Invision Community 5.0.9 Beta 1 has been released!

It's felt like a decade since our last beta, but it was only a month ago. Moving from almost weekly releases back to monthly makes the gap between releases feel like an eternity.

If you want the full list of changes, check out: https://invisioncommunity.com/release-notes-v5/509-beta-1-r43/

This release also adds some stats improvements (I'm about to write a blog about those...) and also adds Cloudflare's Turnstile CAPTCHA as an option.

We've got some communication to do around that, but briefly if you're an Invision Community Cloud customer and using the default reCAPTCHA option, then you'll be switched to Turnstile. There is no need to do anything and you won't need to sign up to get keys. We handle all that because that's what you're paying for. 😇

At the end of this year, the default keys that we ship with reCAPTCHA will stop working due to Google policy changes, so self-hosting customers will need to sign up for their own keys and/or consider other captcha options. If this all sounds confusing, don't worry - we'll be doing some communication around that and ACP bulletins to get you all straightened out.

Turnstile is a great CAPTCHA option and very good at being unobtrusive for real people but blocking bots. Give it a go!

Keep up the good work! Turnstile is indeed a far more superior option compared to CAPTCHA.

2 hours ago, ClawOfWinterfell said:

Can non-cloud clients still use Turnstiles? I use CloudFlare, and would like to still use it even if it meant I had to set it up.

Indeed. I’m a self hosted client and the setup was as simple as changing the spam prevention type in the ACP and registering your turnstile worker in cloudflare. Took 60 seconds and works flawlessly.

Probably by eliminating the many issues you have eliminated another one - the large LCP no longer exists, i.e. version 5.0.9 b1 has dramatically improved performance. Congratulations.

Beta 2 is out!

I just pressed the button on beta 2, which should be available now. There's nothing too dramatic in this release, just some fixes for stuff that should have worked in Beta 1. 😇

Your luck is in, because we've just released 5.0.9!

Update carried out without a hitch.

And I've now got the “Edit” choice up and running. Good job!

1 hour ago, Moestuin said:

@Jordan Miller Tried that a few times on my test install with 5.0.9. I don't have that issue.

Double quote issue is fixed for me now.

On 6/26/2025 at 4:53 PM, Mick79 said:

Update went fine - but I think the font has changed on my themes...

I could also be going quite, quite mad, so who knows?

Feel free to send me a PM with more details or report it as a bug in the tracker and I can look into this for you 👍