Hello, Realm Works users! Liz here. The Realm Works team is hunkered down focused on the upcoming Content Market, so I’ve jumped in to give an update.
This is the update we’ll be including in the newsletter, which we’ll be sending out later today.
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Last month, we shared that the team was preparing a major update for Realm Works. Earlier this week, after starting the release process, we experienced a Mr. Bill moment. We uncovered a bug in the upgrade process that we accidentally introduced earlier this year. This bug undermines our ability to cleanly release a new version needing a closely coordinated upgrade between the client and server – something this major update requires. If we had completed the release with this bug in place, it would have caused confusion and frustration for almost everyone.
A critical priority for us is to ensure a good product experience for users, so we chose to postpone the major update this week. Instead, we’ve put out a small release today that fixes the upgrade issue and addresses a few other small things that were not tied to the big enhancements. By taking this approach and delaying the major release by a week or two, we can ensure the upgrade process goes smoothly for users when the major release does roll out. We’re also investigating options that will help mitigate the upgrade issue for anyone who misses the interim release.
While there are no significant enhancements in today’s release, it's very important that users install this update. We want the forthcoming major update to go smoothly for everyone, and the way to achieve that is by first grabbing today’s release. To make it easy to get this new version, here’s a link that’s hard to miss:
We realize that users are eager to get the new enhancements included in the major update. We’re just as eager to get them into your hands. However, we’d rather delay the big release than deliver a frustrating experience, and we hope you agree with our philosophy. Thanks for understanding!
In the meantime, here’s a quick teaser of things to look forward to in the upcoming release: native HTML, custom and default styles, major name handling improvements, and a vastly expanded and tailorable automatic linking mechanism. There’s a lot more in the release, but those should whet your appetite for the next week or two…
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Edit on 10/03/15 - We released a new build this morning to fix an issue that was affecting users in scaling mode. The link above can get you the new update, or you can download it from within Realm Works by checking for new updates.
This is the update we’ll be including in the newsletter, which we’ll be sending out later today.
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Last month, we shared that the team was preparing a major update for Realm Works. Earlier this week, after starting the release process, we experienced a Mr. Bill moment. We uncovered a bug in the upgrade process that we accidentally introduced earlier this year. This bug undermines our ability to cleanly release a new version needing a closely coordinated upgrade between the client and server – something this major update requires. If we had completed the release with this bug in place, it would have caused confusion and frustration for almost everyone.
A critical priority for us is to ensure a good product experience for users, so we chose to postpone the major update this week. Instead, we’ve put out a small release today that fixes the upgrade issue and addresses a few other small things that were not tied to the big enhancements. By taking this approach and delaying the major release by a week or two, we can ensure the upgrade process goes smoothly for users when the major release does roll out. We’re also investigating options that will help mitigate the upgrade issue for anyone who misses the interim release.
While there are no significant enhancements in today’s release, it's very important that users install this update. We want the forthcoming major update to go smoothly for everyone, and the way to achieve that is by first grabbing today’s release. To make it easy to get this new version, here’s a link that’s hard to miss:
We realize that users are eager to get the new enhancements included in the major update. We’re just as eager to get them into your hands. However, we’d rather delay the big release than deliver a frustrating experience, and we hope you agree with our philosophy. Thanks for understanding!
In the meantime, here’s a quick teaser of things to look forward to in the upcoming release: native HTML, custom and default styles, major name handling improvements, and a vastly expanded and tailorable automatic linking mechanism. There’s a lot more in the release, but those should whet your appetite for the next week or two…
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Edit on 10/03/15 - We released a new build this morning to fix an issue that was affecting users in scaling mode. The link above can get you the new update, or you can download it from within Realm Works by checking for new updates.
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