simple technical question
 

i'm current using the last patch of 4.2 and i'm doing some local test for a future upgrade...
is REALLY necessary to upgrade through thousands of repeated steps of 45 alpha and 17 beta versions?
is not possible to join all the updates into a single one?
or cut off the alpha versions...

the full upgrade process take something like 15-20 minutes and often stop with some random error FOR NO F****** REASON AT ALL

3 upgrade attempt with the same config.php files and i got 3 diffentent errors .-.

(sometimes i managed to get the upgrade completed but i've got the same tons of errors like the other thread-starters of this forum)