Professional software QC engineers refer to this as "regression testing", to ensure that the software involved continues to operate as it did in the previous release as tested/released on the available hardware at that time.
There are no documented changes for the K3, therefore you should not see any difference in the behavior of a K3 when testing this beta firmware on it. If you do not wish to test a beta deployment of an upcoming firmware release, then don't install and test it. If you'd like to help Elecraft verify that the changes made to the firmware behave as expected, then I'm sure they'd appreciate it if you'd install it and try it out. I just wish Yahoo! would do the same thing for its mail software! (I continually see problems in the formatting of my posts the list from my Yahoo! web account; please bear with me/it) 73 de N1HO From: Phil Wheeler <w...@socal.rr.com> Is there any reason a K3 needs this version for improved performance, functionality, etc.? ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com