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Title: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Oldiesmann on July 16, 2015, 05:45:30 PM
Dear Users,

Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of the 2nd beta of SMF 2.1. This version contains many improvements over Beta 1 and also fixes many bugs that were discovered following its release. Among the notable improvements:

For full details of what has changed, please see our GitHub archive (http://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1).

Please remember that the minimum requirements of SMF have been increased to PHP 5.3.8+ and MySQL 5.0.3+ or PostgresSQL 8.0+. Servers running a lower version of either will not be able to run SMF 2.1 and we do not intend to support them. If you have a server running an older version, you can either upgrade your server software or stay at an older version of SMF. SMF 2.1 has also dropped support for IE6 and IE7 but will continue to work with IE9+ (although IE10+ is really recommended) and browsers having similar/fuller standards compliance (any modern version of Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera etc will be fine).

The general installation and upgrading procedure remains the same, however, once you upgrade from an older version to 2.1 you cannot go back, so please take careful consideration before upgrading any live site.. Have a look at Installing and Upgrading SMF (http://wiki.simplemachines.org/smf/Category:Installing_and_Upgrading) in the Online Manual to find out more. You cannot upgrade to 2.1 Beta 2 via the package manager; instead you will need to carry out the "Large Upgrade" process. SMF 2.1 can be obtained from the Download section (http://download.simplemachines.org/).

Please note: Because this is a beta release, translations and language strings other than English have not been finalized and may not be complete yet.

Finally, as always, this topic is not for support; discussion and support for 2.1 can be found in the new 2.1 support board (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=254.0).
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Looking on July 16, 2015, 05:58:28 PM
Good choice for storage engine.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Steve on July 16, 2015, 05:59:08 PM
Awesome. Kudos to everyone involved. ;D

Quote from: Oldiesmann on July 16, 2015, 05:45:30 PM
... this topic is not for support...

The only way you won't get support questions is if you lock the thread but then you (and the rest of the team) wouldn't get all the thanks you rightfully deserve. :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Night09 on July 16, 2015, 06:47:08 PM
Just got home from work and saw this good news! ;)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Kryzen on July 16, 2015, 07:06:53 PM
Quote from: Night09 on July 16, 2015, 06:47:08 PM
Just got home from work and saw this good news! ;)
That makes two of us. :)

Fantastic news, great work and thank you!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: CoreISP on July 16, 2015, 08:40:56 PM
Good job, thanks! :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: TomW on July 16, 2015, 09:43:15 PM
Excellent !  I can't wait for Beta 3 now  ;)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Sido on July 16, 2015, 09:53:50 PM
Quote from: Night09 on July 16, 2015, 06:47:08 PM
Just got home from work and saw this good news! ;)
I'm at work and saw this good news 📰 :D
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Bigguy on July 16, 2015, 09:55:01 PM
Awesome work everyone. Great to see.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Jaideejung007™ on July 16, 2015, 10:11:54 PM
Beta 2 is WAITING A LONG TIME.

Great news.

And hope for FINALLY VERSION IN Shortly.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Kindred on July 16, 2015, 10:21:01 PM
There will be at least one more beta release...
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Rumpa on July 16, 2015, 10:37:46 PM
Nice work again
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: igirisjin on July 17, 2015, 12:43:49 AM
Nice to see things moving.

Are all the 2.1 Beta 1 bugs fixed? I still see 129 issues on GitHub. It was around 126 for quite a long time.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Joomlamz on July 17, 2015, 12:50:46 AM
Nice work again
Thank you
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: iMiKK on July 17, 2015, 02:20:42 AM
thank you for SMF development team.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: mertusta on July 17, 2015, 02:42:17 AM
Great work guys, thanks a lot.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Shambles on July 17, 2015, 03:26:18 AM
Fine effort.


