IPS News And Updates http://community.invisionpower.com/index.php Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:53:38 +0000 5 IP.Content 1.2.0: Critical Security Patch Released http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/303859-ipcontent-120-critical-security-patch-released/ A critical security patch has been released for IP.Content 1.2.0

IPS has been notified of a security issue with IP.Content 1.2.0 which may introduce the ability for a remote user to inject malicious SQL into a URL. This SQL could damage or compromise the security of your community.

We would like to thank Alex Smith for reporting this issue to us.


Patching your IP.Content Install

If you are running a version of IP.Content less than 1.2.0: upgrade your install today. The IP.Content 1.2.0 download in the client area has already been updated to include the patched files.

If you are running IP.Content 1.2.0: upload the attached file to: admin/applications_addon/ips/ccs/sources/functions.php


Please submit a support ticket if you have any questions.

]]> Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:53:38 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/303859-ipcontent-120-critical-security-patch-released/ IP.Board 2.3.6 and Related Applications: end of life announcement http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302922-ipboard-236-and-related-applications-end-of-life-announcement/
So that we can focus all of our development, support, and service efforts on our new version 3 platform, we are announcing the end of support (sometimes called end of life or EOL) for the following IPS software versions (and earlier versions than those listed):

  • IP.Board 2.3.6
  • IP.Blog 1.4.2
  • IP.Gallery 2.2.4
  • IP.Downloads 1.2.2


Technical support, installations, and related services will end for these products on July 1, 2010. On that date all technical or service requests will be advised to simply upgrade to the most recent versions of the products. We will not force upgrades but will also not be able to diagnose issues or answer questions relating to the older software. Also, on that date, IPS will no longer address any new issues or bugs reported in the older software versions.

Security Updates

In the event an issue is discovered impacting the security of these older versions of the software, IPS will provide a patch posted in our announcements forum. We will continue to provide security updates until January 1, 2011.]]> Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:02:20 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302922-ipboard-236-and-related-applications-end-of-life-announcement/ IP.Blog 2.1.0 Released http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302677-ipblog-210-released/ We are pleased to announce IP.Blog 2.1.0 has been released.

The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Blog:

User Interface
The user interface has had a complete facelift to bring it up to standard. The new look feels more 'bloggish' and enhances the experience. We have added drop down menus at the top so that you can quickly access common areas and start new entries where you have permission to. The post screen has been overhauled to add functionality. You should find the new version much easier to navigate and easier to use.

Group Blogs
This is a new feature that allows you, the admin, to set up a group-wide blog. This blog is a normal blog in every other way. For example, you could set up a blog for your staff and everyone in the staff group will instantly be able to start writing new blog entries and managing comments, etc.

Blog This!
This is a brand new feature that adds a "Blog This" button to every post. This allows you to use post content in your blog entry. Furthermore, the relationship is remembered and all linked blog entries appear at the bottom of the topic when viewed.

Per-Entry Rating
You can now rate each blog entry rather than just the entire blog itself. The blog rating is still shown on the homepage as an aggregate of all rated entries.

Report Item and Reputation
You can now report an entire blog entry, or just a single comment. You can now also give someone a reputation increase/decrease in comments.

List View
A common request was the return of a fully sortable and filterable list view for blogs that emulated a forum view. We have added this in. You'll notice you can click the table headers to sort on that column and click again to reverse the sort. There is also a "List Blogs" sidebar block to quickly filter and list the blogs. There's even a little 'preview the latest entry' icon that shows the entry excerpt in a pop-up so you don't have to leave the page to preview it.

Dynamic Sidebar
We have moved some the footer links (Top 10 bloggers, etc) into a dynamic sidebar along with Recent Entries. This makes it easier to locate and saves a bit of space.

RSS Imports
Another long requested feature was to be able to create entries from an RSS feed. This is now a feature. You can control which member groups have access to this as well as limit the number of items imported on each cycle.

Banish Entries
You can now banish entries from the front page to remove any 'clutter' such as 'testing' blogs or other unsuitable content.

ACP Clean-up
We have gone through and cleaned up some of the Admin CP pages to make them a little easier to understand and navigate. We have added explanations to the 'Headers' / 'Dynamic Headers' pages so it's clear what they do.

Efficiency
We have removed several slow queries and introduced several more caching layers to substantially reduce SQL overhead when dealing with large numbers of blogs.


Downloading

You can download IP.Blog 2.1.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.]]> Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:31:05 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302677-ipblog-210-released/ IP.Gallery 3.1.0 Released http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302580-ipgallery-310-released/ We are pleased to announce IP.Gallery 3.1.0 has been released.

