da1Bear Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 https://invisioncommunity.com/deprecation-tracker/invision-community-4-r9/ " With the release of Invision Community 5, we will begin the process of stopping support for Invision Community 4 " That is the direction of this company! THEREFORE: PLEASE DO NOTE DEPRECIATE ANYTHING IN THIS VERSION OF SELF HOSTED ! Leave it AS IS !!!! You are gona stop support for version 4 ! So leave 4 as it is for self-hosted with-out depreciating the announced deprciations. That certainly is not asking that much!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Calvert Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 (edited) Huh? I’m not sure you’re quite understanding what has been said so far. IPB5 will be available for both self hosted (classic) and cloud. When IPB5 is released, users will not be required to immediately upgrade. They can continue to use IPB4. IPB4 will continue to receive technical support and bug fixes for quite awhile after version 5 is released. They’re telling folks that the deprecated features won’t exist in 5. That does not mean they’re being removed from version 4. (No clue where you’re getting that idea because that is NOT what the announcement says.) At some point however (like a year or so after 5 is actually released is the general time I’ve seen discussed) 4 will some day fully go away. It won’t be maintained forever. (The same thing happened when 4 game out… 3 was supported concurrently for a year and even a second year following 4’s release for security updates before eventually being fully ended.) Given the depreciation timeframes noted, it can be guessed that IPB5 won’t come out till 2024 at the earliest. That means we’re talking 2025/2026 before it could actually go away at minimum. That gives you PLENTY of time to plan for your site. Edited May 15, 2023 by Randy Calvert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marc Stridgen Posted May 15, 2023 Share Posted May 15, 2023 2 hours ago, da1Bear said: PLEASE DO NOTE DEPRECIATE ANYTHING IN THIS VERSION OF SELF HOSTED ! I believe there is a misunderstanding on what the word deprecate means. This is not the same as the word remove. Deprecation states our intention to remove a feature, and that we will not add to or improve upon that feature. If you take a look at any of the items on the deprecation tracker, we also include a removal point. Take this one for an examplehttps://invisioncommunity.com/deprecation-tracker/commerce-ticket-system-r6/ If you take a look in the top right, it states here it will be removed in version 5. Therefore by definition, it will exist in 4. We will at some point stop support for it of course, as we will not support anything at all in version 4, but that is a long way away (current stated as 2025/2026) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
da1Bear Posted May 15, 2023 Author Share Posted May 15, 2023 Thank you !!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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