Invision Community 4: SEO, prepare for v5 and dormant account notifications By Matt November 11, 2024
Management Matt Posted October 23, 2024 Management Posted October 23, 2024 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. SeNioR-, Gary, Chris027 and 9 others 9 3
Amy Pond Posted October 23, 2024 Posted October 23, 2024 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! Matt, David N., TIKHONIN and 3 others 6
Gary Posted October 23, 2024 Posted October 23, 2024 Very well done everyone. The more I use v5, the more excited I get! David N., TIKHONIN, Ibai and 1 other 4
MasterOfFreedom Posted October 30, 2024 Posted October 30, 2024 What versions will be supported by the converter? Will it support IPS v3? How about IPS v2?
Management Matt Posted October 31, 2024 Author Management Posted October 31, 2024 You can convert from 3 to 4, then from 4 to 5.
Marc Posted November 1, 2024 Posted November 1, 2024 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
MasterOfFreedom Posted November 1, 2024 Posted November 1, 2024 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 🙂
Management Matt Posted November 1, 2024 Author Management Posted November 1, 2024 I can’t recall offhand but I think it’s somewhere around 4.5 being the oldest version that can upgrade to 5.
BeatingBenzosElijah Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 When is version 5 coming out? Seems like this is going on forever. We are ready :) sobrenome 1
Marc Posted December 18, 2024 Posted December 18, 2024 39 minutes ago, BeatingBenzosElijah said: When is version 5 coming out? Seems like this is going on forever. We are ready 🙂 We're glad you're ready for it! We're excited too! 🙂 We are getting there, but there is a lot to test, and a lot of moving parts. Its safe to say we are getting closer and closer to release, but it wont be until the new year that we do so. We have a few weeks of Holidays coming up, so its safe to say we wont be releasing a major release in that period. sobrenome 1
kummitus Posted December 22, 2024 Posted December 22, 2024 Hi Is there any indications yet on how the pricing for self-hosted will go? I see the open beta is paywalled behind the new classic license, but as a community that only needs the forum, we have not pulled the trigger yet.
BeatingBenzosElijah Posted Friday at 08:18 AM Posted Friday at 08:18 AM @Marc Thank you for the update. I have a cloud subscription. Am I able to have my site use the beta ?
Management Matt Posted Friday at 09:38 AM Author Management Posted Friday at 09:38 AM On 12/22/2024 at 4:43 PM, kummitus said: Hi Is there any indications yet on how the pricing for self-hosted will go? I see the open beta is paywalled behind the new classic license, but as a community that only needs the forum, we have not pulled the trigger yet. The pricing has already been set. To upgrade to Invision Community 5, you will need to switch to the Classic license, and all the details of the costings are presented before you confirm the license switch. 1 hour ago, BeatingBenzosElijah said: @Marc Thank you for the update. I have a cloud subscription. Am I able to have my site use the beta ? You cannot use the beta on your production site, but you can sign up for a v5 demo here: https://invisioncommunity.com/clubs/page/3-beta-information/
BeatingBenzosElijah Posted Friday at 09:58 AM Posted Friday at 09:58 AM @Marc When v5 is released, will I be able to update my Cloud site to use v5?
Marc Posted Friday at 10:32 AM Posted Friday at 10:32 AM When v5 is release, you can indeed update your site to version 5
My Sharona Posted Friday at 03:11 PM Posted Friday at 03:11 PM Question for ICC clients. Will we be able to continue to use v4, or will we be required to upgrade to v5? Thanks.
Jim M Posted Friday at 03:54 PM Posted Friday at 03:54 PM 43 minutes ago, My Sharona said: Question for ICC clients. Will we be able to continue to use v4, or will we be required to upgrade to v5? Thanks. You will continue to be able to use version 4. We will make an announcement when we will require version 5. However, that is likely once version 4 is no longer supported and version 5 has matured. While I'm sure many clients will jump into version 5. We respect that some will want to wait for it to mature or have third party services they need updated, etc... With that said, we likely will have a cutoff period once version 4 is no longer supported as technology has to keep innovating and remaining secure 🙂 . When that is though, I don't think we have a date in mind as we are still in version 5 beta phase. My Sharona 1
Max Posted Saturday at 04:56 AM Posted Saturday at 04:56 AM On 12/18/2024 at 7:24 AM, Marc said: We're glad you're ready for it! We're excited too! 🙂 We are getting there, but there is a lot to test, and a lot of moving parts. Its safe to say we are getting closer and closer to release, but it wont be until the new year that we do so. We have a few weeks of Holidays coming up, so its safe to say we wont be releasing a major release in that period. This is encouraging, Q1 of 2025 would be amazing! Marc and My Sharona 2
kummitus Posted Saturday at 12:11 PM Posted Saturday at 12:11 PM On 1/3/2025 at 11:38 AM, Matt said: The pricing has already been set. To upgrade to Invision Community 5, you will need to switch to the Classic license, and all the details of the costings are presented before you confirm the license switch. You cannot use the beta on your production site, but you can sign up for a v5 demo here: https://invisioncommunity.com/clubs/page/3-beta-information/ Thanks for the clarification!
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