The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Gallery:

Friendly URLs
We've integrated gallery into the global FURL system used by IP.Board 3, this will allow gallery to create friendly URLs for categories, albums, and images.

Category/Album Covers
When viewing an image, you will have a new option to set that image as the 'cover' for the category or album that contains the image. When a cover image is specified for a category or album, that image will always be displayed, in place of the last uploaded image thumbnail.

Sub Albums
Albums now support unlimited sub albums, which work exactly like gallery sub categories.

Profile Picture Album
You can now create a new kind of album, a 'Profile Picture' Album. After this album has been created, any images that you upload to it will be displayed on the change picture page in your User CP, making them easy to select as your profile image.

Image notes
Image owners are now able to add notes to sections of their images, positioning and resizing them to suit. Other members will be able to see the notes when hovering over the image. (An example)

Image rotation
Images can now be rotated in 90° increments, to compensate for those photos taken in landscape or portrait, but saved in the wrong orientation.

New slideshow
We have completely rewritten the slideshow feature! It is now a unified interface, loading images on demand as necessary. Users can play or pause the slideshow at will, or jump to specific photos using the thumbnail bar.

Friends-only albums
When creating an album, users can now choose to restrict viewing to only those users who are on their friends list.

Reputation support in comments
We have added support for IP.Board's reputation feature in comments posted within IP.Gallery.

Interface tweaks
We have updated the style of categories so that larger versions of the image are used, to give more impact. The image listing has also been updated, and will now show as many images on a row as the users browser can fit. This should improve the display of IP.Gallery for users who have higher screen resolutions. The image view screen has also been improved, including support for those features mentioned above.


Downloading

You can download IP.Gallery 3.1.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.]]> Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:09:39 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302580-ipgallery-310-released/ IP.Content 1.2.0 Released http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302389-ipcontent-120-released/ We are pleased to announce IP.Content 1.2.0 is now available in the client area.

The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Content, our community content system for IP.Board:


Field default values
There is now a per-field option to define the default value for the field. This default value will be used when the "add new record" form is displayed as the default value to place in the field. The user can still, of course, change this value while configuring their record.

Disable fields in listing and display templates
Many have requested a method of disabling specific fields from displaying in listing and display templates without having to modify the default templates (i.e. to exclude certain fields in the foreach loop, or to manually define the layout). As of 1.2.0 there are two new settings when configuring your fields to do just that. If you disable a field in the listing template, it simply won't show up there. You can even disable a field in the listing and display template and have a hidden field attached to the record, if you wish.

Additional sorting for database feeds
You will now be able to sort database feeds by meta-data fields (record id, last updated, submitted date, comment count, etc.). This will allow you to more easily create database feeds to show latest records, for instance.

Text formatting options for text input fields
There are now per-field settings on text-input fields (only) to allow you to define the following automatic formatting options:

  • Capitalize all letters
  • Lower-case all letters
  • Capitalize just the first letter of the string
  • Capitalize the first letter of each word in the string
  • Remove excess punctuation

You can mix and match, using more than one option, but of course some options will have no effect when used together (i.e. capitalize all letters, and lower-case all letters).

Attachment parsing for forum and blog feeds
Attachment parsing has been added for forum and blog feeds (provided you do not use the default strip tags and truncate calls in the template for the content value).

Attachment data available programatically
Some users have expressed interest in having access to attachment data in a more robust manner than simply passing the field through the IP.Content attachment parser. For instance, you may want to display 1 image from an attachment field in the listing, without having to worry about whether there are more than 1 images associated with the field.

Attachment data has now been added to a global cache during normal parsing routines, so that you may be able to programatically access the attachment data for the record and do more unique things with the data. A resource article on how to access this data will be forthcoming following the release.

WYSIWYG and Code Highlighter Support
We have added support into IP.Content to integrate with the following WYSIWYG and Code Editors:

  • TinyMCE
  • CKEditor
  • CodePress
  • EditArea
  • (None/default textarea)

You can select which editor interface you would like to use (be careful using WYSIWYG editors when editing certain content, as they will strip special tags) and the editor will be available when editing templates and content throughout the ACP. Even better, the code highlighters will be "smart" and recognize what type of content you are editing (javascript, css, html or php, depending on the block, template or page details). If you have a favorite editor that you would like to see integrated let us know. We've designed the system to make it easy to drop in (and remove) editor types as needed, so if we can integrate with your favorite editor, we're happy to do so.


