version 1.6.42 vs 1.7.26

[geoHeil]

Description

What is the right version nof quarto?

Quarto-cli seems to be only available in various package repositories 1.6.42 or 43 but not 1.7 (homebrew, pip, conda)

1.7 is only offered from your website.

what is the difference?

what is the right one?

I would prefer to install quarto from my package manager - ideally https://pixi.sh/ via conda or pip.

[geoHeil]

Is #12496 the answer? I.e. that your website offers the RC as a download? but otherwise they would be equivalent?

[mcanouil]

Quarto team is not responsible of, at least, homebrew and conda. These are community contributions which uses "stable release" (possibly with slight update delay).
To simplify, Quarto team provides the releases via GitHub, so if you get Quarto from anywhere else, it means it's community-based, thus that Quarto team has no control over it.

Quarto uses the following lifecycle:

• pre-release
• release candidate
• stable release

Choose what you want.

• the 1.7.* pre-release is in "release candidate"
• the 1.6.* is the current stable release.

but otherwise they would be equivalent?

I don't know what you mean by that. If versions are different, it means there are changes. Those changes are listed in the changelog that you probably should read.

1.7 is only offered from your website.

This is not true. All releases are available in their latest state with a complete changelog for each of them.

https://quarto.org/docs/download/

[geoHeil]

thanks for the clarification