Our team is working hectically on fixing bugs found in the last round of validation. Most of the recently identified issues are to do with UTF-8 support in the vtiger plug-ins. We only uncovered them in the latest round of validation. We are improving the test process to catch these early and putting the product through rigorous testing focused on Security, data integrity, and functionality.
At this juncture we feel it is important to spend the extra few days, to address the critical and major issues before releasing the product. Its going to take us another 5-6 days to complete this process, which puts us right in the middle of the “holiday week” between Christmas and New Year. Instead of releasing it that week, we have decided to release 5.0.4 in Jan 1st week. We will be using the extra few days to update the documentation, and get the product ready for release.
We apologize for the delay, and would like to assure you that the team is working hard on completing some important bug-fixes and putting the finishing touches.
