Khoros Communities 25.08 - Release Notes

Glad to see there is a release! It has been a while :)

A few questions:

• Is this for Classic AND Aurora?
• will this be rolled to staging sites first, then prod, like the old process? If not, what’s the new process?

Thank you!

Oooh, I just received an (automated) email saying “community-staging.[mycompany].com has been changed from 25.4 to 25.8.”

I would have appreciated a heads up about dates before this upgrade.

What is the new process?

I also missed any updates about the version updates and when they would be occurring. We also need to be aware of this in advance and would like info on the new process. 

I'm subscribed to this section and didn't even get notified of it - I saw it because of the comments happening on it. So, that's a little odd.

I'd also love to know if this is for Classic or Aurora? I haven't been notified of any updates (yet) to our Staging environment, but what is the schedule looking like? Where is the transparency?

Ben, I think we all appreciate that you're trying to take the lead here and share this info with us. However, there are countless, well-established examples of release announcements and rollout plans in Atlas for this team to follow. We shouldn't be caught by surprise here, nor should there be a question of "Classic or Aurora."

Often times, our CSM/TAM would know what's coming (and when) and would be able to share that with us. We also used to get system emails with our environment's release schedule. This time, everyone has told me that they're not allowed to disclose anything.

I think we're all deeply concerned here. But me, I'm impressed... by how well this leadership team has capitalized on every opportunity to fuel my own doubts. Everything that has happened since IgniteTech took over has been fumbled. Well done!

Drew_C​ You have a CSM?!

I was hesitant to use that term so definitively. I'm introduced to different people every few weeks.

In v25.8, we have fixed one vulnerability for Community Classic (Youtube video embeds), while the rest addresses Aurora. The pre-prod & stage instances have been/are going to be rolled out between yesterday and today, and the production instances will be upgraded one week after on Aug. 26th.

Moving forward, the release notes are going to be published here when our engineering team has finished assembling a new version, and the rollout dates are going to also then be communicated - they will be set to 1 to 2 weeks after the engineering release for the pre-prod/stage instances, and one more week after that for the production instances.

Thanks for your patience while we get things settled out with the new IgniteTech team & new processes.

Thank you for the info, LucyL​! I imagine if the whole Khoros team (more or less) hadn't been laid off, the processes wouldn't have to be so "new"... But nonetheless I appreciate you posting this info.

You'd have a CSM too if you weren't messing around on Shadow Moses all the time