This release sees improvements in many aspects across Affino that will benefit everyone, enhancing the speed and usability across many Affino services. 

Affino’s AI services are now significantly faster, better and nicer looking, and for the first time Affino’s Expert AI Service is aware of the full conversation you are having.

We have made some important updates to the message click stats, mailing list subscriber import, and subscriptions, amongst others. In general working with messages in Affino is now faster and more insightful than at any point.

We have also made some inroads into the commerce developments with updates to the Payment Gateways and Checkout with much more tabled for the next major release. We have added a number of important subscription safeguards into this release, including critical integration updates with Stripe. 

Altogether there are hundreds of improvements in this Affino Update, which taken together add up to a nicely improved overall experience. With the breakthrough in Affino’s AI performance we can’t wait to see all the great new AI Service Prototypes over the coming weeks and months.

There are also important underlying performance, analytics and security updates, making this an essential priority Affino Update which everyone needs to adopt at the earliest opportunity.

For more details see here:

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Upgrade Guidance
 

This is an essential update for Affino, and we strongly recommend updating as a priority.

NOTE - you will need a new Affino Licence Key, with the new Site Management security right. This should be in turn assigned to your key webmaster and admin security groups as many Affino Control Settings screens now use this new security clearance. The Affino team will automatically apply this new Licence Key if they are running the update. If you prefer to run the update yourself, please ensure you first request a licence key to be installed on your instance. 

NOTE - if you have not yet updated to the 2024 version of the Stripe API then you must do so now or you are highly likely to have issues with your subscriptions renewals and promotions. Ensure you test on your staging instance if possible, but be aware that Stripe have made a number of critical changes which require this Affino release for the best compatibility.

NOTE - there are a number of key Affino infrastructure updates that accompany this Update if you have not updated to the previous release, so this will need tight coordination with the Affino Team to ensure a smooth update process.

It is important to liaise with the support team to schedule an update window where they can be on hand to support the update. 

It is essential that you run through the complete update process starting with the Affino Updater, followed by the sequence of the system and design updates laid out on the Control > Update screen.