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02 02 2006

WinDbg 6.6.3.5 is a Beta Version - Beware!

Posted by: Eran Sandler, in WinDbg

Jochen Kalmbach was kind enough (thanks Jochen!) to point in a comment to my previous post that release 6.6.3.5 is a BETA version of WinDbg.
He also pointed out this post in the WinDbg newsgroup that confirms this information.

Sorry for not finding this out just now, but it seems the only place that the word “beta” was written was in the “redist.txt” file in the installation folder.

It seems that some code Jochen wrote doesn’t work with the new version of DbgHelp.dll so there are a few things you should watch out in betas…
I personally like to live on the bleeding edge when it comes to WinDbg so I usually do care if a version is a beta or not. On the other hand, I can sympathize with Jochen’s frustration about using a new beta version and finding out something is broken…

Oh well… I’m sure this will get fixed very soon.

I just wish WinDbg releases were a bit more often than every 6 to 9 months.

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3 Responses to “WinDbg 6.6.3.5 is a Beta Version - Beware!”

  1. Jochen Kalmbach says:
    February 3rd, 2006 at 6:47 pm

    Hi!
    There are at least 3 bugs:
    http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windbg/browse_frm/thread/f4580638cf00b66d/ebaa7132f72b77e5?hl=de#ebaa7132f72b77e5

    http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windbg/browse_frm/thread/cb8ec42997630eb1/d7a1dd1a8036411e?hl=de#d7a1dd1a8036411e

    http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windbg/browse_frm/thread/6b8472b6abfccb91/2733648a869db7cd?hl=de#2733648a869db7cd

    http://groups.google.de/group/microsoft.public.windbg/msg/cade4b5dd6ed91a2

    At the release is only several days old…

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