As we find ourselves with our toes over the precipice of June; signalling the half way point of the year, I thought it's a good time for an update.

Apologies southern hemisphere.

Invision Community 5 has been in alpha testing for a while, and a small group have found a good number of bugs, and offered their thoughts and suggestions, some of which we've implemented. During this time we've wrapped up the new editor, a boat load of UI improvements and more.

We are now ready for the next stage, which is to give our alpha testers their own Cloud v5 to test with. This opens up testing for the Admin CP, and all areas without using developer mode. v5 has a lot of changes to how CSS, JS and resources are managed. They are now built when we build the apps, and should never need rebuilding. We also store compiled templates now, so lots of slow eval() calls are no longer needed. In brief testing locally, it has made the entire platform super-fast.

We are choosing to use a Cloud v5 to test with, rather than a traditional download for two reasons. The first is that using our hosting platform means we don't have to chase down issues with PHP, MySQL and unix versions which can be time consuming in the early stages. The second is that we're still writing the new build code, so we can't actually produce a versioned zip just yet. 😂

But fear not, downloadable versions will be coming at some point.

We're aiming to have this alpha demo system ready next week, so if you want to help alpha test, drop a comment below. I want to keep the first round (1-2 weeks) fairly small or it becomes overwhelming sifting through the feedback and bugs but please do register your interest.

In terms of functionality, we're wrapping up the tagging changes; I'd expect a blog on that next week. The final parts of the Pages app are coming together. We even tested an upgrade of this site to v5 to see how the Pages built pages looked, and much to all of our relief, it looks great with just a few CSS classes needing updating.

It's been a long journey - and a little longer than we'd first hoped but we're getting closer to betas when the fun really starts.

We're really proud of v5 and we hope you like what we've created.

 

23 minutes ago, Matt said:

so if you want to help alpha test, drop a comment below

Just proving that I've read the whole post!

Feel free to skip me if you get an unmanageably large number of volunteers. 

Looking forward to v5 and am willing to help test.

1 hour ago, Matt said:

if you want to help alpha test, drop a comment below.

I would love the opportunity to be part of this alpha test phase.

Time to see the ACP then. 😋

I hope i can help !!

33 minutes ago, teraßyte said:

Time to see the ACP then. 😋

Count me in!

Thanks for the communication. Every bit helps as we inch closer to a large upgrade. 

I am willing to help with testing

I'm (still) in.  I'm looking forward to trying Pages.

Please choose us, we have plenty of things to test 

Edited May 31, 20242 yr by SoloInter

3 hours ago, Matt said:

We're aiming to have this alpha demo system ready next week, so if you want to help alpha test, drop a comment below. I want to keep the first round (1-2 weeks) fairly small or it becomes overwhelming sifting through the feedback and bugs but please do register your interest.

Looking forward to the next stage!

Yaaaay! Would love to test!

Don’t forget to keep me around!

I would love to help out!

Check #Part 1 ✅ 

Check #Part 2 👉😃👈

I would be honored to be included. 

Edited May 31, 20242 yr by Ocean West

I am always happy to test 🙂

Good stuff Matt, I am really looking forward to see what you have come up with for Pages 🙂

Sign me up if you need more.. thanks much. 

I am willing to test version V5. 😁

I’d look forward to seeing some of the backend stuff after testing the front end

I'm happy to help test v5 🙂