How to upgrade from v3 beta to v3 stable

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Those of you who have been participating in the v3 beta process will likely want to upgrade to v3 stable in the near future.  Note that simply running /usr/local/centovacast/sbin/update will NOT put you on the stable release (although it may appear to -- trust me, it won't).

UNLESS YOU WANT TO CONTINUE USING A TEST RELEASE, you MUST edit /usr/local/centovacast/etc/update.conf and change:
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UPDATECHANNEL=unstable
To:
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UPDATECHANNEL=stable
Then run /usr/local/centovacast/sbin/update as usual to install v3 stable.

The reason for this is because the beta took place on the 'unstable' release branch of Centova Cast, so your update tool is configured to pull its updates from the 'unstable' branch.  At the moment the stable and unstable releases are identical, but we will continue to use the unstable branch to deploy pre-release test builds of Centova Cast as development continues.  If you want to actually use Centova Cast in production, you DO NOT want this -- you want to switch to the 'stable' branch so that you're always using a production-ready build.

For those of you who want to remain on the "bleeding edge", you may continue to use the unstable branch and receive access to the latest, greatest, and buggiest features. :)  But note that this may (and likely will) cause your control panel to break periodically as new and largely-untested features are pushed out.