ZakRhyno Posted November 7 Posted November 7 (edited) This may have already been asked before, but I haven't been able to find anything in the searches when I looked. But any timeframe that V5 well be out? Are we thinking 2025 1st Quarter more so than 2024? Edited November 7 by ZakRhyno
Marc Posted November 7 Posted November 7 It will depend on the beta process and what comes up in that process. Especially at this point in the year, I could say one or the other and only be out by a week to change that answer 🙂
Management Solution Matt Posted November 7 Management Solution Posted November 7 Hi Zak, It's a good question. Developers are always reluctant to give a ballpark figure for when they expect a product to be released for two reasons: firstly, they are overly optimistic about how long things take, and secondly once a date or month is given, it starts a countdown. If we miss that date then it becomes a bit of a stick to wave at us. All that said, we are confident that we'll release v5.0.0 final in Q1 2025. It will probably feel like quite a soft release as we won't update our website, etc, and we'll offer it alongside v4 which will be supported for quite a while yet. We'd expect most will stick with v4 while testing out v5 and waiting for it to mature a bit before converting over. Marc and DawPi 2
Square Wheels Posted November 7 Posted November 7 3 minutes ago, Matt said: All that said, we are confident that we'll release v5.0.0 final in Q1 2025. It will probably feel like quite a soft release as we won't update our website, etc, and we'll offer it alongside v4 which will be supported for quite a while yet. We'd expect most will stick with v4 while testing out v5 and waiting for it to mature a bit before converting over. Thank you for your candor. One more thing we need to wait for is themes and add-ons. Fortunately, I only use themes from @Ehren, so I know I'm in good hands there. I have a bunch of plugins, I suspect I'll just need to get along without those, or ideally those authors convert them to apps. Either way, I will end up with fewer add-ons than I currently have as it seems many people have abandoned them. Ehren and Matt 1 1
Management Matt Posted November 7 Management Posted November 7 Just now, Square Wheels said: Thank you for your candor. One more thing we need to wait for is themes and add-ons. Fortunately, I only use themes from @Ehren, so I know I'm in good hands there. I have a bunch of plugins, I suspect I'll just need to get along without those, or ideally those authors convert them to apps. Either way, I will end up with fewer add-ons than I currently have as it seems many people have abandoned them. Absolutely, the actual upgrade is the easy bit. It'll take time for themes and apps to be updated which we understand and will do what we can to help with. Square Wheels 1
ZakRhyno Posted November 7 Author Posted November 7 1 hour ago, Matt said: Hi Zak, It's a good question. Developers are always reluctant to give a ballpark figure for when they expect a product to be released for two reasons: firstly, they are overly optimistic about how long things take, and secondly once a date or month is given, it starts a countdown. If we miss that date then it becomes a bit of a stick to wave at us. All that said, we are confident that we'll release v5.0.0 final in Q1 2025. It will probably feel like quite a soft release as we won't update our website, etc, and we'll offer it alongside v4 which will be supported for quite a while yet. We'd expect most will stick with v4 while testing out v5 and waiting for it to mature a bit before converting over. tyvm Matt 1
WebCMS Posted November 9 Posted November 9 On 11/7/2024 at 9:24 AM, Matt said: Hi Zak, It's a good question. Developers are always reluctant to give a ballpark figure for when they expect a product to be released for two reasons: firstly, they are overly optimistic about how long things take, and secondly once a date or month is given, it starts a countdown. If we miss that date then it becomes a bit of a stick to wave at us. All that said, we are confident that we'll release v5.0.0 final in Q1 2025. It will probably feel like quite a soft release as we won't update our website, etc, and we'll offer it alongside v4 which will be supported for quite a while yet. We'd expect most will stick with v4 while testing out v5 and waiting for it to mature a bit before converting over. Software vendors offer beta versions to try out for free until the GA is out. This way, it gets quicker to reach GA as it follows, "demo/try early, fail early, report early, fix early" instead of waiting too long. The current trial accounts are valid for only a month. If we try Beta 2 for a month, then there is Beta 3 and 4 and... and no way to try those later versions. Please consider keeping the trial accounts active until IC v5 goes live so users can try out the frontend and backend and help you get there sooner.
Marc Posted November 11 Posted November 11 On 11/9/2024 at 12:39 AM, WebCMS said: If we try Beta 2 for a month, then there is Beta 3 and 4 and... and no way to try those later versions. You would simply create a new one.
Andreas Grace Posted November 12 Posted November 12 On 11/7/2024 at 5:24 PM, Matt said: we'll offer it alongside v4 which will be supported for quite a while yet In the deprecation tracker, v4 is listed as "Removal 2025/2026". It should be safe to remove 2025 from there, I think.
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