Matt

Changed Current Release to No

It will be insert only via the template hooks, but you can use CSS and/or JS to remove parts of the DOM if you wanted to do that.

Speed, efficiency, reduced storage needs and no rebuilding as we now compile templates at the time we build a new version and store into a new /static/ directory which will not change for the lifespan of that version. The ability to edit core templates is probably a bad idea as it can break a lot of functionality. You can insert HTML before/inside before/after/ inside after via the template hook system as above. You can still add custom CSS and JS too.

Only on cloud at the moment so we have a single stable hosting environment for the early rounds of testing. We also have access to databases, files and can easily mass deploy updates.

Exciting news! Alpha 2 has now been released, and it's now using our build system which means these installations are upgradable (hopefully 😬) and these are 'real' Invision Community 5 installations. I've sent out a bunch more alpha invites now that the initial round of testing has completed. 🎉

Changed Release Date to 06/27/2024

Changed Beta Release to Yes

👀 From the first commit (mostly v4 at that point) to the first real alpha: 2059 commits in just over a year.

ETA 2 minutes...

Who wants another blog entry today? 😮

Little update: bugs are being squashed slightly faster than they are being reported, which is a good sign. We've got two blogs queued up, one for tomorrow and one for next week. I've just seen the video Ehren has put together and it's his best yet. It's fitting that he opened the v5 video blogs, and has created the last. That should be out next week. We will have a bunch of other blogs after, but this is the last major feature reveal. As for alpha testing v5, don't worry because... (After we've got things a little more stable or the bug report forum will be like Harry Potter's living room but instead of trying to stop Harry opening an invitation to Hogwarts, I'll be trying to stop our devs from having a breakdown).

Around 45 bugs fixed so far, with another 39 in the queue.

How's your Thursday going?

It is no longer flawless.

Well, it appears that after 4 minutes, it's entirely flawless so we may as well just release final?

I've invited about 25 people in for the first few days. This is just to control the flow of reports in the early days. We expect there to be a lot, from the new demo system through to the product. Once things are a bit more stable, we'll invite everyone else in that has requested to test. Thanks all!

Only 2? That's amazing as you built the deployment system. It means it only broke once?

Who is ready for an alpha site to play with?

No, but it might be worth considering a one-off script/tool that does this pre-upgrade.

Update: The alpha system has been built, and all the initial teething problems using Invision Community v5 without IN_DEV have been fixed. As mentioned above, currently all JS/themes and CSS is built on demand, and rebuilt on demand (often quite a lot). In v5 it's built once per version and stored in a new location, so there were some teething issues with that. We'll test this new system internally today and if all goes well, we can start getting people in tomorrow.

I mean, that's a work of beauty. I recently did something similar by collecting all the cables, small electronics (USB hubs, etc) and put them in a single plastic crate. Now I know where to go when I need something, and if it's not there, I can buy a new one. 😆 @Esther E. has been busy listening to your feedback, and she's implemented two changes (I'll update the blog shortly). The first, is that we're going to convert all your open tags over on upgrade, be that 10 or 10,000. You can then decide if you want to delete any from the AdminCP post conversion. The second is a bulk tag add/remove tool via multi-moderation.

There's plenty of time to think about how you want tags to work in v5 and when you are ready to upgrade you can tweak tags on your v4 prior to upgrading.

Yes, all these, regardless of how many, will be converted.