I'll be total honest. It's the best. And when I say best, I do really mean it's the best system on the market at this moment. I find it very stable. There are a few bugs which should be expected from a software that was rewritten mostly from scratch, but the IPS dev team are fixing them as fast as they can.

Was mostly asking if 5 itself as a version is stable enough, but that's good enough. I've been using ipb since the 1.x days. A very long time. Used to originally use the non-commercial free version 👼a few years later eventually getting a life license in 2006. Sad time to see the life-ness pulled back but hey, what can you do. I've stuck it out this long. Might as well put something back into the community I've used for over 2 decades 😎 I guess I shall take a peek at the 5.0 code and see if it's something I want to get into and hopefully for at least my own benefit it is.

5.0 has been tested for more than a year before its release. In terms of initial releases, it’s very polished.

The biggest hold up is working through compatibility issues with certain third party resources and themes. But the software itself is pretty nice.

 

You might not be the best to ask this, but maybe you know. Is the current 5.0 version in any sort of stable state and available to use? If so, I might dig into it. I already make small adjustments to the code of my current install. Going to be annoying to migrate those to 5, but I'll already have reason to have my nose in it. It may be something I consider doing.

Version 5 has been released and is available to all customers as of Tuesday last week.

 

Version 5 has been released and is available to all customers as of Tuesday last week.

Very nice thanks. I will definitely check it out and see because the support ticket system is something I may not have used extensively, but the features of it are incredibly useful and would like to see it continue in some form.