DNN is moving quickly with new and important functionality every quarter and monthly stabilization reseases in between. There is a lot more staff and developers working for DNN and the future really does look bright.

Unfortunately not everything is looking bright, e.g. most of my client portals are still on 5.2.3 (mid February) or 4.9.5 (last year), the reason being is that I did not dare to upgrade. The last 8 releases (if I am counting correctly) have had issues with certain well known module I frequently use, localization problems or page management problems and more. I don't want too sound harsh, but want to make a point that having another stabalization release may actually be a good thing, especcially with the big 5.5 release coming up. E.g. problems like page management issues: 12892, 12908 that severly influences content management by clients, but there are a significant number of other high severty issues that are equally important.

Based on experience, the planned 5.5 release will solve a number of issues, but will likely introduce other (and severe ones). It will likely take a number of iterations (months) before the ML features will be stable enough for commercial use.

So my question is: what do you think, is another stabalization relase a good thing?

Peter

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Peter Schotman
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Peter, I cannot disagree, but given the situation, that the release schedule, which has been set up by DNN Corp. Board of Directors / Advisory Board needs to be fulfilled by the development team, it doesn't sound realistic to me.

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Sebastian Leupold

   

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I would also love to see more stabilization releases.  Though, there are challenges that perhaps prevent that from happening, one of which Sebastian pointed out.  

However, the engineers are more than aware of what needs to be done to ensure quality (probably more than any of us), and they are putting more controls and checks into place to further solidify all releases.  I am excited to see these work, as I know everyone else is too.  :)

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Will Strohl

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