Gladys 4 Beta is available! 🚀

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@spenceur : Gladys 4 is already quite launched :smiley: The « named releases Â» like alpha, beta, are just announcements to motivate the community, but behind the scenes, we work every day and we already have a product running on 200 instances!

I don’t know if you’ve tested v4, but in v4, the update process is transparent and automatic, even for me as a developer. Basically, as soon as a commit goes to Github on master, the Docker image is automatically built, pushed to Docker Hub, and automatically, the Gladys 4 instances update.

It’s so transparent that it allows us to continuously improve Gladys 4, and that’s why, since the beta launch, there have already been 33 updates with new features (in just 2 weeks!). Each update is deployed directly to the instances.

I think there have been more updates in 2 weeks than in several years on Gladys 3, which says a lot about the interest of having simple and automated processes, and above all, technologies that allow it! :slight_smile: I don’t regret for a second having spent these almost 11 months of solo work full-time on Gladys 4 to be able to achieve such speed now.

In short, all the minor shortcomings in terms of current features (multi-user, scenarios), all the small bugs we discover are fixed as we go. There are no more « big releases Â», it’s continuous improvement.

We use GitHub Issues + PR to track the progress of the different developments if you’re interested :slight_smile: That’s where the ongoing projects are visible.

After all, at some point, we will remove the « beta Â» name from Gladys 4, but it will be more of a marketing announcement than anything else: if you use Gladys 4, then you are systematically using the latest version, and you benefit from my continuous work!

I think Gmail removed the word « beta Â» from its name after 5 years :smiley: it won’t necessarily be the case for Gladys 4, but for now, we continue this development cruising speed, and as long as I have great feedback from the community like I’ve had, and there’s still work to be done in terms of « essential Â» features, then we’ll keep the beta term ^^ No date yet!

You should know that the speed of progress of Gladys 4 depends on 2 things:

  • The time I personally spend on Gladys 4
  • The contributions of the community

The first criterion mainly depends on the revenue generated by Gladys Plus, nothing is magical in this world and if I can’t cover my expenses (whether the expenses related to Gladys, or just my living costs), then I do freelance on the side, and therefore I spend less time on Gladys :stuck_out_tongue: