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Pre-production and development releases

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To test any pre-production or development release:

One-line install

The simplest way to test the latest development or pre-release version is to use one line installation method with the appropriate argument. More on that in .

Binaries and packages

Each GitHub repository (, , , and ) has its pre-prelease versions available on the GitHub release page. This is where you can download binaries or packages with the pre-release, e.g.:

Docker images

  • pre-release – this tag is for the latest pre-production release - which also contains a version in form of vX.Y.Z-alpha/beta/rcX from the main branch

  • dev – this tag is for the latest development release from the dev branch.

Docker compose

Please change the Docker compose file to match the version or tags as stated above.

Each Docker image for , and has the following tags:

core
gateway
proxy
the one-line install documentation
core
gateway
proxy
client
defguard core example pre-release