Quite a few bug fixes, plus a couple of new scripts in this build. A Flame Leviathan script works similar to the Argent Tournament script but for the FL vehicles so you can automate wearing your max item level gear. The download is in the forums, as usual, and you can find the release notes at the “read the rest” link below.
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This is the first public release of 4.8, which adds support for the Equipment Manager. You’ll find a new icon next to each outfit (the WoW icon) which can be used move outfits between the server and your local machine. Because Blizzard won’t allow an outfit to be stored in the EM unless you’re wearing it, the first click will equip the outfit if you’re not already wearing that outfit. In that case you’ll have to click the icon a second time once the outfit is equipped. Note that Blizzard only allows 31 chars to an outfit name, so if your name is longer than that Outfitter will truncate it when you move it to the server.
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I haven’t gotten much done lately due to problems with my right arm, but I did get a bugfix build of 5.0 done to address some of the more annoying bugs introduced by 5.0b4. The download is available in the GC5 forums (registration required) or on Curse or WoW Interface.

Click the “Read the rest” link for the change log.
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A couple of the bugs reported against yesterday’s 5.0b1 build are significant enough that I think another build is needed to ensure that GC5 runs a smoothly as it can. I also fixed a couple of easy minor bugs and usability issues.
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I’m finally ready to call it “beta”! All the major features for the first release are now implemented. This build adds new event notifications and fixes a few problems with the guild partnership feature. The most significant thing missing is automatic confirmations and personal events. Personal events (birthdays, doctor, etc.) just need some work to fix them up and I’m considering dropping the automatic confirmations feature from the first release and adding it for a “5.1″ release instead. The big sticking point with it is that I have to scan the calendar in the background, which means monitoring other addons accesses to the calendar API so I can suspend scanning while it’s in use. I’m also concerned about performance with that background scanning and want more time to think about that aspect as well.
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This is probably the last pre-beta build, unless it turns out I messed something up in a big way with these changes. The multi-guild partnership stuff is finally done as well as a couple other features and bugfixes.
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I found some instructions online on configuring phpBB3 to use gmail and have changed the forum configuration to route mail through that. If you have trouble, use the Contact link at the top of this page to let me know and I’ll resolve it as quickly as I can.

So it turns out that you can not effectively host a mail server on a dynamic IP address. Technically it works fine, but it turns out that a large number of the mail servers in the world block all emails coming from dynamic IP ranges, which is resulting in nobody getting any email from me — personal emails, registration emails, etc.

I’ve ordered an upgrade to “business internet” from Comcast, but that’s going to take a few days to get installed. In the meantime I am manually confirming all forum registrations, so if you register just allow an hour or two for me to notice and activate your account. Sorry about that! I hope to have everything back to normal once I get my fancy faster line with a static IP (22Mbps down/5Mbps up!).

Not much new in this release other than updating the Argent Tournament script to recognize the slightly-renamed mounts in patch 3.1.2. Of course, if you use that script then this is a must have for the new patch :)
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I’ve moved my entire site to my own server! I was only paying about $100 a year for the hosting but I wasn’t happy with how slow my site loaded. I know, you get what you pay for, but this site is pretty low traffic and 30 to 60 seconds to load a page sometimes during off-peak hours was lame. Hopefully it’ll perform consistently well now!