# Is the 6.3.x series stable in July of 2020?

**URL:** <https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240>\
**Category:** Using FoundationDB\
**Created:** [July 9, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240 "2020-07-09T18:11:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![gtaylor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/gtaylor/32/903_2.png) [@gtaylor](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/gtaylor)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2020, 6:11pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240/1 "2020-07-09T18:11:50Z")

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Hello,

I started tinkering with FoundationDB earlier this week, beginning my adventures on the site’s [Download](https://www.foundationdb.org/download/) page. The current default version on there is 6.2.20, which is where I started, only to later find a few more options (6.2.21, 6.2.21) hiding in the drop-down.

As I got underway with my tinker etcd layer, I noticed that 6.3 had some improvements in the Go bindings that were relevant to what I was doing (related to packing versioned tuples), but did not see 6.3 listed on the Downloads page. I also don’t see a 6.3 release announcement on the blog or on this forum’s Announcements category. I _did_ see word of the 7.0 roadmap landing, and it seems like git master is where some of the early development for 7.x is happening (I think).

Coming back around to my question: is the 6.3.x series considered stable? If so: are there 6.3.x deb packages hiding somewhere that I missed?

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**Author:** ![mengxu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/mengxu/32/893_2.png) [@mengxu](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/mengxu)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2020, 5:00am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240/2 "2020-07-10T05:00:09Z")

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6.3.x is not officially released yet. We are evaluating and testing it internally.  
Once we are confident it is stable and use it for our data, we will release the stable one.

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**Author:** ![gtaylor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/gtaylor/32/903_2.png) [@gtaylor](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/gtaylor)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2020, 6:55pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240/3 "2020-07-11T18:55:53Z")

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That makes sense. Thanks, @mengxu.

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**Author:** ![dulguun-cognite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@dulguun-cognite](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/dulguun-cognite)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 10:38am UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240/4 "2020-10-14T10:38:07Z")

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@mengxu Is there a timeline for the official 6.3 release? If not, is there a place I can download the 6.3 binary DEB image without building it myself?

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**Author:** ![mengxu](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/foundationdb/user_avatar/forums.foundationdb.org/mengxu/32/893_2.png) [@mengxu](https://forums.foundationdb.org/u/mengxu)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/is-the-6-3-x-series-stable-in-july-of-2020/2240/5 "2020-10-14T15:16:26Z")

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We are currently actively validating 6.3 release in our own clusters before we announce it is official.  
Historically, we publish the image only after we announce the official version.

Is there some feature in 6.3 you must have?  
If not, it is probably better for you to try 6.2 first which has been running for a while. You can always upgrade your cluster to 6.3 without noticeable downtime.