Movable Type 4.2 has been released and is available for download. It now includes the Community Pack as a built-in feature of MT, without any additional charges!
We’ve tested version 4.2 internally and found it so much faster out of the box than the previous 4.12 version. Just by uploading the new files you will see great speed performance.
Search was completely rewritten, with common queries being 100 times as fast. Core publishing is 2 to 3 times as fast out of the box, and if you enable template module caching or automatic use of includes, we’ve heard results of 10x as fast or more.
One of our corporate customers running version 4.12 had to wait roughly 4 hours for their blog to rebuild. As soon as they upgraded to the 4.2, the upgrade took only 9 minutes. That is unbelievable speed.
We’ve also seen some issues when upgrading from 4.12 to 4.2 where a blog will not rebuild unless some changes are made to the blog’s custom designed templates, and/or plugins.
As always, I recommend creating a backup copy of your current Movable Type blog before upgrading. Businesses and Corporate users are recommended to create a development environment with a mirror copy of their current blog, and test the upgrade there, before upgrading their live blogs and then facing problems.
Feel free to check our blog services page for help with Movable Type 4.2 Upgrade.
Tags: movable type, upgrade
