{"id":1981,"date":"2013-08-19T13:21:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T13:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2013\/08\/19\/vstfs-2012-4-update-4-rc-2-is-available\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T13:34:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:34:02","slug":"vstfs-2012-4-update-4-rc-2-is-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vstfs-2012-4-update-4-rc-2-is-available\/","title":{"rendered":"VS\/TFS 2012.4 (Update 4) RC 2 is available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2013\/07\/30\/vs-2012-4-update-4-will-exist.aspx\">announced<\/a> that there will, in fact, be a fourth update to VS\/TFS 2012.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be a very small update \u2013 really not much more than key bug fixes.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to ship sometime toward the end of the year and, between now and then, we will be releasing as series of \u201cRelease Candidates\u201d.\u00a0 Normally we\u2019d only have 1 or 2 release candidates for a release but, in this case, we are going to have several.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we released the second release candidate.\u00a0 You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/download\/details.aspx?id=39936\">download it here<\/a>.\u00a0 And you can learn more about it, including what bug fixes it includes, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/2872520\">KB article<\/a>.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect a lot of people to install this build.\u00a0 If you see a fix in the KB article that you really want, feel free to install it \u2013 we feel pretty good about the quality.\u00a0 However, it\u2019s certainly a work in progress and every few weeks we\u2019ll be bringing in another set of fixes.\u00a0 I don\u2019t expect you to update every few weeks and that\u2019s why I\u2019m being a bit muted in my enthusiasm.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be imploring you to install an RC as we get a little closer to that last one <a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/02\/8228.wlEmoticon-smile_58CD4724.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15586\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2014\/02\/8228.wlEmoticon-smile_58CD4724.png\" alt=\"Image 8228 wlEmoticon smile 58CD4724\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks ago I announced that there will, in fact, be a fourth update to VS\/TFS 2012.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be a very small update \u2013 really not much more than key bug fixes.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to ship sometime toward the end of the year and, between now and then, we will be releasing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"class_list":["post-1981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Three weeks ago I announced that there will, in fact, be a fourth update to VS\/TFS 2012.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to be a very small update \u2013 really not much more than key bug fixes.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to ship sometime toward the end of the year and, between now and then, we will be releasing as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}