Upcoming 11 beta3

Hello everyone,

11 beta3 is around the corner. It will feature several bug fixes and some heavy work done on the upgrader and importer for other Composr CMS 11 sites.

Namely:

• The upgrader will perform the database upgrade in steps now. This is because v10 -> v11 has some heavy database tasks to perform which could otherwise cause gateway / server timeouts. It is still highly recommended ensuring your server has a high timeout limit set before running the upgrader.
• Some bugs were fixed with the upgrader per testing the upgrade process of the compo.sr site v10 to v11.
• The CMS merger (importer) for importing another Composr CMS v11 site will have some heavy work done to it. This is mainly to ensure a proper upgrade and migration from compo.sr to composr.app once v11 reaches release candidate stage.
• Some beta2 bugs and other bugs will be fixed.

Recently a lot of bugs were reported for v11. Some of these might not make it into the beta3 release but will instead go into beta4.

At this point, I know for sure there will be a v11 beta3 and a v11 beta4. After beta4, whether we have more betas or we go into RC stage will depend on the stability of the software at that point.

Thank you everyone for your continued feedback and testing!

Also coming up in beta3 is better compliance with legislation such as CAN-SPAM:
 

• A new "unsubscribe" endpoint added at data/unsubscribe.php which allows any recipients of your Composr site's automated e-mails to easily unsubscribe from all of them. Also supports one-click unsubscribe from a mail client.
  • A new stats under Conversions was added so you can track the number of people who unsubscribed over time.
• Fixes to the List-Unsubscribe mail header, also the default has been changed to pointing to Composr's new endpoint.
• Added an "Unsubscribe" link to the bottom of all mail per the default mail templates. This also points to Composr's new unsubscribe endpoint.
• A warning on the newsletter pages and in member settings edit warning a member if they are not receiving mail, either because they unsubscribed or because your site received bounce-backs.

Beta3 is taking longer than expected because I broke my glasses. It's very hard to read code, so for the time being until my new pair has arrived via rush delivery, I'm doing work on the v11 tutorials.