Ok, short news on ongoing CB 1.2 beta 8 tests:
Now, after 24 hours that beta 8 is out, we have already around half of CB testteam testing beta 8, and we are catching up with fixes (the rate of new bugs is lower than our fixes rate).
There are a few bugs which require investigation and fixes, but we are at count of 8 bugs left right now, of which 5 at least are still not acceptable and need fix before going RC, as we want the upgrade to be as smooth and easy as possible.
We also have subscriptions-plugin testteam poking at the plugin and CB, and also quite some CB bugs being found and fixed from there.
1 very annoying "long moment" today was that I spent today over 4 hours on a very wierd PHP 4.4.2 bug
that a tester had, CB hanging completely on rendering some of the backend. This turned out to be due to a picky PHP core bug of that 4.4.2 release only, for which we had to find a work-around.
The wide range of supported platforms and number of users makes testing and sometimes fixing, like in this case (I had to remotely debug without debugging tools with basically print commands on the tester's live server as we didn't know what was causing this and couldn't even reproduce it on our local php4 environment, which was more up to date...) very hard to predict. Sometimes we can fix 4 bugs in an hour, and sometimes it goes otherwise...like in that case.
Work will go on full+free-time until 1.2 RC, not very far away, but still at
least 2 days i would dare to guess
.
Again many thanks for the great support of the CB testteam and of the doc subscribers on this site, it really helps getting CB 1.2 RC out way better and faster !