Jump to content

V5 Release Question?


Go to solution Solved by Matt,

Recommended Posts

Posted (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 by ZakRhyno
Posted

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
Posted

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.

Disappointed World Cup GIF by Goldmaster

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.

Posted
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.

  • Management
Posted
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.

Posted
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.

Disappointed World Cup GIF by Goldmaster

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

Posted
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.

Disappointed World Cup GIF by Goldmaster

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.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...