# Moving from Git to stable

**URL:** <https://discourse.beets.io/t/moving-from-git-to-stable/1562>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [November 1, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/moving-from-git-to-stable/1562 "2020-11-01T19:06:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![bearcatsandor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/bearcatsandor/32/488_2.png) [@bearcatsandor](https://discourse.beets.io/u/bearcatsandor)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 7:06pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/moving-from-git-to-stable/1562/1 "2020-11-01T19:06:16Z")

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I haven’t had any serious issues using the git version of beets on Gentoo, but i’m thinking of simplfying things a bit by moving to the stable version.

Given that the stable version is rather old, and my last install was on 2020-09-17, is anything likely to break, or mess up my track data if I do move to 1.4.9?

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**Author:** ![wisp3rwind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f0a364/32.png) [@wisp3rwind](https://discourse.beets.io/u/wisp3rwind)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/moving-from-git-to-stable/1562/2 "2020-11-01T21:09:36Z")

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Stable beets doesn’t work with the latest Python versions (both 3.9 and recent version from the 3.8.x series). The database scheme itself shouldn’t have changed since the last release, so I don’t expect anything would directly mess up your data. Given the large number of changes since 1.4.9, there is a good chance a few bugs relevant for your workflow were squashed in the meantime. Thus, I’d recommend not to downgrade (even if you run an older Python). Be sure to take a backup of the database in case you decide to do so anyway.

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**Author:** ![bearcatsandor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/discourse.beets.io/bearcatsandor/32/488_2.png) [@bearcatsandor](https://discourse.beets.io/u/bearcatsandor)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2020, 9:21pm UTC](https://discourse.beets.io/t/moving-from-git-to-stable/1562/3 "2020-11-01T21:21:06Z")

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Thank you. I’ll heed your advice and hold off for the next release.