Matt

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Sorry. It’ll be tomorrow now.

It's getting a bit late here in the UK. We'll get it out Monday.

Ehren, you look different today.

This is wonderful Jimi! I'll get this out across our social channels.

I'm going to tag in our CSS maestro @Ehren for assistance.

A merge tags feature wouldn't be a bad idea for when people change their minds.

v4.* you can keep using MyISAM. It's only version 5 that enforces InnoDB.

We really require InnoDB for v5 as it's a vast improvement on MyISAM. As we develop new functionality, we want to make use of foreign keys which MyISAM doesn't support.

We do not mention account deletion, just to clarify.

Invision Community 4.7.19 will be released in November and contains many updates along with the report center improvements. While Invision Community 5 moves through the beta process, I wanted to let you know about all the updates coming in Invision Community 4. I've already spoken about the Report Center updates, which bring more professionalism and compliance to that area, and this blog will outline a few other highlights for the forthcoming release. Dormant Account Login Notification Keeping member accounts secure is a top priority for all community teams, and with data breaches containing usernames and passwords regularly shared on the dark web, it makes sense to be vigilant to a potential account takeover. Your members will now receive an email if a successful login occurs six months or more since the last log in to ensure the account is still in the right hands. If the account owner is not responsible for logging in, they can contact the community team to ensure the account is returned to the owner. Prepare for Invision Community 5 We have added a new information dashboard to the AdminCP so you can review the impact of the upgrade and ensure the PHP and MySQL versions are suitable. Of course, our Invision Community Cloud customers need not worry about this as we take care of it for you. You can also see impacting items you may want to know, such as deprecated and removed features that your community currently has enabled. This dashboard is a great starting point for evaluating your upgrade when the time comes. SEO Improvements We regularly review SEO best practices to ensure that your community presents itself in the best way to search engine bots and spiders. This update comes in two parts; the first is a new crawler setting to reduce links on the page for guests and search engine bots. This new feature removes hyperlinks around dates in comment feeds and removes the sharer menu item that shows the sharing box. These links dominate the crawl budget for little value, leaving little time for crawlers to work their way deeper into your content. The second SEO-focused feature is the permalinks to specific comments throughout the community. Currently, the permalinks point to a content handler (do=findComment&comment=123) that locates the correct page number and then issues a 301 redirect to the correct page (topics/1-topic-title/page/2/#comment-123). While 301 redirects are not a problem for search engines, and it's been a long time since a 301 redirect incurred any SEO penalty, the permalink is in a different format to the actual comment URL, which is handled via a fragment. Putting aside search engine optimization for a moment, working to eliminate a lot of redirects positively impacts performance. The new permalink is simply the actual link using a fragment to locate the post in the browser's viewport. This removes the need for a 301 redirect and reduces any search engine confusion over the permalinks canonical URL. Of course, the page number may change if topics are merged or many posts deleted, and we have some client scripting magic to handle that eventuality. It's an exciting time here at Invision Community with a brand new version in development and several new features for our stable product line. Let us know if you have any questions in the comments. View full blog entry

Looks great 🙂

If anyone is using V5 for their production site, or a public test site, drop the link below!

Looks brilliant!

I'll need to check. AWS forked ElasticSearch and it's been a bit muddy since then as they have both diverged quite a lot.

I need to do something with that font file. I'll add it to my list. Ideally it'd be added to the resources area anyway.

How do you think it'd work? It would only really be useful for a small amount of your content, and possibly only via Pages or Blogs?

It's Friday. It's the afternoon in the UK, so that can only mean... another beta release! Beta 4 is working its way through the cloud right now and should be available via your AdminCP soon. As always, the full list of changes is available via the release notes page. Those that upgraded from v4 and found white space where images in posts should have been will find this release should fix those "missing" images. Let me know how it goes!

Changed Current Release to No

Invision Community 5 is currently in beta testing for all customers with the Invision Community Classic license. Invision Community Cloud customers can request a private demo to test the latest version. After months of development work, we're pleased to move Invision Community into beta testing, the final phase before its stable release. We'd love your help to find the last few bugs. You can join our Invision Community 5 Beta Testing Club and download the beta onto your test site or request a cloud demo. During the early stages of testing, we've implemented a lot of feedback, and I wanted to show you a few of the key changes we've not discussed in previous news blogs. Image Resizing Our brand new Invision Community 5 editor has many great features and quality-of-life improvements, one being the ability to resize images via drag handles. You can still specify a precise pixel value in the image menu, but the ability to resize using grab handles makes it easier to find the right size for your images. ResizeImage.mp4 Embed Resizing We can also resize embeddable media, such as YouTube, in the same way as you resize images. You can resize by using the grab handles or set a specific pixel value, giving you fine control over the size of your embedded media. embedresize.mp4 Page Editor Widgets We spoke about our new page editor in a recent blog, but a common request was to make it easier to find the right widget without a lot of scrolling up and down the menu bar. We've implemented a search filter enabling you to quickly find the right widget and a favorites system to pin your most used widgets to access them much quicker. widgets.mp4 Pages Database Layout Options A common request has been to make changing the look of the Pages database index and listing easier. Currently, with Invision Community 4, this means coding new templates by hand or using one of the many excellent pre-designed templates available from third-party developers. With Invision Community 5, we've brought the same magic we used with widgets to databases, allowing you to select from many layout options such as rows, grids, and wallpapers. You can still use a custom template, but these new layout options make it much easier to get the UI you need for your community. pagesDatabase.mp4 These are just a few of the many changes implemented since we opened Invision Community 5 for testing. We hope to see you in the beta club soon! View full blog entry

Not at present, but it's a good idea. We can probably do that in v5 with the assign system.