Hi Tadjio,

Before any availability on Piwigo.com, Piwigo 2.4 must be released as "stable", I mean 2.4.0. We still have to deal with [Forum, post 129832 by plg in topic 18684] [multisize] hotlinks and upgrade. Once Piwigo 2.4.0 is released, it will take several weeks before it's available on Piwigo.com and all galleries are not upgraded at the same time.

59 plugins and 33 themes are available on Piwigo.com. Nearly all themes/plugins need to be upgraded to be compatible with Piwigo 2.4. We will add compatible plugins/themes one by one on Piwigo.com v2.4. On Piwigo.com we'll maintain a version 2.3 and a version 2.4 as long as some galleries can't be upgraded to 2.4 due to a missing plugin/theme.

Let's look at the past :

* first upgrades to version 2.1 occured 4 months after 2.1 was released (it was our first large based upgrade)
* first upgrades to version 2.2 occured 1.5 month after 2.2 was released
* first upgrades to version 2.3 occured 1 month after 2.3 was released

Depending on the plugins/themes you use, your gallery may be upgraded after 4 weeks or 10 weeks.

Tadjio wrote:

I'd be happy to be a guinea pig for you on Piwigo.com :-)

OK, you'll be.

Tadjio wrote:

I think with my more recent images which I want hi-res copies of, I will have to use pLoader with resizing plus the HD as original.  This will then work for 2.3 and for 2.4.  Does that make sense?

That makes perfectly sense. During upgrade to Piwigo 2.4, only the original will be kept.