As the below terminal output shows, I disabled betas and then pressed enter. Because I was on 25.07.2, I expected that the launcher would just launch Anki. But, it installed the 25.8b1 instead.
Anki Launcher
1) Latest Anki (just press enter)
2) Choose a version
3) Keep existing version (25.07.2)
4) Revert to previous version (25.07.1)
5) Allow betas: on
6) Cache downloads: off
7) Uninstall
8) Quit
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Beta releases disabled.
1) Latest Anki (just press enter)
2) Choose a version
3) Keep existing version (25.07.2)
4) Revert to previous version (25.07.1)
5) Allow betas: off
6) Cache downloads: off
7) Uninstall
8) Quit
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Updating Anki...
Downloading cpython-3.13.5-windows-x86_64-none (download) (20.1MiB)
Downloading cpython-3.13.5-windows-x86_64-none (download)
Installed Python 3.13.5 in 28.80s
+ cpython-3.13.5-windows-x86_64-none
Resolved 49 packages in 3.02s
Downloading pyqt6-qt6 (70.4MiB)
Downloading pyqt6-webengine-qt6 (105.1MiB)
Downloading pyqt6 (24.5MiB)
Downloading aqt (4.0MiB)
Downloading anki (9.5MiB)
Downloading anki
Downloading aqt
Downloading pyqt6-webengine-qt6
Downloading pyqt6
Downloading pyqt6-qt6
Prepared 7 packages in 49.33s
Uninstalled 7 packages in 7.53s
Installed 7 packages in 9.24s
- anki==25.7.2
+ anki==25.8b1
- anki-release==25.7.2
+ anki-release==25.8b1
- aqt==25.7.2
+ aqt==25.8b1
- pyqt6==6.8.0
+ pyqt6==6.9.1
- pyqt6-qt6==6.8.1
+ pyqt6-qt6==6.9.1
- pyqt6-webengine==6.8.0
+ pyqt6-webengine==6.9.0
- pyqt6-webengine-qt6==6.8.1
+ pyqt6-webengine-qt6==6.9.1
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