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An update on 2.0

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Grudge:
So, it's now mid-June and I feel it only fair to give an update on the status of 2.0 - especially considering we've said we are hoping to get the Charter Member beta out this month. I'm afraid to say it's highly unlikely that we're going to meet our target date of June for the first beta release. Unfortunately as with so many projects (least of all free ones) we've hit a couple of bumps in the road which have meant we're not quite where we want to be.

Firstly - the development team have been a little distracted recently. We've had a few long standing bugs to iron out with 1.1 that have taken precedence over 2.0 development. In addition both myself and Compuart have, until recently, been pretty much fully occupied in real life reducing the available resource on 2.0. All this in total probably means we've effectively lost a month.

Secondly - bugs. We've been working really hard the last few weeks to squash as many bugs as possible - and are now down to about 100 bugs on the tracker - but we need to get it lower still. Even though it's the first beta we're determined to release something that is reasonably stable and bug free - we don't want to chuck in a load of new features and find none of them work as expected. For this reason we've added very few feature improvements to 2.0 over the last six weeks - instead preferring to satisfy ourselves that we're going to be releasing a solid beta to the Charter Members.

It's however not all bad news. We've been cleaning up the user interface for the new features a bit the last few weeks and giving them a little spit and polish (Although more is required). I finally got around to adding some new SSI functionality that has been requested by the community over the last few months. We've added a few small but nice featuers like ignoring users - but these too need a little cleaning up. Importantly for me I've managed to track down and solve many of the reported WYSIWYG bugs which have been giving myself and users headaches the last few months.

So, in summary, we're a little late with our first beta release but it is getting there. I'm on holiday quite a bit in the next month and I doubt it will get released whilst I'm away but I'm hoping that we will get it out for our Charter Members by early August... but things can change. This does go to show why we don't normally give out release dates - because they can be missed.

Daniel15:
You as well as the rest of the developers are doing an awesome job on SMF 2.0 - keep up the great work! :D


--- Quote --- I finally got around to adding some new SSI functionality that has been requested by the community over the last few months.
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Wow, really? I'll need to take a look at that :)

Dragooon:
awww I am depressed...
But still Keep up the great work!!!

shadow82x:
I see a lot of improvements in the editer! I think stable is better. Still good work.. Are you devs. still busy?

Dragooon:
I think yea they are always busy.

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