Andras Bacsai@heyandras
I received a lot of concerns about v5 about: "why it takes so long" or "why you hype it as there is nothing usable yet.
Partly they are right as I planned to make the first beta in a few months, and it is more than a year now.
I planned v5 to be an experimental (tech, business, and money-wise) as we are making something special in a way that it will be insanely good for hosting stuffs - a real cloud feeling but with your own servers.
That is why I asked @peaklabs_dev to help me. He worked on it full-time, made lots of plans, but unfortunately he burned out in the process - currently recovering, which is why he is silent for a few weeks.
I could say that I lost thousands of dollars in this experiment, because we still do not have beta, but I see it in another way.
Someone and their family lived happily from this experiment, of course, I did not want Peak to burn out in the process. 😔
So in the last weeks, I sat down and planned how we should do v5 from scratch , and in a week, I achieved almost an alpha/beta-ready version.
In technical details, we planned v5 to be a new app - you install it on a server, it can connect to v4, and you can migrate your apps one-by-one. But I did not like this plan, as I do not want that much manual work on the users, even though it will be fully automated.
So instead, it will come to your v4 instance in a /v5 URL, and then I can extend v4 with all the stuffs needed to migrate your app - v5 will have direct DB access to v4 stuffs, and the migration will have even less friction.
I am hyped for v5. It will be cool, and it will be very useful.
Oh, and also, I made Jean, Shoutrrr (well, @AdityaTripathiD did it, but I added a few commits), and 10k+ commits to Coolify v4 - doing everyday business stuff, hiring another person, etc.
So I did lots of things in the meantime.
So I am sorry that it takes so long. I try to make it available faster, because you (Coolify users) deserve it.
You changed my (and other's) life.💜