latest release crashes site

Hello Ed,

sorry about that, we already fixed this in FV Player Pro 0.7.12 which was released on Friday.

Thanks,
Martin

Hi Ed,

I’m sorry about your rough experience here. We’re going to do three things to make sure you and other pro users don’t get stranded like this ever again.

1. separate the dev version and the release version more sharply so that normally pro users won’t get a development version. We might even force opt-in every time for updating to a new dev version (Martin, let’s talk about this).
2. fallback button. If you do update to a version that breaks your site, you’ll be able to automatically go back to your previously working version with a single click (Martin, we’ll have to record installed working versions on a site to be able to do this).
3. automated testing. This is early for us but we’ll be building some test suites which will test as much functionality as we can program so that when we do release even a dev version, the

We didn’t need to do as much of this (fallback versions, automated testing) before as the plugin had fewer features (hence fewer internal conflicts) and our iteration pace was slower and it was usually a single programmer working on the code.

I.e. this is good news for you (though the symptoms this time were not fun):

1. we’re adding more great features like easer to use timeline actions like start screens and end screens.
2. there’s a bigger programming team working on FV Player Pro allowing us to move faster in adding new features and improving existing ones.
3. all of the above also applies to documentation and demos: there will be more and better documentation and demos.

Once again my apologies for the rough experience in the last week but we have learned from the experience and will take concrete steps to protect you and your site in the future, Ed.

Thanks for being part of Foliovision!

Making the web work for you, Alec