Kubuntu 8.04.1 audacity version

[chuck adams]

Last weekend I needed to record some audio for long
periods of time, so I did a  "sudo apt-get install audacity".

I started it up and noted that it was a beta version.

1.  Why a beta version?

Come to find out, after I had recorded some six hours
of audio unattended that there are several problems
What was wrong with the standard release that it
wasn't included in the repo?

thanks in advance,

chuck