As of 2025-02-11, with show-upgrade-prerelease as true, Gnome Software is inviting me to break my computer:
Some context in an older question:
Can we know why is that happening? According to the Key Tasks, we’re one month away from the Beta release.
We’ve just branched F42, so it certainly isn’t ready for testing by users. I’ll ask folks in the -devel channels and see if we can figure out what’s going on.
I’m afraid I haven’t been able to figure out how/why this is happening. I would file a bug against gnome-software to get more information from the maintainers directly about this
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora&version=rawhide&component=gnome-software
As far as I can see, the beta release point is not really visible in the repository except for the name of the iso files.
Out of curiosity, what is the output of this command?
gsettings get org.gnome.software show-upgrade-prerelease
Why are you asking Alessio?
It is showing false, because I want to be able to use gnome-software normally. But it was true back then when I wrote this (with a typo):
Sorry, I didn’t read your post fully.
Then, if you set show-upgrade-prerelease to true, I think that it is normal that GNOME Software invites you to upgrade to the prerelease version (42). Isn’t it?
The issue is that it advertizes the version when it is branched and not yet in beta. I think.
It’s completely expected.
The pref is ‘prerelease’. As soon as the branched release shows up it’s a pre-release.
There’s no seperate pref/setting for any other states. 
As part of the final release the setting on the server switches over from “Under development” to “released” and it shows for everyone, not just the folks with the prerelease pref set.
And the Path Name would it not be able to take? Just that it shows up when it is beta?
While it is beta, on the mirrors it is in /fedora/linux/releases/test/
However, i do see an other problem with the pre-release message showing up to install. While anaconda is warning while installing a pre release, gnome software invites to upgrade ?! Changing the install button to a “read more” would make sense and then give on a farther screen more detailed info’s like:
/fedora/linux/releases/Fxx folder.Just to be aware that we do communicate everywhere the same information.
I just went ahead and upgraded to F42 when it branched, so far so good. 
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Disclaimer: this is not an advice to anyone to upgrade ↩︎
Upgrading to prereleases is only shown when someone MANUALLY sets the option to show pre-releases. Presumaably someone would only do this when they are ready/wanting to upgrade to a prerelease.
It’s a manual step. It doesn’t show for everyone, only those who specifically set it.
It’s done this way so that QE folks and early testers can upgrade and test the process, but only if they opt in to do so.
But sure if you want to add a step there to provide more info, a request for enhancement on gnome-software (and kde discover) would be the place.
I understood it is automatically … sorry then.