Update channels

Update channels let you trade stability for newer features. Forge plans three:

• Stable for production use. Tested before each release. Smaller surface, longer cadence.
• Beta for early access to upcoming features. Promoted from nightly after a manual smoke test.
• Nightly for everything that’s just landed on main. Highest cadence, lowest stability.

What’s available now

Forge currently ships stable only. Every install pulls from the same channel and gets the same builds.

Beta and nightly are coming soon. The infrastructure is in place (the manifest URL is channel-scoped: api.ranga.ai/releases/<channel>/...) but the build pipeline only publishes stable today.

Switching channels (when available)

Once beta and nightly land, you’ll switch in Settings → Advanced → Update channel. The choice persists across restarts.

Switching to a faster channel pulls the latest build for that channel on the next update check. Switching to a slower channel doesn’t downgrade you immediately; you stay on whatever version you’re on until the slower channel catches up to or surpasses your installed version.

Cross-channel downgrades

Going from a faster to a slower channel can leave you on a newer version than the slower channel publishes. Forge handles this gracefully: it doesn’t push a downgrade. You’ll just sit on your current version until the slower channel passes you.

If you specifically want to downgrade (a beta build broke your project, you want to revert to the previous stable), email support@ranga.ai and we’ll send you the older MSI to install over the top.