Is it possible to try out dev versions, like `1.7....

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[zak.taccardi]

Is it possible to try out dev versions, like 1.7.0-release-226?

I’m particularly interested in testing out the fix to this bug https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-52311/javalangVerifyError-Bad-type-on-operand-stack that is present in 1.7.0-RC.

Because 1.7.0-RC2 is not yet released, I would like to test it out 1.7.0-release-226

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

Yes, https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin#using--dev-and--snapshot-versions

[zak.taccardi]

bit confused here - 1.7.0-release-226 is not available in "<https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/kotlin/p/kotlin/bootstrap>"

I would expect 1.7.0-release-226 to be available here:

https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/kotlin/p/kotlin/bootstrap/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-s[…]7.0-release-226/kotlin-stdlib-jdk7-1.7.0-release-226.pom

But it’s not - is this intentional? I see:

1.7.0-dev-961 // 2022-01-23
1.7.20-dev-984 // 2022-05-10

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

Sorry, you need https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/kotlin/p/kotlin/dev repository, not bootstrap. In dev you can try 1.7.0-RC2-255 version. I’ll see if I can update the readme, probably bootstrap is not very useful for regular users.

[zak.taccardi]

So given that issue - 1.7.0-RC2-255 is not listed as a fix version, and 1.7.0-release-226 is listed as a fix version, but not available publicly AFAIK.

I’d like to set up a system where when an issue is fixed, and I can test it out as early as possible to confirm. AFAIK there isn’t a clear way to look at said issue and recognize which publicly available version the fix is in, maybe other than comparing time stamps.

Do you have any recommendations around for this use case?

[Alexey Belkov [JB]]

I don’t know why this particular build is not available. But the next one is: https://maven.pkg.jetbrains.space/kotlin/p/kotlin/dev/org/jetbrains/kotlin/kotlin-compiler/1.7.0-231/ . You could use that. AFAIK there is no convenient / automatic system for this, sorry.