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 June 16Jun 16 by RevengeFNF

Updated. Thanks for the hard work!

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.

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.

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.

5.0.19 Beta 3 is now available.

Changes include:

#7159 Fix dropdown positioning in Chrome 125–128
#7166 Fix an activity stream performance regression introduced in 5.0.19 Beta

Really looking forward to the stable release of this. It could solve "all" my problems :~)

5.0.19 is now available!

There's one very very small change since the last beta:

#7226 Adds member_badge_awarded webhook