Downloading

You can download IP.Content 1.2.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.]]> Fri, 15 Jan 2010 20:18:28 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302389-ipcontent-120-released/ IP.Downloads 2.1.0 Released http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302129-ipdownloads-210-released/ We are pleased to announce IP.Downloads 2.1.0 is now available in the client area.

The following is a list of what's new in this version of IP.Downloads, our file management application for IP.Board:

Friendly URLs

Friendly URLs have been implemented into IP.Downloads starting with version 2.1.

Ability to shut off "Resume breakpoints"

Most download accelerator clients support downloading multiple pieces of a file simultaneously. While this means that the file can download faster for the user, it also means that you can have multiple connections open from one user downloading a single file. Beginning with IP.Downloads 2.1 you can disallow requests for individual file parts to help control the number of open connections to your server.

Download sessions

Beginning with IP.Downloads 2.1, you can enable functionality that will cause IP.Downloads to create a unique URL for each file download request. The URL will expire once used (or after 24 hours, whichever comes first), helping to prevent users from sharing direct download links to the files.

Global settings

IP.Downloads 2.1 will allow you to configure maximum file size and screenshot dimension settings globally, while still allowing you to override those settings on a per-category level should you need to. This can help simplify updates to your download manager configuration for these particular settings which are commonly configured the same across all categories.

Support for link "types"

When submitting screenshot and file links, you will now be able to select what type of link you are submitting. The link types are configurable in the ACP so administrators can add and alter link types to better suit their site.

Upload progress meter

Through integration with the flash uploader used for uploading attachments to IP.Board posts, the download manager now supports a true progress bar for all uploads (if the user is using the Flash uploader as specified in their user control panel).

One record, many files

To date, IP.Downloads was designed to allow you to submit one file at a time (and one screenshot, depending on the configuration). IP.Downloads 2.1 takes the next step and allows you to submit multiple files and multiple screenshots per record.

Interface updates

The interface for the download manager has been tweaked and updated to provide a more polished feel, while distinguishing the user interface from the rest of the board.



Downloading

You can download IP.Downloads 2.1.0 if you have an active license in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.]]> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:20:08 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/302129-ipdownloads-210-released/ Release Candidates for IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301897-release-candidates-for-ipblog-ipgallery-and-ipdownloads/
IP.Gallery 3.1.0 RC 2
IP.Downloads 2.1.0 RC 3
IP.Blog 2.1.0 RC 2

Please note that all of these applications require IP.Board 3.0.5.

As this is a release candidate there may be bugs and issues with the software. Please report any issues using our bug tracker. Before reporting please first quickly check to see if anyone has already reported your issue.

Technical support is not available for this release.

Do not use this software on a public install. Wait for the final series for your public installs.

In general, only download and participate in the release candidate testing if you are comfortable working with testing software.


These will be the last release candidates for the products listed. The next release of each product will be a supported, final version release.]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:48:35 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301897-release-candidates-for-ipblog-ipgallery-and-ipdownloads/ IP.Content 1.2.0 Public Beta Available http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301778-ipcontent-120-public-beta-available/ IP.Content 1.2.0 Public Beta is now available

This is a BETA release of the IP.Content 1.2.0 update. Please report any bugs you find in the bug tracker.

Major New Features

  • Field default values
  • Disable fields in listing and display templates
  • Additional sorting for database feeds
  • Text formatting options for text input fields
  • Attachment parsing for forum and blog feeds
  • Attachment data available programmatically
  • WYSIWYG and Code Highlighter Support


The new features available in this update are detailed here: http://community.invisionpower.com/blog/1174/entry-3777-ipcontent-120-on-its-way/


Downloading

You can download this beta if you have an active license for IP.Content in the client area under 'Development Releases' in the 'Your Downloads' section.


As this is a beta release there will be bugs and issues with the software. Please report any issues using our bug tracker. Before reporting please first quickly check to see if anyone has already reported your issue.

Technical support is not available for this beta software.

Do not use this software on a public install. Wait for the final series for your public installs.

In general, only download and participate in the beta test if you are comfortable working with beta software.]]> Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:19:59 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301778-ipcontent-120-public-beta-available/ IP.Chat 1.0.0 Released http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301609-ipchat-100-released/ We are pleased to announce IP.Chat, our newest application, is now available.

IP.Chat is a DHTML-driven chat room application that makes heavy use of Javascript and AJAX technologies to present a feature-rich package that you and your members can use to chat real-time on your site.

