5.0.19 is Ready for Match Day

At the highest level, success is often decided by the smallest details.

A perfectly timed pass, A moment of composure. The tiny adjustments that separate a good performance from a great one.

Software development is often the same.

Major features often grab the headlines, it's the countless refinements behind the scenes that shape the day-to-day experience. The fixes that prevent a rare edge case. The accessibility improvements that make navigation easier. The performance optimizations that save a fraction of a second, thousands of times a day.

This release is full of those improvements, and unlike England at the World Cup, hopefully won’t fall apart after 60 minutes.

You can find the full change log here

Focused Beta Testing

This release contains significant changes to our OpenSearch and Elasticsearch integration.

We've moved to batched queue inserts to smooth out latency spikes and removed update_by_query operations during inserts, resulting in a more efficient indexing process.

If you're participating in the beta, we'd particularly appreciate testing:

• Search results and relevance

• Activity Streams

• Content indexing

• New content appearing in search

• General search performance under normal community activity

As always, thank you for helping us fine-tune the details before the final release.

@Stuart Silvester i see that there are a lot of fixes to Elasticsearch.

Can you confirm if this bug was fixed in this release?

Edited Tuesday at 11:26 AM4 days by RevengeFNF

Just now, RevengeFNF said:

@Stuart Silvester i see that there are a lot of fixes to Elasticsearch.

Can you confirm if this bug was fixed in this release?

If you cannot replicate it on our site, then consider it fixed! There were some fixes to the unread functionality.

Just now, Matt said:

If you cannot replicate it on our site, then consider it fixed! There were some fixes to the unread functionality.

Ok, thank you. I will test it on my site when the stable release is out.

Updated. Thanks for the hard work!

This version supports Opensearch 2.x and 3.x.

For Elasticsearchg, it's the same 8.x versions or does it support the new 9.x version?

PS: For self host users, what is the recommended, Opensearch, Elasticsearch or it's basically the same?

1 hour ago, RevengeFNF said:

This version supports Opensearch 2.x and 3.x.

For Elasticsearchg, it's the same 8.x versions or does it support the new 9.x version?

PS: For self host users, what is the recommended, Opensearch, Elasticsearch or it's basically the same?

Currently, it's ES8 only. It will likely work, but we haven't fully tested it yet.

Opensearch is becoming more popular since it continues the open source project whereas Elasticsearch now as a proprietary license.

Gonna make me very happy... 2 of the 6or7 bugs/improvements to search i reported are in there.

#6995 Fix an issue where searching by titles only returned every post in a topic
#6996 Adjust links in search results to be more intuitive

Can you explain what the change is, as i did do a request for beter searching in private message.
The request was to be able to search in a message conversation. As it (5.0.18 ) now shows only the message the search term was found in, but it does not show where in the message.
Especially important, if you have 15pages of conversation.

#7007 Fix issues with searching the messenger folders

5 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Opensearch is becoming more popular since it continues the open source project whereas Elasticsearch now as a proprietary license.

Thanks.

If i switch to Opensearch from Elastic, will i notice any diference in performance or results, or it will be the same?

1 minute ago, RevengeFNF said:

Thanks.

If i switch to Opensearch from Elastic, will i notice any diference in performance or results, or it will be the same?

That's something I cannot answer, you would need to research the pros and cons of each platform.

supports PHP 8.4 ?

2 hours ago, Omri Amos said:

supports PHP 8.4 ?

5.0.x supports up to 8.3.

5.1 (in development) supports 8.5.

9 hours ago, Matt said:

5.1 (in development) supports 8.5.

Has an ETA been mentioned for 5.1?

8 hours ago, David.. said:

Has an ETA been mentioned for 5.1?

Later this year... 😁

Does anyone know when the theme editor will be fixed? It still doesn't work properly. I'm referring to my own changes added in the theme designer :/

3 hours ago, white020 said:

Does anyone know when the theme editor will be fixed? It still doesn't work properly. I'm referring to my own changes added in the theme designer :/

I've just responded to your topic there. There isnt actually a bug present. Its the way its being used. :)

Thank you for sorting out my license, so I can renew and remain active. 5.1 sounds exciting, and I look forward to its releae. @Ehren and the team have done a great job with it.