Quote from: Oldiesmann
... You cannot upgrade to 2.1 Beta 1 via the package manager ...
Shouldn't that say "2.1 Beta 2"?
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: gisfreak on July 17, 2015, 04:29:34 AM
congratulation Devs
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: live627 on July 17, 2015, 05:48:58 AM
Quote from: Shambles on July 17, 2015, 03:26:18 AM
Quote from: Oldiesmann
... You cannot upgrade to 2.1 Beta 1 via the package manager ...
Shouldn't that say "2.1 Beta 2"?
yes

fixed
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: GravuTrad on July 17, 2015, 10:51:51 AM
Great news
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: charlottezweb on July 17, 2015, 05:00:11 PM
Very cool - thanks!!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: saosangmo on July 17, 2015, 05:15:23 PM
Great news. Just installed and translate into Vietnamese
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: 青山 素子 on July 17, 2015, 05:17:48 PM
Great to see.

If you're still using RHEL 6 or CentOS 6, you can use the php54, php55u, or php56u packages from the IUS Community (http://iuscommunity.org/) repository. If you're using RHEL 5 or CentOS 5, there are also php54 packages at the same, but you really should be looking to update your core OS soon.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: HDB on July 17, 2015, 09:35:39 PM
Thanks for the constant innovation that you bring to the forum world.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: CountryLady on July 18, 2015, 01:30:25 AM
:D Fantastic News...

Thanks so much to all the SMF 2.1 Team~!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Alpay on July 18, 2015, 07:18:11 AM
Great news^^ good job
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Mstcool on July 18, 2015, 09:28:37 AM
Woot woot :D
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Antes on July 18, 2015, 09:46:39 AM
Nice :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Hey Arnold! on July 19, 2015, 11:05:09 AM
Beta 3 next year and RC 1 next year, RC 2 and RC 3 to 2017, release stable to 2018, long time in SMF.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Westwegoman on July 19, 2015, 12:35:49 PM
Quote from: Hey Arnold! on July 19, 2015, 11:05:09 AM
Beta 3 next year and RC 1 next year, RC 2 and RC 3 to 2017, release stable to 2018, long time in SMF.
Kinda hard on the team, eh?
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: A.SK on July 19, 2015, 04:00:24 PM
Good to go.

Lets upgrade tomorrow.

Thank you team & Oldiesmann too.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Night09 on July 19, 2015, 04:27:52 PM
Quote from: Hey Arnold! on July 19, 2015, 11:05:09 AM
Beta 3 next year and RC 1 next year, RC 2 and RC 3 to 2017, release stable to 2018, long time in SMF.

Sorry, I cant seem to find your list of bug reports and fixes on github that contibute to SMF being able to release by tommorow to keep you happy. ;)

Your welcome to help or wait just like anyone else or use another software if you dont want to wait.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: zilladotexe on July 19, 2015, 04:31:38 PM
Congrats to everyone involved, and thanks to the community for reporting bugs and suggesting fixes :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Lithtech on July 19, 2015, 07:30:27 PM
Awesome, cannot wait for the 'final release'
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: stmaxx on July 20, 2015, 07:35:53 PM
Thank you and I updated my test site and upgrade went well, no issues with the SMF.

again thanks and it a good sign for me!

regards,
Maxx
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Colin on July 20, 2015, 09:20:31 PM
Wahoo, thanks folks.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: stmaxx on July 21, 2015, 07:48:58 AM
Today I updated my theme site, SMF 2.0.10 to the SMF 2.1 Beta 2 and all went very good as far as installation, and It's cool that it does show old themes, so no one try to install them, Our portal installed without issue and works well on this, and I'll be working other tests shortly>!

So far Very Nice Job!

And the Core2 theme is nice also!

regards,
Maxx
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Illori on July 21, 2015, 08:02:24 AM
Quote from: stmaxx on July 21, 2015, 07:48:58 AM
And the Core2 theme is nice also!

it is named Curve2 not core2.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: stmaxx on July 21, 2015, 10:09:35 AM
Cool My Bad!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Ricky. on July 21, 2015, 01:39:06 PM
Thanks really nice to know .. :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: BigMike on July 21, 2015, 02:32:06 PM
More GREAT news from SMF. Thank you to everyone's hard work, we cannot WAIT for the new forum to be released!