  • Ability to turn system online and offline, as well as ability to allow specified groups access to the system while it is offline
  • Ability to require users to agree to a configurable terms of use page before being granted access
  • Ability to ban and kick users from the chat room
  • Ability to set chat room only opened between specific hours
  • "Who's chatting" hook for board index
  • Miscellaneous formatting options
  • All your IP.Board emoticons are available in IP.Chat
  • Your IP.Board bad-word list is imported into IP.Chat to filter messages
  • Sound events for user entering and leaving room plus new messages. Sounds can be disabled per-user.


IP.Chat installs on your IP.Board installation and is configurable like any other IPS application for skinning, colors, and more. The chat message exchanges are handled by IPS servers eliminating the need for you to worry about high-volume chat transactions on your local community server.

Pricing

The IP.Chat service is priced based on the number of users in your chat room at any one time. As a benefit to active IP.Board license holders, the first chat service package of 5 online users will be free!

5 online - Free with active IP.Board license
20 online - $19.99 / year
50 online - $29.99 / year
250 online - $79.99 / year

How to Order and Download

  • Login to the Client Area and go to New Purchase. Find IP.Chat: Free under Invision Power Board Optional Addons and click Buy Now.
  • Order as normal, the package is free so you will not be charged.
  • Go to Your Downloads and download the IP.Chat package.
  • Go to Your Purchases and select the IP.Chat package.
  • To use IP.Chat it must be associated with an IP.Board or IPS Community Hosting package. Select the package to associate with and you will then see a chat service key appear.


You can also upgrade or downgrade your chat service level in the purchases area.

Installation

  • If you are not on IP.Board 3.0.5, upgrade to it.
  • Upload all files contained within the upload directory of the IP.Chat zip file. This is just like installing any other application in IP.Board.
  • Go to Manage Applications & Modules in your IP.Board AdminCP.
  • Select the Install link next to the Chat Services application.
  • Once the install is complete you can go to My Apps and select Chat Services. Just enter the chat service key found under Your Purchases in the Client Area to activate.


You can also view documentation in the Customer Resources section for more information.
It is recommended that you do not use IP.Chat in addition to existing chat services application. If you wish to use IP.Chat and are using ParaChat or AddonChat integration, you should first uninstall that.


As this is the first release of a brand new product there could still be some remaining issues. If you experience problems please post a bug report or open a ticket for technical support.]]> Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:25:47 +0000 http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/301609-ipchat-100-released/ RC Releases for IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, IP.Downloads and IP.Chat http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/300859-rc-releases-for-ipblog-ipgallery-ipdownloads-and-ipchat/
IP.Gallery 3.1.0 RC 1
IP.Downloads 2.1.0 RC 2
IP.Blog 2.1.0 RC 1
IP.Chat RC 2

Please note that all of these applications require IP.Board 3.0.5.

As this is a release candidate there may be bugs and issues with the software. Please report any issues using our bug tracker. Before reporting please first quickly check to see if anyone has already reported your issue.
Technical support is not available for this release.
Do not use this software on a public install. Wait for the final series for your public installs.
In general, only download and participate in the beta test if you are comfortable working with beta software.


IP.Gallery
Major new features in 3.1.0 include:

Friendly Urls
Image Notes
Improved Slideshow
Profile Picture Album
Sub Albums
Category and Album Covers
Friends Only Albums
Reputation Support
Interface Improvements

IP.Downloads
Major new features in 2.1.0 include:

Friendly Urls
Resume Breakpoints Toggle
Per Category Settings
Download Sessions
Storage Improvements

IP.Blog
Major new features in 2.1.0 include:

Efficiency Improvements
Categories
Interface Improvements
List View Returns
RSS Imports
Banish Entries
Admin CP Improvements

This RC 1 release also fixes a bug with entry deletion and HTML being incorrectly imported with an RSS feed.

IP.Chat
For more information on IP.Chat including a feature overview and installation instructions, please see our previous announcement.

Upgrading from an earlier non-RC release?

If you are running a version of IP.Chat older than RC 1, please note that the application key has changed to prevent further and future conflicts with the existing chat application included with IP.Board. You should do the following in order to use the RC 1 release of IP.Chat 1.0:

  • Uninstall the "Chat Services" application from your IP.Board admin control panel
    • If you get an SQL error attempting to uninstall the application, please remove the folder admin/applications_addon/ips/chat/setup/ and then re-attempt the uninstallation.
  • Remove the folder admin/applications_addon/ips/chat via FTP
  • Install the new "Chat Services" application from your IP.Board admin control panel
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