Dolphin 7.0.3 BETA (!) is here!
The long awaited "speed-up" version BETA is finally available. It is very important to understand that this is NOT A FINAL VERSION and it is NOT recommended for live/production sites. You may download and install a test site for yourself or play with our online demo, but please, don't upgrade your live sites. There will be NO beta-to-release update packs.
What's so important about 7.0.3:
1. Speed. A LOT of performance improvements (cache, MySQL, code, etc).
2. Forum. The major update of Forum module, same as at BoonEx Unity.
3. Bug-fixes. About 100 bug reports processed and fixed.
4. Security. We have received another security audit report and made proper fixes.
Specific details on most changes can be found here. Once 7.0.3 is production-ready, we will post more details on version change-set, along with the upgrade pack, and upgrade instructions.
Links:
Online Demo of Dolphin 7.0.3 BETA
Discussion Forum for Dolphin Betas
(that's where you post your bug reports and impressions and that's where premium members can grab info and submit tickets to Trac)
Note:
Dolphin 7.0.3 is the first step of our "Speed-up" project. We intend to continue working on speed/performance and plan to provide even more improvements in 7.0.4 and on. Further iterations are expected to take significantly less time than 7.0.3.
Next stage is "Detox" project, which will give birth to Dolphin 7.1. We are already working on it, adding/changing some features and significant amounts of Dolphin code is being re-factored. Performance-wise 7.1 should bring even greater advantage, especially in "perceived" loading speed.
As for your modifications/extensions and templates Dolphin 7.0.3 is a relatively safe upgrade, while 7.1 may potentially have a lot more compatibility issues. We'll start sharing more details on it as soon as possible.
Now, if you have time and drive for it, please try the 7.0.3 BETA and let us know how it rolls.
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I don't want you to thing we are asking for to much
In the new version can you please make the videos, audios and photos with out scrolling up or reloading the hole site
members have to scroll up so they can see the next video, photo and sound each time and this is driving me nuts and my members
will be nice to click next with out the hole site realoding or scrolling up
can you please add this on the Dolphin 7.0.3
Please >> see more
when you click next to see the next video the hole site reload than you have to scroll up
will be nice to click next with out scrolling up I know is like other sites but on the site if you can see when you click next the page reload but you don't have to scroll up I know the page need to be realod but please the scrolling up al lthe times each time you want to see a videos is not good
It's exhausting to browse Photos or Videos and reload the whole template with every photo/video. If you look on facebook for example, only the photo-frame will be reloaded.
Maybe there is a posibility to segment the page in separate frames, so that only the photo/video-frame will be reloaded with every arrow-click (<= , =>).
Hope u understand what I mean!
Thanks!
http://www.demozzz.com/dolphin703b/search.php
it is a very important function - it's the third page visited by members of my site ( google analytics)
I'm still with D 6.1.6 - with over 11,000 members - I'd love to migrate on D7
But without this feature I think this is unreasonable - there are too many competing system with sophisticated search
Apart from this problem - congratulations for your work
Ayyways. Keep up the good work guys. I really like you´r attitude and you´r professionalism.
Some people don't read the annoucement complett. :(
It also has to be said, but with something this large, it really is about time there was an upgrade patch for each stage, beta see more
The Forums look good and the site loads fast...looking forward for the final 7.0.3
Former demo version were loading slow and I always had a faster speed on my servers then.
Great job guys
One thing I realized with playing a sound. The indicator rushed right to the end. The second time it was doing fine and since then.
As for the speed... in "perceived" loading speed of a properly configured site/server you wouldn't notice that much of a difference. Main gains are on server-load site for large member databases. Thus, for example 500 online members would experience similar performance with 7.0.3 as 100 online members experienced with 7.0.2, with everything see more
finaly
ill download & teste
good work
@ TRACKER
Yes UFO360, I got your point! and I'm with you.
It's exhausting to browse Photos or Videos and reload the whole template with every photo/video. If you look on facebook for example, only the photo-frame will be reloaded.
Maybe there is a posibility to segment the page in separate frames, so that only the photo/video-frame will be reloaded with every arrow-click (<= , =>).
Hope u understand what I mean!
Thanks!
I guarantee that there will be a lot of idiots trying to update their production sites to the beta, then running into all sorts of problems that I will refuse to help them with.
You might want to check your facts regarding Facebook reloading the entire page when loading another photo. It sure looks like like the only content loaded is new photos and their comments. Regardless of how they do it, the entire page doesn't scroll to the top when advancing to the next photo.
UFO is correct. Viewing photo albums in Dolphin is an extremely annoying experience. I discussed this almost 2 years ago, but you folks at Boonex chose not to listen. Most computer screens see more
Why you DON'T want to have it working with AJAX: this would compromise URLs structure, SEO and user-experience. Imagine people sharing direct URLs to the media pages see more
The ticket is now here: http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2179
fixed (rev. 14452), it was page blocks cache issue which was introduced in 7.0.3