Inform build 5Z71 is now out, hosted on a new website, which features, among other things, a new section on education with Inform and reports from teachers in the field; a new introductory screencast by Aaron Reed showing off some of the features of the IDE and how to get your game started; and a revised handling of the extensions allowing authors to view extension documentation online before downloading.
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Emily Short's Interactive Storytelling 
Simply awesome.
This may be a stupid question, but do you know any way to set up two working versions of I7 on the same Mac? My current wip won’t work in the new version until Mr. Ingold figures out a work-around for Flexible Windows, but I really want to tool around with the new one.
I usually work around that kind of problem by putting the second version of I7 in a different directory, and then if necessary keeping a renamed legacy version of the extension in question.
Fortunately, though, Jon seems to have at least a beta update for Flexible Windows — check RAIF.
Another wonderful new release. Many thanks to all involved
I have not been through the whole of the new website yet. Is the I7 syntax document still available and will it be updated for the new release?
It’s with other reference materials here:
http://inform7.com/learn/learn/
(And it is updated for the new release, as of now.)
Some of the pages in the worked examples are wrong, for example the walk through and overview of Glass. Actually all of them except the storyfiles and source texts are wrong.
Grm, okay. We had a little trouble with this pre-launch but I thought it was fixed; evidently not. I’ve emailed Graham.
(and it now seems to be fixed for real)
The ability to see extension documentation without installing the extension is a total win.
You might reconsider the grey-on-white text, both at inform7.org and here. I don’t think I’m that old, but I find it strains my poor eyes.
Re. inform7.com — if that seems to be a common problem, we can look into it.
Re. here — all of the ways to adjust the theme CSS involve spending money, so I’ve avoided that so far, but if this is causing accessibility problems for people, I can look into it.
Agreed that the ability to browse the extension source code and documentation is great. Given this functionality, could the built-in extensions be put on the website so that we can look at them along with the other extensions?
I recommend emailing Christopher Armstrong about this, as he is the extensions librarian now, and in a position to handle such things.
New site looks absolutely wonderful, and I’m very impressed with the extra stuff that’s been opened up. Just a suggestion, though, maybe you might want to have inform-fiction.org redirect there?
We will redirect the old site in a few days; this takes a little disentangling because the old server still does contain a bunch of Inform 6 material, so that all needs to be disentangled gently.
Hi, I would like to highlight that the italian documentation of the expansion ‘Italian’ has several problems of accent codification. I can’t visualize them, maybe because of a glitch from Windows character decodification to X-System’s one.
My best congratulations for IF7’s wonderful new website, very rich in terms of informations and tips :)
On this, I suggest emailing Christopher Armstrong — he’s the librarian for this material and also runs the scripts that produce the pages. His contact information can be found on the website.
Just looked through the changes — that’s awesome that the error messages link to relevant documentation, I was totally going to suggest that!
Indeed. As one who just began learning I7, and has had to look all over the documentation after every problem… that will be a huge time saver.
The new version is awesome, and the new site looks very clean and uncluttered. But I’ll miss the photo of the open book :(.