# RapidWeaver 8 The best web design software for Mac, just got worse **URL:** \ **Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\ **Created:** [January 16, 2019, 10:59am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-8-the-best-web-design-software-for-mac-just-got-worse/24576 "2019-01-16T10:59:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![jabostick](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/jabostick/32/1760_2.png) [@jabostick](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/jabostick)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-8-the-best-web-design-software-for-mac-just-got-worse/24576/18 "2019-01-17T15:56:51Z")
Hyperbole aside, would you consider this a smooth release process? Can you not understand that this would be frustrating for some? I haven’t bothered with betas this time but the first final candidate was released about 8 weeks ago (and I [quote](http://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-8-1-final-candidate/23571?u=jabostick): “This is the Final Candidate version of RapidWeaver 8.1 - That basically means this version should be good enough to be released as the final version of RapidWeaver 8.1 🎉”). It, presumably, had fixes for bugs found in 8.0.3 but non-beta users can’t take advantage of that. The backwards compatibility seems odd to me as well. I can see it for major release (i.e. from 7 to 8) but within a version makes it seem like it wasn’t completely thought out. It happened with RW7 as well, so maybe that’s normal. Lastly, if not a criticism but a request - can you consider “stable compatibility with Stacks” as a required checkmark? When one of the FC’s is yanked from the updater because it pulls a fast one on developer who’d I’d say is critical to your success, that doesn’t inspire confidence. Now, I’m not in on any internal discussions so I can’t accuse you of penny-chasing or anything else (and I enjoy RW and the community around it) but you’re not being honest to be so dismissive. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/rapidweaver-8-the-best-web-design-software-for-mac-just-got-worse/24576)._