Umbraco v16 Nightly Builds - Are they still a thing?

cheeseytoastie · September 22, 2025, 8:42am

Testing a few migrations to v16. I am getting blocked by a bug I’ve reported that’s been fixed and is due in v16.3 (due mid Oct).

Are there still nightly builds as per https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cms/fundamentals/setup/install/installing-nightly-builds

That’s that latest I can see and I don’t think it has this fix:

github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS

Umbraco.DropDown.Flexible doesn't allow unset values (null / empty)

opened 11:21AM - 29 Aug 25 UTC

closed 06:53AM - 09 Sep 25 UTC

cheeseytoastie

type/bug release/16.3.0

### Which Umbraco version are you using? v16.1.1 ### Bug summary Tested a v1…3 → v16 upgrade. The pages all failed to publish on upgrade and it’s because each page has a couple of dropdowns which are optional. For most pages in this site this value hasn’t been set by the user which is fine in v13 - you just get a blank dropdown. In v16 dropdowns are mandatory / default to the first item - this isn’t great IMHO - at the very least there should still be a setting on this so that you can enable / disable a not set dropdown or even allow an empty value (which isn't possible). I think it's quite usual to allow dropdowns to be optional (just like you can leave a text field blank) - so this seems to be an odd step ### Specifics Bug occurs with an upgrade from v13 -> v16 but it also is an issue with the functionality of this basic data type I believe. Null / empty should be allowed. ### Steps to reproduce For v13 - create a doc type with a flexible drop down value - add some values. Add to a page this drop down - have some pages where the drop down isn't set. Upgrade to v16. OR - just try and add an empty / not set value in a clean v16 site with a new (in)flexible drop down. <img width="688" height="145" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/837b1372-aa11-45b2-865d-50e5cbf4b7fc" /> ### Expected result / actual result Would expect the old behaviour that user doesn't have to select a value. Or that this is an option on the data type (this is probably better). --- _This item has been added to our backlog AB#56171_

Am I best just building out from source if I want to be testing on the latest? If so what’s the current stable branch for dev?

Steve

jacob · September 22, 2025, 9:43am

Yes, nightly builds are still a thing, although the pipeline will often time out because it is running the entire test suite.

You can see the latest builds here: umbraconightly - Umbraco.Cms 16.3.0--rc.preview.141.g8ff11e7 | MyGet

I will initiate a new build for you to get the latest.

At this point, the ”main” branch is the latest stable for 16.3, until the release branch is created. After that, it will be ”release/16.3”.

Update: The latest build for 16.3 is now available: umbraconightly - Umbraco.Cms 16.3.0--rc.preview.141.g8ff11e7 | MyGet