Invision Invision Community v5 enters Beta

[Daedalus]

Definitely exciting to see how communities use and integrate the new software additions within their communities. I may or may not have had a part in Cedric biting the bullet to renew

 

[Sinistra Sensei]

I think we are getting close to RC releases

 

[Cedric]

I think we are getting close to RC releases

Yeah. I've got the same idea. Loved how the latest BETA release changed the mobile app and the topic feed in the forum view.

 

[Cedric]

Invision Community 5: Beta testing and latest updates

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, ...

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A worthy share.

 

[Arantor]

I really enjoyed setting up my test site last night. Something about the IPS install process is broken - both 4.7 and 5.0 failed to install cleanly as per their instructions, dying with an error deep in the bowels of friendly URLs which clearly won’t work until the site has been installed. Unfortunately I wasn’t even getting to the “you have met the requirements” screen before it died trying to load a database connection.

I fixed it by installing a fresh 4.7, running into the same bug, patching the 4.7 to bypass loading friendly URLs, then upgrading to 5.0.

I dunno. Something about seeing it in front of me rather than in shiny videos feels underwhelming somehow (laughs)

 

[Cedric]

I really enjoyed setting up my test site last night. Something about the IPS install process is broken - both 4.7 and 5.0 failed to install cleanly as per their instructions, dying with an error deep in the bowels of friendly URLs which clearly won’t work until the site has been installed. Unfortunately I wasn’t even getting to the “you have met the requirements” screen before it died trying to load a database connection.

I fixed it by installing a fresh 4.7, running into the same bug, patching the 4.7 to bypass loading friendly URLs, then upgrading to 5.0.

I dunno. Something about seeing it in front of me rather than in shiny videos feels underwhelming somehow (laughs)

So you enjoyed troubleshooting the installation?

 

[Arantor]

Sarcasm doesn’t translate well in pure text.

 

[Cloaked]

I really enjoyed setting up my test site last night. Something about the IPS install process is broken - both 4.7 and 5.0 failed to install cleanly as per their instructions, dying with an error deep in the bowels of friendly URLs which clearly won’t work until the site has been installed. Unfortunately I wasn’t even getting to the “you have met the requirements” screen before it died trying to load a database connection.

I fixed it by installing a fresh 4.7, running into the same bug, patching the 4.7 to bypass loading friendly URLs, then upgrading to 5.0.

I dunno. Something about seeing it in front of me rather than in shiny videos feels underwhelming somehow (laughs)

I've installed it a few times now and didn't have any problems. I run Windows/IIS which they say isn't supported. With 3.x I had all kinds of problems. Since I've dove back in things have ran very well with 4.x and 5 beta.

I have run into a few 500 errors. Those are all from the way IIS handles foreign characters. Have to turn on request filtering. Other than that it works extremely well.

 

[Arantor]

I’m not running on anything exotic, it’s PHP 8.3 with MySQL and Apache. The issue I had was that it was trying to look up friendly URLs in the database before anything had installed which seems to me to be a bug somewhere…

 

[Cedric]

Beta 4 has been released.

#2590: Ensure rebuildLazyLoading queue is initiated during upgrade to Beta 4
#2548: Added legacy support for Javascript lazyloads as a fall back
#2569: Block widgets from specific areas
#2575: Fix duplicate error codes
#2579: Fix issue with invalid date parameters
#2580: Add AVIF support where needed
#2581: Fix exception on widget EditorLocation
#2582: Fix issue where upload field only shows the raw URL
#2583: Use customizable language strings instead of hardcoded phrases in the editor
#2591: Polished the "ipsData" designs to allow for easier customization
- Issue #2496: [B3-SH][Pages][Database] Wallpaper view tag class missing
- Issue #2596: [B3-SH][Pages][Feed Widget] Not show content properly!
#2592: Added support for "legacy v4 grids" to prevent broken UI's after upgrading
#2608: Fix issues with database import and export
#2609: Fix error editing new database CSS
#2610: Fix issue where database category selection in the ACP shows all categories from all databases
#2611: Fixed some display issues with .ipsButtonGroup
#2614: Tab scrollers were added to the Tags widget
#2615: Removed duplicate "locked" icon from Downloads header
#2616: Improved contrast of text in announcements
#2617: Improved the UI of the Deleted and Hidden Content pages
#2604: Fix error when Pages is the default application
#2574: Cache changes and improvements from v4
#2567: Report Center improvements from v4
#2550: Support multiple toggles for the same field
#2560: Improved the JS headers of some files
#2542: Don't double escape quote citations
#2545: Create fallback FURL for new modcp extensions
#2547: Fix issue where adding a message to a form can throw an error
#2549: Fix error on profile when member has followers disabled
#2551: Allow whitespace in the metion query
#2552: Fix issue where blog comments cannot be deleted
#2554: Hide Category Listing template option when no categories are used
#2556: Allow sub-menus to be added under the root level
#2557: Fix issues with importing themes
#2558: Fix exception when deleting a database with an upload field
#2559: Fix issues with copying tags in the ACP
#2561: Improved UI of Warning panel in profiles
#2570: Fix error on refunding an invoice
#2571: Fix "View All" button on the tag page
#2572: Remove deprecated status templates
#2573: Fix issue where number of record reviews was always 0
#2563: Hidden content issue
#2546: Fix issue where Comment class does not check for hideable
#2502: Added missing language strings
#2503: Fix issue where forum feed view does not show all the latest posts
#2509: Add a template hook to the modcp header
#2513: Fixes an issue where the REST API was throwing an undefined array key error
#2532: Fixed some alignment issues with the Topic Overview panel
#2494: Replaced the hardcoded 'lock‘ string