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.

 

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!

Very well done everyone. The more I use v5, the more excited I get!

What versions will be supported by the converter? Will it support IPS v3? How about IPS v2?

You can convert from 3 to 4, then from 4 to 5. 

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

 

 

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 🙂

 

I can’t recall offhand but I think it’s somewhere around 4.5 being the oldest version that can upgrade to 5. 

When is version 5 coming out?  Seems like this is going on forever. We are ready :)

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. 

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.

@Marc Thank you for the update.  I have a cloud subscription.  Am I able to have my site use the beta ?

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/

@Marc When v5 is released, will I be able to update my Cloud site to use v5?

 

When v5 is release, you can indeed update your site to version 5

Question for ICC clients.

Will we be able to continue to use v4, or will we be required to upgrade to v5?

Thanks.

 

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. 

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!

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!

On 1/3/2025 at 10:54 AM, Jim M said:

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. 

Can I request the upgrade to v5 self-host? I am fine with that open beta phase.

6 minutes ago, kmk said:

Can I request the upgrade to v5 self-host? I am fine with that open beta phase.

You have access to the files in your Client Area. As a self-hosted client, you are self-managed for updates like this. Be sure to take a full backup of files and database prior to attempting.

And if you have modifications installed, be sure to check there is already a compatible version available.

Playing more this V5, I can see the Message Box is so on front, just curious if I can set that Messages feature only available member to admin staff and not members to members?