Recognise "RC" as beta firmware

[jamesmyatt]

Problem/Motivation

Doesn't seem to support updating to an RC via the beta channel. I suspect it ignores "RC" updates completely.

I have a number of devices with "0.15.0-b7" firmware, but an update to "0.15.0-rc.1" isn't offered automatically.

Expected behavior

Recognise RC firmware as beta

Actual behavior

RC firmware not offered

Steps to reproduce

Observe WLED devices with current beta firmware

Proposed changes

Fix issue. No workarounds, except a manual update.

Main issue appears to be here:

python-wled/src/wled/wled.py

Line 774 in ac828b2

if (

[jamesmyatt]

Note that 0.15.0 final has been released now, so it's not urgent

[github-actions]

There hasn't been any activity on this issue recently, so we clean up some of the older and inactive issues.
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[frenck]

This has been resolved in #1529. The version check now strips pre-release suffixes before comparing, so RC versions like 0.15.0-rc.1 are accepted correctly.