Beta scope and limitations

Release scope

These docs apply to MetaSprout beta, a controlled pilot for Cadmium Education Harvester. Begin on staging. Cadmium Expo Harvester is deferred.

Supported import bounds are 100 presentations per feed, 2,000 presenter/sponsor records per snapshot and 10,000 deletion-response records. Use native mysqli/InnoDB and plan at least 256 MB PHP memory. Dense local testing approached 214 MB; real-host resource use varies.

Verification completed

Server-side compatibility suites passed WordPress 6.6 and 7.1.3 with PHP 8.2.29 and 8.4.18. Hosted xCloud acceptance used WordPress 7.1.3 and PHP 8.4.24.

Hosted checks included a full unattended Cadmium Education Harvester import, failed-feed preservation, interrupted-worker recovery, ZIP upgrades, public displays and automatic FastCGI clearing. The representative live import contained 58 presentations and 153 presenters, not a maximum-size live conference.

The beta customer-portal ZIP and licensed WordPress update package matched the tested artifact. Existing license, layouts, permissions and imported data survived the update.

Not yet certified

Withdrawn-presentation and deleted-presenter interpretation await Cadmium definitions. A live nonempty sponsor response still needs acceptance; synthetic sponsor tests are not a substitute.

Other hosting/cache/CDN combinations, multisite, database drop-ins, PHP 8.3, older-editor browser workflows and a complete accessibility/physical-device matrix are not certified. Hosted peak memory and maximum-feed throughput were not measured.

Not in beta

There is no Expo connector, automatic event-archive shortcode, presenter-by-ID shortcode picker, full-event calendar subscription, or supported child-theme template-override contract described by this release.

Features outside this release’s documented scope are not available in beta. Use the installed version beside the MetaSprout heading to choose the right documentation.

Related: Before you start and Updates and backups.