Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt Monday at 02:04 PM
Management Matt Posted October 23 Management Posted October 23 Invision Community 5.0.0 has reached a huge milestone; we're now in open beta testing. After numerous alpha releases, we're ready to move forward with the last stage of development and testing. The beta stage is primarily just fixing bugs and tweaking existing features and we're confident that the beta testing stage will run smoothly as its already stable and being used on a handful of production sites by brave souls who have upgraded immediately. Of course, we'd not recommend being so cavalier, especially if you are not very technical and do not have the time or patience to wait for fixes and risk broken functionality between beta releases! The good news is that you can use Invision Community 5 beta on a test installation, so you can set it up, and learn its new UI and feature set before planning your upgrade. The beta is available for both Invision Community Cloud customers, and Invision Community Classic customers. Invision Community Classic (Self Hosting) If you have an older license type (Invision Community Suite) and want to test Invision Community 5, then you are welcome to switch to the new v5 license in the client area. The renewal structure has changed, and all this is explained before you switch. If you have the classic license, you will then see the Invision Community 5 Beta download in your client area. Invision Community Cloud Our Cloud customers can request a time-limited v5 demo. Instructions on how to do this are in the Invision Community 5 Beta Testing Club. We're thrilled to move closer to a final release a year after Ehren revealed the "fresh new vision" for Invision Community 5. We'd love for you to join us in the Beta Testing Club and let us know what you think of Invision Community 5. Â DiXON4, IPCommerceFan, TIKHONIN and 8 others 8 3
Amy Pond Posted October 23 Posted October 23 I’ve just switched my self-hosted license to the new self-hosted license, and I really like the new policy—I’m glad you adopted it.  I hope that in the future, you will also reconsider offering ticket support to those without a cloud license.  In the meantime, I’m going to try out the new beta. I’m really curious! Ticaga, Matt, TIKHONIN and 3 others 6
Gary Posted October 23 Posted October 23 Very well done everyone. The more I use v5, the more excited I get! TIKHONIN, David N., Matt and 1 other 4
MasterOfFreedom Posted October 30 Posted October 30 What versions will be supported by the converter? Will it support IPS v3? How about IPS v2?
Management Matt Posted October 31 Author Management Posted October 31 You can convert from 3 to 4, then from 4 to 5.Â
Marc Posted November 1 Posted November 1 On 10/30/2024 at 11:33 PM, MasterOfFreedom said: How about IPS v2? Worth noting, you cant convert from 2 to 4, let alone 2 to 5 🙂 Of course, you could do 2-3-4-5  Â
MasterOfFreedom Posted November 1 Posted November 1 17 hours ago, Matt said: You can convert from 3 to 4, then from 4 to 5. 5 hours ago, Marc said: Worth noting, you cant convert from 2 to 4, let alone 2 to 5 🙂 Of course, you could do 2-3-4-5   Yeah, my current upgrade path is from 3 to 4. I was just wondering if those upgrade steps got merged into 5—more wishful thinking, haha. So, to confirm, you can't go from 3 to 5; I would have to go to 4 first? Luckily, I got my upgrade migration times down to a solid 1.5 hours from 2.0.4 to 4 latest from 8+ hours 🙂 Â
Management Matt Posted November 1 Author Management Posted November 1 I can’t recall offhand but I think it’s somewhere around 4.5 being the oldest version that can upgrade to 5.Â
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