SMF 2.0 Beta 3 Public Released!

[Gary]

On the theme site, but there's not many of them at the moment.

[TarantinoArchives]

can't wait to see this new version going final. great job really

[Nolt]

btw. the final release of SMF 2.0 will have a new look of default theme?

[metallica48423]

most likely.

nothing is solid as of yet though

[arabiancoder]

Thanks, I bet its going to be from better to best!

Keep up the good work and looking forward to see it on a final stable release.

[babylon]

he guys...i know there's a warning not to use the beta's on a production site,but simplemachines.org runs on SMF 2.0 Beta 3 Public,and thats a full big forum...
is there a difference in the risk if someone uses it as a little forum or a big one like simplemachines.org  ?
Any news on when to expect the final ?..

[Eliana Tamerin]

SMF also has the whole dev team able to bugfix on their forum. The reason why Beta 3 isn't recommended for production use yet is because there would be too many support requests for the staff to handle. Beta software is understood to be buggy, it's not smoothed out yet. There have been numerous issues with these forums, the most famous being IE's code select problem. Yet they're able to get quickly smoothed out by the devs here.

If Beta 3 was released as the final version, SMF would be putting out patches every few weeks. I'd prefer they keep it as a beta, collect the bug fixes/feature improvements in one big package to give us Beta 4 or RC 1 whenever it happens.

[karlbenson]

Any news on when to expect the final ?..

Last time i read a developers comment on that in a public forum (i think a dev blog) it was said final before the end of the year.  Although I'm not sure whether that was in jest.

[[кѕ]ваηε-σ]

off topic, but what does RC 1 stand for?


and explain this IE's code select problem...




thx,and sorry for the off-topicness

[karlbenson]

Release Candidate

[babylon]

Is anyone running this release on a production site...and how is it going ?

[Gary]

A few people are running 2.0 Beta 3 Public on their sites, Multi Talk 2 is, as is this forum you're posting on right now.

[babylon]

well i have a small forum....
like 7 forum cats with a total of maybe 120 topics...
would it be to dangerous to upgrade ?

[riker]

Well I'm in no rush to upgrade.  Even when it's gone from RC to final I'll most likely leave it till we have more hacks/mods are updated for it

[Gary]

well i have a small forum....
like 7 forum cats with a total of maybe 120 topics...
would it be to dangerous to upgrade ?

My community is larger than that, and is running 2.0. So It shouldn't be too much of an issue to run 2.0 on your forum. But do be aware that bugs can pop up. At the end of the day, it's your call entirely.

[babylon]

thanks,yes i realise that..
the only thing / mod i have installed that i would care about is the mod that you can show banners....
But i have no idea if that guy updated it yet...

[Eliana Tamerin]

Ad Management? No, it hasn't yet.

[babylon]

ah thats a shame..
to bad they are so behind on the development..

[青山 素子]

to bad they are so behind on the development..

Remember that this is just a beta, not an actual release. Also, the theme code will be changing soon, so mods that touch the themes are likely not to be updated until those changes land.

[babylon]

So does anybody have any idea when the final release will be ?