Since Preview 1 of Lyons, we’ve been hard at work for the Preview 2 release – we’ve closed out 92 bugs and stabilized the update scripts for this release. Preview 2 is ready for you to download and test the upgrade of your existing systems to Lyons!

Again, I must warn you that Previews should not be used on production systems. Previews should be used to test the upgrade scripts on your development servers to ensure the final release will not cause conflicts with your set-up (let us address those issues now!). With this Preview, you can also begin testing out the latest developer tools available inside Deki (DekiScript improvements, notifications, php hooks, and page & user properties) to see how it will assist you in building rich applications on top of Deki.

Please help us out by grabbing Lyons Preview 2, checking out our bug fixes, and dropping by our forums to let us know of any issues you encounter with Preview 2!

For those of you who want to be made aware, we will post Preview 3 roughly around the end of February. This will continue in Preview 2′s footsteps by providing more code stabilization and UI polish.