Invoice Ninja 5 (beta)
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It seems Invoice Ninja went through a total rewrite in flutter. I learnt about it from this post - https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/ijzkx1/whats_new_in_invoice_ninja_v5_weve_rebuilt_the/ . In case, anyone wants to give it a try.
It seems there is no automatic v4 to v5 migration per https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/ijzkx1/whats_new_in_invoice_ninja_v5_weve_rebuilt_the/g3h66qf/ .
What that means for Cloudron is that when v5 is ready, we will package it as a new app. You have to install v5 side by side with v4 and then do the migration manually.
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@girish A bit off topic but I'm curious... not sure if this scenario has happened before where two versions need to be running concurrently since there's no actual upgrade in-place scenario from the app developer, but what do you do in this case when it comes to managing the packages? Do you always keep v4 available in this case and maintain it until Invoice Ninja kills it off, or do you make a sort of cut-over date where people can only install v5 at that point and can't install v4?
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@d19dotca This has happened with Ghost before. They did not provide a way to migrate to the 1.0. We simply made a new package and provided instructions on how to migrate. Atleast, for Ghost, the migration was fairly painless. Just had to export and import a json file. The old package will most likely just be hidden once v5 is out. After all, I don't think anyone wants to do a new install of v4 (if there is a reason for this, then we have to maintain to packages separately).
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Invoice Ninja put up a video on the changes from 4 to 5 here too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_IMJLmVmuY
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Looks like the new version is out!
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Stable v5 branch: https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja/tree/v5-stable
Current version is v5.0.25
Redesign and new features look nice. There is a migration tool built into the current v4.5.X version. Once the v5 is packed for Cloudron you can ship your data over to the new instance.Note: v5 is now in beta. To upgrade from v4 you need to install v5 as a separate app and then use the migration tool in the latest version of v4 on Settings > Account Management.
