Happy Valentines day, here's a gift from us to you!

For those of you not celebrating this weekend, why not check out 5.0.16 Beta 1!

This is our monthly updates and improvements release. You can see the full changelog here.

Along with the usual fixes, we've got some notable changes in this release:

• You can now use profile completion as a trigger for Achievements, awarding points or badges to those who have filled in all of their profile information.

• Events can now be removed from search when they're in the past. This functionality can be enabled on a per-Calender basis.

• User accessibility improvements:

  • Updated aria labels, tab index values, form fields and buttons.

  • Updated dialogs to be usable via keyboards (you may notice they're quicker to open, too!).

• Made more progress removing old unused JavaScript libraries, templates and controllers, helping to reduce the amount of JavaScript we use when loading a page. Watch this space for more in future.

Installed on test-install without any problems.

On 2/12/2026 at 7:24 PM, Moestuin said:

Installed on test-install without any problems.

In the production as well. 😁

Beta 2 is here!

Changes since beta 1 include:

#6645 Fix color of summary in Stream Subscriptions in dark emails
#6653 Improved accessibility of Registration form
#6674 Restored large, bold text for dropdown headers
#6678 Fixed visibility of carousel navigation in blocks
#6687 Prevent labels from falling to their own line

5.0.16 is now available!

There are some minor changes since the previous beta:

#6706 Improved Voice Over alerts with registration form errors
#6710 Update UnderscoreJS to 1.13.8

4 minutes ago, media said:

Not sure but something changed with the new version: POSITIVE

First info: 1 million posts, 200000 topics and 100000 members

Few days ago, and before than I ran Google page speed test (I regularly do this) and got this:

Mobile

Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed

Performance: 88

Accessibility: 91

Best Practices: 99

SEO: 89

Desktop

Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed

Performance: 89

Accessibility: 93

Best Practices: 99

SEO: 92

But today I ran after latest version upgrade: 5.0.16 I got this

Mobile

Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed

Performance: 92

Accessibility: 96

Best Practices: 100

SEO: 92

Desktop

Core Web Vitals Assessment: Failed

Performance: 95

Accessibility: 93

Best Practices: 100

SEO: 92

Also Core Web Vitals Assessment failed but new version very close to go green....

Question is why new version makes this much difference?

What changed to affect page loads???????

Note: Numbers are average of multiple tests

• Made more progress removing old unused JavaScript libraries, templates and controllers, helping to reduce the amount of JavaScript we use when loading a page. Watch this space for more in future.

@media My forum after the update: 93 performance points on mobile and 96 on desktop.

UI/UX changes and code optimization are key priorities for me. After the update, the forum noticeably sped up, which is great to see.

Edited February 24Feb 24 by DracoBlue

There seems to be an issue with the final 5.0.16 release. When you have an ipsDialog box open, you cannot scroll the site. It removes the scrollbars from the browser window.

Ooof!!! That sucks! I’ll being herded towards the upgrade cliff due to PHP, but my apps likely won’t work going from 4 to 5!

Well I guess it’s work just gonna be a lot of testing and updating apps (I have 3). Thank you @Gary appreciate your guidance.

anyone here who has made the jump from 4 to 5 comment on how difficult it was to update apps so they work in 5? With how well using Claude works now (and it’s only getting better), I would think this isn’t going to be too bad. Is 5 that drastically different when it comes to apps that a slight adjustment to an existing 4.x app won’t work?

And of course @Gary ! Backups backups backups

28 minutes ago, cascadeclimbers said:

Yeah I got the full rundown from Claude. I have a plan. 6 months ago I would have been in a bad spot with all this, but the world is far different now.

“The authors”. 😉. This is gonna take a lot of tokens.

Make a subdomain like beta.yourdomain.com and restore a backup from your www to that.
Then adjust config/make that domain working, protect with .htaccess user/pass so it won't be public for everyone.
Use your -testinstall key from invsion community.
Do the upgrade first on on you beta envoiremnt. Then style and fix the plugins what you need, when your don't you can copy over the config / changes when your going to upgrade your www.