I suspect anyone who has been waiting for NAT, or NFAS, or L2TP, etc is
going to say *YES*. :-)
If you don't need any of the new features, then it isn't worth loading a
public beta. However, once 3.9 is relesed then I would say to load it
because engineering will want any trouble reports to be on the most current
release.
There are some rapidly changing closed betas for modem code, I think not
changing the code in 3.9b8 is quite deliberate. The code is 3.8.2 is working
for *most* users, but is definitely broken for some. I expect that some
later open beta, or the release, will have new modem code - if the closed
beta testing produces one stable enough for production in time.
The only real 'bugs' in 3.8.2 I can think of off hand are modem code issues
and apparent E1 line signalling troubles - which are also being worked on.
-MZ
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