We are under way of releasing our Winter Release (version 18) to Infusionsoft users. This will be a steady, paced roll out to ensure optimal user experiences. This post will be updated with details and status of the deployment.
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1/28/2010 10:33AM — Last night around 11PM, we deployed an update to a very small sampling of users. So far, so good. We’re doing more testing until we expand this release to more users. These users were notified of their application update at 1AM this morning.
2/02/2010 6:26PM — Everyone who already has the Winter Release will be receiving an update for refinements. This refinement will noticed by the “18.1″ version number in the lower left corner. No new features from the Winter Release have changed, other than a number of back-end optimizations.
2/04/2010 12:19AM — 112 more applications received their Winter Release update. From yesterday, we did not observe any system performance or issues from users. (Don’t worry, we’ll be releasing it in wider, larger batches on future deployments from this.)
2/08/2010 5:29PM — 1189 more applications received their Winter Release update during this weekend. Our fourth of five phased updates will occur this evening. We have not identified any critical system issues or performance as a result and the release is working great for our customers!
2/09/2010 9:44PM — About 1300 more applications received their update yesterday evening. We haven’t had any critical issues stemming from this release and are confident to continue the deployment to the rest of the users this week. The one application performance issue that people have noticed (and is noted on this blog) is unrelated to the Winter Release and rather the underlying architecture that we have identified and are resolving shortly.
2/11/2010 8:10PM — At this time we are holding off on the final deployment due to a few system issues that would negatively impact customer experience. Once we’re confident things are running smoothly, we’ll deploy to the rest of users. Thanks for your patience!
2/16/2010 8:35PM — After much tweaking, monitoring and testing to the code base, we have identified and resolved the previous impairments that prevented us from scaling our Winter Release to customers. Good news is that we’re finally caught up and will be releasing to another group of our customers. This evening, we will be rolling out to 187 applications. Stay tuned for an update following the release. 
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I hear ya, Marc. We're pretty excited about it but need to be considerate of the need for a smooth, reliable release for customer satisfaction.
Thanks,
Joe
Can't wait to be updated so I can get to grips with the changes and coach my InfusionSoft clients.
i'm still on 1.17.22.6 – how do we know when we will be upgraded? and does that include the new email builder (experimental)??
Russ,
For this release, we have dispatched a login notification to applications who have been upgraded. This way they know for sure they have been updated to the Winter Release. We're confident we will push the update to the last (fifth) segment of all our users, which is about 2000 users this week.
Yes, it does include the email builder.
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
My application has been updated but I can't find the new email builder. Where I do find it?