Hi everyone,
new beta version 17.8.2315 (build 17.8.3671.0) is released.
What’s new:
We did not finished any new feature in adequate BETA quality.
Known issues:
Download links:
https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=179943.0
Enjoy this beta!
We are looking forward to your feedback.
AVAST Team.
So if nothing was introduced… You could tell us what is fixed… sigh.
Hi Alikhan, thank you for your feedback. Let me ask you - what would you appreciate to know about fixed bugs? Are you interested in a full list of bugs fixed? Or are you insterested just in those reported by BETA community? Would the “subject/title” of a bug be enough?
Update/install over the existing version went without a problem, but after reboot I got to see “VPS is not up-to-date”.
Invoking a manual update for the VPS and it said I already have the latest installed.
This also happened with the previous beta version.
Something isn’t going correct there.
Seems to me it is one of the many bugs that people want to have fixed and told about.
Hi Petr,
We don’t expect a full list of bugs fixed because that would be huge, however, we expect a changelog which lists the most important/niggling issues which are fixed. A subject/title is more than enough. Currently, with respect, the changelogs are not very informative to say the least. This applies to both stable and BETA changelogs. What incentive does it give to BETA users to update if they don’t know what is fixed? Compared to the other A/V changelogs, Avast is behind and I won’t be the only one saying that.
And how does avast think beta testers can test if things or not if they don’t tell us what has been fixed ?
The whole idea behind beta testing is to see if new things work properly and if fixes for old bugs have actually been fixed.
If we’re not given any information on both of these items, why do beta testing ???
Thank you for your answers. You are absolutely right. There is no doubt you need information if you want to test something. My question was rather related to the format of it. Next BETA (next week) we will provide more rich changelog to you.
+1.Good bye avast beta… 
The issue with 17.7 with the passive mode is still not fixed.
Especially if you have an old version of AVG though you removed it completely it will still switch to passive mode when you install the new version whether the 17.7 or this new beta 17.8. It will say that the conflicting AV is the old version.
Eh, this is a avast forum not a AVG one.
Hi J.Bryl there are several issues with passive mode and we have a plan to test it further - the scenario you described will be retested too. However, if you were not already asked to do so, could you please enable debug loggin (Settings → Maintenance → Enable debug logging), restart the machine and send us all logs from ProgramData\Avast Software\Avast\log*.log (or ProgramData\AVG\Antivirus\log*.log if you have AVG) in ZIP archive?
If you have troubles with uploading to ftp://ftp.avast.com/incoming or sending directly to me over email, please drop me a message (email or forum). Thank you for your feedback!
Please do so, that would be an improvement.
PS: Testing…
The virus chest is still a dumbed down version of the old chest. 
Where are all the options we had before…??
Sounds like the Statistics that were supposed to be reworked but have never come back.
I really think I’m going to do a clean install and leave the beta versions alone (after over 13 years), there seems to be little point, betas that don’t appear to have changed.
[b]What's new:[/b] We did not finished any new feature in adequate BETA quality.Known issues:
When a license/subscription is about to expire, empty dialog may be shown.
Passive mode does not behave correctly in some cases.
Betas released for 1 day and released as a program update the next.
Plus the lack of information on previous bugs squashed or not (Known Issues should include these), how else are we to know what to test (what has been fixed and what hasn’t) !
According to Petr (Reply #7), this will change in the next beta. Let’s see…
It isn’t just that, recently betas have sailed through Q&A and Alpha testing with lots of issues. That is bloody frustrating, same things again and again being reported in the forums, yet unresolved and new functions being added.
I’d be More Comfortable testing betas on my most used Desktop if I knew more of what is fixed and what isn’t fixed, if I do any testing lately it’s on my less used that I don’t care about Much little Windows 7 Desktop, as if it took a hard crash wouldn’t really bother me, then again lately I sometimes skip beta testing as have no idea what is fixed
I still use Avast since i feel it offers the right amount of protection, doesn’t slow down performance, i started back in 2006 using Avast after a bad time with Windows Live Care antivirus missed a bad boot sector virus that idiot me at the time opened, (was testing that at the time for Microsoft) ever since then haven’t trusted Defender, and have always stuck to Avast on each PC and operating system
Just want the serious bugs with Avast caught, fixed, and then a nice stable version released, and i know the more testers you have with different system configurations is for the better probably, but also don’t got the time or patience to test as much as i used to anymore, i do test at times off and on still, but with no info what this version is fixing, i sorta feel like passing this time
Thanks for the new beta 