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1/27/2009 7:34 PM
 

Is there an ETA on the working version of DNN 5.  I upgraded a few sites when it first came out and they are now extremely buggy. Back around Christmas, there were posts stating that there were quite a few fixes made already and that a new release was close.  Well... that was a month ago.

I am just curious, I think the new features in 5 are cool and I dont want to have to install an older version, just to have a working install. 

 

Thanks,

Tony Dodd

www.technospecialties.com

 
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1/28/2009 4:42 AM
 

Tony,

DNN 5.0.1 will be published when it's finished, packaged and tested. There have already more than 80 issues fixes since DNN 5.0.0 and there are still a few to go but it should happen within the next weeks.


Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

dnnWerk - The DotNetNuke Experts   German Spoken DotNetNuke User Group

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1/31/2009 6:25 PM
 

two weeks ago I fell into the trap of upgrading to 5.0.0 because I believed (oh silly me) the statement on DNN site

"DotNetNuke 5.x is available as a general public release which means it can reliably be used in a production environment."

After thinking that I was doing something wrong everyday while my production site and users suffered. I finally researched and found ALL these problems are known to the core team.

A simple question: Why hasn't this release been pulled down?

Caz

 
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1/31/2009 10:08 PM
 

5.0.1 will be released very soon we hope... all of us are definately waiting for this, I'm really very enthusiastic about this upcoming release and we shall see how this handles with the community  :)

Always remember though, it is up to you to test to see if it's up to YOUR standards, never ever take anything for granted in anything, esp when you put your money into a bank for instance.



Alex Shirley


 
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2/2/2009 12:49 AM
 

Hi Caz,

I have been using version 5.0.0 for some time now without any issues.  Also, with open source initiatives it is assumed (unfortunately) that we are participants in a collective effort with the theory that input by users who are benefitting from a "free" application will be eager to help in resolving bugs.  There are too many of us who seem to expect that if a program is used by a company or business, we should be afforded all of the same benefits as someone who has outsourced their work to application developers.  Here are some general rules I would recommend to you and anyone else in your situation:

  1. If you are not an application developer familiar with ASP.NET, then do not even look at initial releases of major upgrades.  Even the technically less savy among us know to hold back rollouts of Microsoft production releases until the first service release.  If you are a developer and do run into issues, fix them and report your findings here OR do NOT rollout to a production environment.
  2. Even after a service release such as 5.0.1 are you expecting that a refresh will resolve all of your problems?  Not only is there no such thing as bug free code, but have you considered that the issues might be on your side, wholly apart from anything that has to do with DotNetNuke?  Vista, Win2K8, IIS 7, and a new framework can all present configurations changes which is your responsibility to setup, secure, and have working in a stable fashion.
  3. Never release anything to production without your "poor" users testing it.  At the very least you can all share the blame if the rollout flops as in your case.  At a minimun you should have a Development, Quality Assurance, and Production environment, yet your post gives me the impression you shot from the hip directly into production on some pretence which is simply not fair to the DotNetNuke team.  The suffering of your users is your responsibility, yet the patient and industrial developers who give their own time and energy would and do encourage your feedback but understand it is a two-way street and you need to provide the best information possible or your questions will simply get passed up.
  4. Remember to test all of your 3rd party modules and never assume they are all backward compatible.  You may need to do more than test on a new installation if your site is being upgraded.  In any case, test an environment which will most closely resemble the upgrade/update path you will be using when you plan to deploy to production.
  5. Finally, if you are going to blow off some steam you should find the time to thank the team when things are working well, as they appear to have been prior to this "silly" upgrade.

I do not like to see that fellow IT professionals are suffering, and its a tough industry to be in - for various reasons.  In your case you obviously brought this on yourself and I hope that such cavalier attitudes toward software deployment and resulting quips about all things negative do not influence the resolve of the talented developers who I am certain are working as hard as ever to see that the next release is a great success.  Having not contributed in any way to this effort though, I plan to keep my posts, should I have any, as helpful as I possibly can.

 
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