Invision Community 5.0.4 Beta 1 is now available

Please celebrate responsibly.

A whole two weeks has passed since our last release. The extra week allowed us to fully review a few larger updates that we've held back and require a beta or two to fully test before we're happy to include in a full release.

Things to test

There have been some areas that have received a lot of attention and need extra special testing, these include:

• Page Editor (now works correctly for right-to-left languages but needs some testing in LTR)

• Custom badges (lots of work to make them more efficient and store a built version in SVG format)

• Editor bug fixes (lots of complex fixes, so please test the editor thoroughly)

If you want a full list of changes, you can see that here. The release notes also have some changes which may impact third party developers.

Using Betas

If you do not see an upgrade, it means that you do not have betas enabled.

Invision Community Cloud

Cloud customers can opt-in to betas in the client area.

Invision Community Classic

Self-hosting customers can either download the release from the client area, or add the following line to constants.php

define( 'USE_DEVELOPMENT_BUILDS', TRUE );

If you do not have this file, create it in a text editor, so the contents looks like:

<?php

define( 'USE_DEVELOPMENT_BUILDS', TRUE );

Let me know how you get on!

11 minutes ago, CheersnGears said:

#4003: Add "offset" option to all content widgets	 

My ask from V4.0 is complete!

This is so transformative for Pages. Thank you to @Esther E. for taking the time with me to understand the use case for it. I can now build a News front page from stock IPS without having to build custom blocks.

4 hours ago, bosss said:

Nice @Matt but from v 5.0.0 we could not get fix for this https://invisioncommunity.com/invision-community-5-bug-tracker/guests-can-not-swich-themes-same-error-v-504-beta-1-r851/

Not only me - more users 😀🎉😀

I tracked down the issue. Hopefully fixed in the next release.

If you turned on Rewrite URLs via the ACP > Search Engine Optimisation (and added the .htaccess), the issue will go away now. :)

Thanks @Matt the update for 5.0.4 Beta 1 and 2 work fine, and that is amazing this is a big updated !

Thanks for all TEAM IPS.

6 minutes ago, bosss said:

my main site - https://www.oldlibar.com/ can guest switch Theme (v5.0.4 Beta 2)

My test site - https://www.oldlibar.com/testips5/ - NO Guests and NO Members (admin) Can not change Theme (v5.0.4 Beta 2) - (blank page witt text "here"

Made htaccess for main site and for my test site

bouth sites has Rewrite URLs enabled

some solution?

Regards 👍😀

Have you checked your hosting provider's compatibility before installing IC5?

I know that each update takes a different amount of time to complete, but another Kudos I think the IPS team deserves for IPS5 is that it rips through applying its updates significantly faster than IPS4 ever did.

Running on the same server with an exact copy of my database and files, the IPS5 install is sooooo much faster to process.

8 hours ago, RevengeFNF said:

The new Editor is still slow on any Chromium based browser.

If we try to type very fast or delete very fast, it will become very slugish

Can you please share the browser version and machine you are using?

5 hours ago, teraßyte said:

It's not the editor itself that's slow, but the whole JavaScript framework. Anything JS-related is slow (editor, tooltips, menus, selecting checkboxes, etc).

There are already multiple bug reports about it.

Yes, that's is correct. The issue ultimately lies in Chrome itself, but we are addressing it to the best of our ability, applying a fix whenever we identify a source of slowness. That said, it's one of those things that doesn't affect any of the devices used by members of our staff which makes it hard to track down.

Does it have gallery application?

3 hours ago, yacenty said:

Does it have gallery application?

Yes, it is included in Ips 5, along with the Blogs, Pages etc.

On 3/25/2025 at 11:19 AM, Matt Finger said:

Can you please share the browser version and machine you are using?

Using the last version of Brave Browser on Windows, that is based from Chromium v134.

Same happens on the last Chrome version.

A cannot replicate it on Android, using the same Browsers.