Originally Posted by - Ice
I thought with the release of 2.5 (beta) meant the end of support for 1.5.X? Why would a label of "beta" be any different from a label of "release"?



From the upgrade discussion:
https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=200340
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Stage 2: 2.5.0 Release. The 1.5.8 Release version will be updated to the 2.5.0 Release version. You will be prompted before updating to 2.5.0, and you will have an option to save a 1.5.8 Final version to a separate directory.


There is a picture showing the upgrade path(s).