Invision Community 5.0.5 Beta 1 Released

Mr Milchick approved

We're back with a brand new release! This release fixes a few of the bigger issues reported over the past couple of releases.

Elasticsearch

For those using Elasticsearch, please note that the new minimum version for Elasticsearch is now 8.0, with the latest version 8.17 recommended. Those using Elastic search in v5.0.4 and earlier (including all of v4) will need to upgrade their Elasticsearch server, and then rebuild the search index.

We chose to update to the latest version of Elasticsearch as v7 is no longer supported and there's been some document level changes in how data is stored. We've tested it thoroughly but let us know if you find anything odd!

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!

Coming up soonish

There's some discussion around sluggish javascript in some areas. This looks to be specific to Chrome and occasionally Safari, which honestly has taken a nose dive in quality recently. We think we know why, but it's taking some time to figure it all out. Essentially, we think it's some parts of our older javascript framework struggling with the new CSS framework. We'll get it figured out, but I wanted you to know that we're on it.

Beta 2 is on it's way!

We've fixed a bunch of bugs and now Topic Summaries works. It's the first time we'll be testing this in the real world, so we'll likely tweak the algorithm and improve its choices as we learn more about how it feels in use.

Emojis are still small and slow. 😭

Edited Sunday at 07:58 PM4 days by bags_ppp

5.0.5 Released

The final release is beta 2 with one other fix. Let me know how you get on.

Upgraded. 🦘

 

I see ads.txt redirect, where is that, sorry for being thick here.

Found it now I’m not under the influence of alcohol. Although on a positive note, the fact you can be drunk and easily update your forum with no issues, that should be on the sales page!

For anyone else that was wondering, it’s in Advertisements as expected, and in this drop down menu.

 

Although on a positive note, the fact you can be drunk and easily update your forum with no issues, that should be on the sales page!

May or may not be untested

 

now Topic Summaries works.

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong but can't see them on my forum yet! No background tasks currently running.

Just gone to 5.0.5 - cleared system cache, turned topic summaries off then back on, looked for a widget in the page editor...

And I'm not even drunk 😂

 

Perhaps I'm doing it wrong but can't see them on my forum yet! No background tasks currently running.

Just gone to 5.0.5 - cleared system cache, turned topic summaries off then back on, looked for a widget in the page editor...

And I'm not even drunk 😂

The initial process is kicked off by a task, if you search for 'rank' in the task manager then run it, it should start populating. It runs every hour. If you are drunk, or can't find it let me know and I can do it for you.

@beats23 In our test-installation (not the actual site) I tested to embed PDFs in the Bulk Mail editor (i.e. from the Admin Dashboard) and that worked well.

However, it seems one big fix was not in 5.0.5, adding an image in the editor and have a URL connected to that (in the Bulk Mail editor, or when starting a forum thread)