System spin-up continues, or to be more accurate I've put most of it aside for other projects for the time being. I'll have more installing and configuring to do, but for now work and play both intruded.

This week I finally got out a new beta release as promised, so 515.1620 is officially the first build on the new system. In the process I actually discovered I'd missed a step installing one of the tools I needed, but it was quickly sorted. There's actually a small stack of bug reports I need to get to, and I need to make those more of a priority next week.

It'd be nice if 515 could move to the stable channel before Thanksgiving, but I'm a realist. I don't expect that to happen next week, and if I tried to do it the week of Thanksgiving that'd be when all sorts of issues would come up. I'm not quite that stupid, so my soft target is gonna be the week after.

In the meantime the big project of 516 is progressing, and it's doing exceptionally well. As of right now, WebView2 is doing everything it needs to and I also have it working in the pager, after some minor fixes. There is however a new concern, which is that I want to divest the code of all the terrible cruft it picked up with IE hacks, and all the badly outdated jQuery. Removing the jQuery is going to be a long process and it's gonna have to happen in stages, but I think to speed that up I should set up some kind of test bed. There are new possibilities in WebView2 regarding browser-to-host messaging that should allow me to make pager changes more easily, so I'm gonna try to formulate a plan for that.

So for now, that's keeping the news short and sweet. Thank you all whose BYOND Memberships and donations on various platforms have made all this work possible, and continue to do so.

And now, we brace for Christmas music! The commercials have already begun and it's only a matter of time before the decorations take over. But first, there's more work to do: including re-Sharpieing my Christmas lights.