I have a fresh install of MacOS and I downloaded the new beta version (After seeing Peterixxx's tweet) from the website, after installing to applications and logging in the default minecraft version was the snapshot, I assume this is not intended.
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I'm not quite sure whether that's the case, but it might be possible that snapshots are enabled because you're using the beta launcher. That might be a thing that the beta launcher does differently from the release one?
This issue also occurs on the Windows launcher, using a fresh Windows 10 install and a fresh Minecraft Java install. In my opinion the default should be the "Latest release" not the latest snapshot.
I'm seeing this as well. Running 2.1.7658 on Linux (Ubuntu 18.04).
I've noticed that the lastUsed field for the profiles in launcher_profiles.json doesn't look to be being updated. It's set to "1970-01-01T00:00:00.000Z" for all profiles, which is probably why the launcher doesn't know which one to show (it defaults to sorting by last used date).
As a workaround, I manually updated that timestamp for the latest-release profile, and the launcher now selects it by default.
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