“If nothing shows up this will be our stable build,” says the cloud company

May 9, 2014 10:35 GMT  ·  By

After battling a data leak bug, cloud computing company Dropbox today is proud to announce the first release candidate of Dropbox 2.8.0 for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. According to the announcement, the RC will be promoted to Final/Stable status if no bugs are found. A new iOS version of the app is also available.

Dropboxer David E. makes the proper introductions on the company’s forums, saying, “So we've battle tested this build and it looks good to go. We're willing to call this a release candidate. If nothing shows up this will be our stable build!”

Dropbox 2.8.0 fixes a Move Dropbox issue when Long Paths exist, addresses a rare infinite Connecting error, includes a prompt for selective sync in the setup wizard for large Dropboxes, brings auto sign-in installers for Windows and Mac OS X and a notification when your hard disk is full, as well as new icons in the tray popup.

David explains the prompt to use selective sync feature, saying, “if your Dropbox is more than 10 GB or syncing your Dropbox would fill up most of your remaining hard disk space, we will prompt you to use selective sync to skip syncing some of your folders. Note that this prompt is skipped if you have previously linked this account, as we assume you'll have your selective sync settings from before.”

The Dropboxer spends a little time talking about the auto sign-in installer as well.

“We're trying something new this time. We'd like you to test our auto sign-in installers for Windows and Mac OS X. The auto sign-in installer will not ask you for your Dropbox username and password a 2nd time if you're logged in to the website.”

Customers who want to help the company test this feature are asked to unlink or uninstall their Dropbox app, access the links supplied in the forum post, sign into their account, and allow the installer to be downloaded to their computer.

“The install should automatically sign you into Dropbox on your computer! Note: If your Dropbox is very large (+300,000 files) we don't recommend doing this,” says David. “Please let us know if you are having issues with the auto sign-in installers.”

Dropbox 3.1.3 was also released for iOS customers today featuring an updated app icon, fixes for issues causing Favorites to disappear for some users, and increased stability and performance.

Download Dropbox 2.8.0 RC for Mac OS X

Download Dropbox 2.8.0 RC for Windows

Download Dropbox 2.8.0 RC for Linux

Download Dropbox 3.1.3 for iOS