openHAB 2.5.1x release discussion

[Bruce_Osborne]

Many people run snapshot bindings on releases and this has happened for years, before I even heard of OH.

In fact there was an installation script to do that on an August 2018 post.

Zigbee and zwave manual install script

A number of people have run into trouble performing manual installs of the Zigbee and Z-Wave bindings. A manual install (dropping the jar into addons) is rarely needed, but some people prefer a manual install over apt-get, or want to use a stable OH release with a recent Zigbee or Z-Wave binding. Here is a script that will hopefully make it easier to install, upgrade, and uninstall these bindings, and prevent some of the common issues. Who would benefit from this script: Anyone wanting to tes…