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= Snapshot builds

It's sometimes useful to test code changes in OliveTin that are still in development - and have not yet made it into an official version, yet. Thankfully, all code changes are automatically compiled into a "snapshot" builds and are saved in GitHub actions.

If you browse to GitHub actions page for OliveTin, you'll find the "Build Snapshot" job, with a list of recent builds.

* https://github.com/OliveTin/OliveTin/actions/workflows/build-snapshot.yml[OliveTin's Build Snapshot page]

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Most of the time you will want to select the top build, unless you've specifically been given a build link to use. 

== Download the snapshot archive

On the job page, you will have a single "snapshot" file listed. In this screenshot, it is 109 MB.

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Once downloaded, you can open the archive using any tool that you use to open .zip files. The contents should read something like this;

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Extract the file you need, and off you go!