Thank you times eleventy bazillion!

Regards,
BigMike
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Bigguy on July 22, 2015, 05:51:39 PM
Beta 2 was released on my birthday....cool. Nice work everyone. :)

(Just noticed that, lol)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: live627 on July 22, 2015, 09:26:37 PM
Quote from: Bigguy on July 22, 2015, 05:51:39 PM
Beta 2 was released on my birthday..
ohh, nice. Happy birthday, dude!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: shawnb61 on July 22, 2015, 10:42:57 PM
Congrats!   Good job, team!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Bigguy on July 22, 2015, 10:54:30 PM
Quote from: live627 on July 22, 2015, 09:26:37 PM
Quote from: Bigguy on July 22, 2015, 05:51:39 PM
Beta 2 was released on my birthday..
ohh, nice. Happy birthday, dude!

Excellent present for sure. :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: mehrtadbir on July 23, 2015, 04:04:24 PM
You're perfect.
I'm waiting for the next release.

Quote from: Bigguy on July 22, 2015, 05:51:39 PM
Beta 2 was released on my birthday....cool. Nice work everyone. :)

(Just noticed that, lol)

happy birthday Bigguy
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: Bigguy on July 23, 2015, 05:19:51 PM
Thank you. :)
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: a10 on July 25, 2015, 06:47:37 AM
Thanks for the hard work. Easy and troublefree upgrade from 2.0.1 (test-) forum. Things seems to work very well.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: FragaCampos on July 25, 2015, 08:07:32 PM
Thanks to all of those involved in this step forward for our beloved SMF!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: stmaxx on August 04, 2015, 08:05:41 AM
Not suggesting, Just saying that, I'm using the Beta 2 on a live site, from the day after it's release, and no issues with the SMF 2.1 Beta 2 as of now! ( same goes for my test sites!

Note this is still not recommended! I just like test stuff! :)

regards,
Maxx
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: cpf on August 04, 2015, 04:54:42 PM
I'm thinking I might roll this out to my site.  We get a lot of traffic, but sounds like it might be ready!
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: CountryLady on August 04, 2015, 05:00:45 PM
       :o  ~sigh~  ::)

     Here we go again.....   
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: stmaxx on August 04, 2015, 05:11:41 PM
Quote from: cpf on August 04, 2015, 04:54:42 PM
I'm thinking I might roll this out to my site.  We get a lot of traffic, but sounds like it might be ready!

I would not ... The mods are not comparable yet, and you may not get your stuff back once you go forward, unless you really know what your doing!

Just saying what I did. period!~

regards,
maxx
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: margarett on August 04, 2015, 05:14:17 PM
Quote from: cpf on August 04, 2015, 04:54:42 PM
but sounds like it might be ready!
Trust us, it isn't. Although there are no (known) issues with security, there are features which are bit broken.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: 青山 素子 on August 05, 2015, 07:30:20 PM
Quote from: cpf on August 04, 2015, 04:54:42 PM
I'm thinking I might roll this out to my site.  We get a lot of traffic, but sounds like it might be ready!

While it might be workable, it's still a bad idea unless you're very experienced in coding. While we can't stop you from doing as you wish, remember that the beta is experimental. It may have data loss bugs, security bugs, cause high server loads, or any of many other things. As it's a beta, it will certainly have broken or rough features and there is no active support for people using it on live sites.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: TomW on August 07, 2015, 10:08:39 AM
Quote from: margarett on August 04, 2015, 05:14:17 PM
Quote from: cpf on August 04, 2015, 04:54:42 PM
but sounds like it might be ready!
Trust us, it isn't. Although there are no (known) issues with security, there are features which are bit broken.

Are all of the issues documented in GIT ?  Or is there another list of defects not available to the public ?  Just curious.

I agree that one should not use a Beta product unless it's for a test site; that is what the Beta designation represents.
Title: Re: SMF 2.1 Beta 2 Released
Post by: margarett on August 07, 2015, 10:34:11 AM
Everything that is known is in GH or in the "Bug reports" board ;)