NodeBB v3.0.0-rc.1 — The release candidate

[julian]

Today we're announcing that we've released the first release candidate of NodeBB v3.0.0.

What this means

• A release candidate means that we feel confident enough that we could launch v3 today. We won't though.
• A release candidate means that we will probably not work on any new features, and will focus more on any bugs that are discovered in the interim.
• The working branch for v3 was called bootstrap5. That branch has now been merged into develop, which is reserved for the next minor or major release version. In this case, the next version is v3, a major release version.
• Now that develop contains v3 code, all of the new language strings have been pushed to Transifex for active localisation.
• It means we're on the final stretch! @baris and I have been working hard on getting this ready, and we're anxious to see it running on production instances. We feel that v3 and the Harmony theme are a big step in the right direction, and look forward to crossing that finish line soon.

How do we switch from bootstrap5 to develop?

If you were on the bootstrap5 branch, that branch no longer exists. You will want to switch to the develop branch going forward:

git fetch && git checkout develop && git reset --hard origin/develop

Migration Guide

Just a reminder that if you have a custom theme, there are quite a few breaking changes that could bite you. We put together a migration guide just for those admins.

[phenomlab]

@julian Seeing as the previous branch was bootstrap5 it might be a good idea to explain how to switch between that and the new develop branch, and install v3.0.0-rc.1

[julian]

@phenomlab Indeed! I will update the post

[DownPW]

Passed to beta2 to RC1 without problem on my dev environment with :

./nodebb stop
git fetch && git checkout develop && git reset --hard origin/develop
./nodebb upgrade
./nodebb start

Thank you for the tips @julian

[cagatay]

@DownPW you are faster then me

[FrankM]

@DownPW said in NodeBB v3.0.0-rc.1 — The release candidate:

./nodebb stop
git fetch && git checkout develop && git reset --hard origin/develop
./nodebb upgrade
./nodebb start

Thanks. My test forum is now on v3.0.0-rc.1.

@julian @baris Thanks for v3