Switching Software Releases - drexjj/sbitx GitHub Wiki

Use this procedure if you ever want to try out a previous release for testing purposes. Please note that NO tech support will be offered for these older releases.

Go to https://github.com/drexjj/sbitx/tags/ for a tag listing.

On your sbitx - go to the sbitx directory via teriminal and enter the release tag number to test. Each release tag is labelled as vx.xx-software-only

Such as:

cd sbitx
git pull
git fetch --all --tags
git checkout tags/<tag-name>
git stash
./build sbitx

Example:

cd sbitx
git pull
git fetch --all --tags
git checkout tags/v5.2-software-only
git stash
./build sbitx

To switch back to the current release, then do this:

cd sbitx
git pull
git switch main
./build sbitx