would have to change dozens of blueprints just for changing it back in 4.8 again.

How will we ever get a stable version to work on if really critical needed fixes are only introduced with a new major update which also includes many new features with many new bugs?

@Tim Hobson;238328

Hot fixes are meant for critical bugs only. No new features or workarounds. These are meant to prevent crashes more than anything else for bugs that are listed as Critical.

@John Alcatraz;238363

So if a bug occurs in one version like 4.7 is it not supposed to get fixed in a hotfix but only in 4.8 except it is causing a crash? If every bug which was introduced in some major update will only get fixed in the next major update there will never be a version where everything works…

So for example UE-9829 broke something which worked in 4.6.1. You say it will probably only get fixed in 4.8. So if someone really needs this to work he can’t use 4.7 at all. But 4.8 will have new features and totally new bugs, which may cause the same person to also not be able to use 4.8, because the fixes for the bugs intruduced with 4.8 will only come in 4.9 and so on…

So it’s really gambling whether a major version is usable at all for someone.

@Tim Hobson;238403

The focus is stability for sure. This is the point of the preview releases to help get a more stable version and this is why this is the method being used here on forward. It can be frustrating when bugs happen and I’m sorry for that.

If you have any concerns regarding the stability or release method you can always post a thread in the feedback section.

Yeah I think I don’t have to add anything, I think I pointed out the problem the way it’s handled at the moment Regarding what Tim said about the preview, UE-10800 and UE-9829 were both reported during 4.7 preview and they still will only get fixed in 4.8…

[Tim_Hobson]

I just want to clarify here again, that fixes for these have not been submitted since this was neglected from being mentioned.

[John_Alcatraz]

Yeah I know, but you said these bugs will most probably only get fixed in 4.8 because they could possibly make other stuff not work and are not critical enough for a hotfix, that’s why I think its not important whether there is a fix yet or not

[John_Alcatraz]

I have edited the first post a bit since it’s not really nice starting with quotes Could anyone rename this thread to something more… Meaningful? I forgot I can’t edit the thread title after posting…

[eXi (Cedric Neukirchen)]

Renamed (:

[BrUnO_XaVIeR]

If 9829 is never fixed for 4.7 I will be very sad

[John_Alcatraz]

Epic, do you want Bruno to be sad?