Fantastic job on Ipb 5! It's the best forum softare currently out there. The excellent work you all have done as a team deserves recognition! You are an awesome example of hard work, commitment, and determination. Congratulations on your achievement and success! Well done, everyone!

And thank you for your patience and testing!

 

So glad to see this get to the finish line. You guys have done an amazing job, thank you for all your hard work and for inviting me to road-test the alphas and betas with you. I'm probably a few months away from upgrading yet (I need a solution regarding Status Updates data retention/conversion [as well as give my community enough notice that it's going bye-bye] and am going to wait and see if some of the custom apps I have here will be carried over to V5) but I have been running the beta on a test instance and genuinely cannot wait to get it deployed on my community. I really think doing so will kick off a new era for my community in terms of activity and activity.

Thanks again Matt and all at IPS!

I'd loved seeing your site come together on the alpha builds. Let me know if you need any help with the upgrade, and I haven't forgotten about the status update conversion.

Awesome news! For the self hosted clients, I'd imagine this is an opportunity to clean up a lot of old/unused v4 files as well given the significant changes in v5. Is that handled as part of the v5 upgrade or would you recommend we do some cleanup before/after?

Wonderful ✌.

This is wonderful news, I'm happy to have contributed even if only a little during the testing period.

It's satisfying to see this new phase coming to IPS!

Thank you to all the developers and people involved, because this software goes beyond codes; it's a mix of management, ideas, discussions and development!

So congratulations to everyone, I hope to become a CLOUD client in the future and enjoy the features that caught my attention the most.

For now, I'll continue with the classic.

By the way, do I need to download version 5 or ?

a new baby is born..

glad to hear the good news… now let us watch how it grows ☺️

thanks for the long trip that we goes hand in hand … it was interesting to follow you guys during the whole Alpha and Beta testing..

Hi, is there a changelog or something showing what are the new functions of the 5.0 version (compared to 4.X) ?

 

Hi, is there a changelog or something showing what are the new functions of the 5.0 version (compared to 4.X) ?

Yes!, Have a look here: https://invisioncommunity.com/features/whats-new-in-5/

 

Awesome news! For the self hosted clients, I'd imagine this is an opportunity to clean up a lot of old/unused v4 files as well given the significant changes in v5. Is that handled as part of the v5 upgrade or would you recommend we do some cleanup before/after?

The upgrader will take care automatically of all the changes needed with the vanilla out of the box system. Data added by third party stuff isn't covered. You will have to clean them up on your own.

Will the free trial update to IPS5?

 

Will the free trial update to IPS5?

Existing trials created before today will not be updated, however new trials moving forward will use 5.0.0.

Is there any chance that there will be public sandbox instances? It would be nice to poke around in a sandbox without the whole process of setting up everything.

I have not yet wrapped my head around what the migration means for my cloud site. There is not much custom on my site but there is a little. I am unsure if I need to hire a dev to get everything right or if I can wing it.

 

Is there any chance that there will be public sandbox instances? It would be nice to poke around in a sandbox without the whole process of setting up everything.

Our community here is running version 5 so you can poke around on the user side of things. If you want to poke around in the admin side of things, you can create a Free Trial 😊

 

I have not yet wrapped my head around what the migration means for my cloud site. There is not much custom on my site but there is a little. I am unsure if I need to hire a dev to get everything right or if I can wing it.

I'd suggest starting your own topic and asking questions in the Community Manager area if you need specifics. Without going too detailed, applications/plugins need to be rewritten (you'd need a developer), themes need to be re-done. Themes are entirely different and amazing results can be had by yourself.

 

Awesome news! For the self hosted clients, I'd imagine this is an opportunity to clean up a lot of old/unused v4 files as well given the significant changes in v5. Is that handled as part of the v5 upgrade or would you recommend we do some cleanup before/after?

Yes, it's best to clean up before the upgrade. That way, you'll have a nice tidy clean house for the new furniture 😀.

Here is what I did, which gave the best functioning upgrade when beta testing. Manually delete all plugins. Manually disable all apps that store data in the database that you need, as later, when a v5 version for those apps is released, you will regain that data that the app stores. Manually delete all other apps that don't store data in the database. Create a new theme, set it to the default theme, and then manually delete all other IPS and custom themes. Manually delete the Pages app custom templates if you have any. The idea is to return IPS to its default state before the upgrade. All these steps may not be needed for your setup, but those steps worked for my setup.

 

Here is what I did, which gave the best functioning upgrade when beta testing. Manually delete all plugins. Manually disable all apps that store data in the database that you need, as later, when a v5 version for those apps is released, you will regain that data that the app stores. Manually delete all other apps that don't store data in the database. Create a new theme, set it to the default theme, and then manually delete all other IPS and custom themes. Manually delete the Pages app custom templates if you have any. The idea is to return IPS to its default state before the upgrade. All these steps may not be needed for your setup, but those steps worked for my setup.

I'm not sure if I would recommend this approach, to be honest. Deleting plugins means you wipe any settings that the 3rd party author might transfer to an app. It's not necessary to disable applications, as the upgrader will do that automatically (and it will lock them as well).

I'm also not sure that I would delete Pages templates. You may want them for reference.

Deleting themes is probably a good idea, though.

Is there an upgrade doc for self-hosted owners???

 

Is there an upgrade doc for self-hosted owners???

It's the same upgrade procedure as with the previous versions. The section you need is called: Manual Upgrade.

 

Deleting themes is probably a good idea, though.

Is there any benefit to deleting themes before versus after? Or is deleting them via the ACP after not possible (i.e. they are removed from the ACP)?

 

Is there any benefit to deleting themes before versus after? Or is deleting them via the ACP after not possible (i.e. they are removed from the ACP)?

It is not a problem to delete them after the upgrade.

The problems that make a hasty upgrade pointless, at least for me, are the malfunctioning of database pages - not a single page of mine is visualized in the front end. All articles are visible in ACP, but that's it. Whatever settings I tried - to no avail.

A newly created database page is OK.

Otherwise yes - the 4.7.20 -> 5.0 upgrade went smoothly and without any remarks.

I spent 3 hours today trying to visualize pages - but no and no. For now I gave up and restored a backup to 4.7.20

Apparently I need to build my entire site on the test site like this, with all pages and blocks, before my next upgrade attempt.

I had created blocks in 4.7.20, an exact copy of the ones I am testing with on the test site. After the upgrade I easily created the same home page.

That is. In my opinion, a long preparation is required before an upgrade (otherwise it's a huge headache... and frustration).

 

Deleting themes is probably a good idea, though.

Does this apply to ones created by changing colors in the ACP? Will they not transfer over to IPS5.x?

 

Does this apply to ones created by changing colors in the ACP? Will they not transfer over to IPS5.x?

No, those changes will not transfer to version 5.

I don't see the IPB 5.0 download button nor do I see a request upgrade link.

The v5 download link is in the client area.

 

The v5 download link is in the client area.

I specifically don't have this. That is the reason for my post here.
Thank you

Anyone on support still, I neeeeeeed you 😂

I can't upload any forum icons as they "violate community standards" apparently.

Also, front/global/globaltemplate isn't showing to hook a template into the head.

Stuck on these two and can't go live again until fixed. Dropped a support email but not sure if it's been received, seems to be an issue with my email address, incoming going to junk and delayed, outgoing probably the same.