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We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.2 has been released.

This is the second maintenance release for IP.Board 3 and addresses various bugs and adds in some enhancements to existing features. Also, IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads have received a maintenance update.

Major Changes Since 3.0.1

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed, the following large changes and fixes have been made in the 3.0.2 release:

• Improved search and member list performance
  
• Date filter options for Active Content page
  
• Many improvements for Sphinx searching (i.e. ability to filter by forum, ability to search titles only, ability to group posts as topics, plugin functionality for modifying the query, and misc bug fixes)
  
• Ability to hide an application's tab on the front end, while still allowing it to be publicly accessible
  
• Improved IP address lookup tool can now support add-on applications
  
• Portal option to not pin pinned topics for articles
  
• Added link to user profile when editing a member in ACP
  
• Added display of time remaining for suspended members when editing a member in ACP
  
• Spam Monitoring Service support
  
• Ability to control image quality for Gallery images (jpg/png only)
  
• PHP version 5.3 is now supported in IP.Board except for OpenID login method. We are awaiting updates from OpenID vendors.

Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.0.2 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.




Spam Monitoring Service

To retrieve your key, login to your client area and go to your purchases. You will see an option to create a spam service key. Place that key in the Spam Service settings in your IP.Board 3.0.2 AdminCP.

Subscriptions Manager

The first Release Candidate of Subscriptions Manager is now available in the client area. While not the final version, feedback has been good and several clients are using it on their live site. However, we do of course suggest you wait until the final version before using it live.

MS-SQL Database Driver

The MS-SQL database driver is now available for new installations of IP.Board 3. Upgrade capability from IP.Board 2 will be available within the next two weeks.

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Spam Monitoring Service: Legacy License Holders

As the Spam Monitoring Service incurs additional operating costs for IPS to operate it is only available to IPS Hosting customers plus IP.Board Standard, IP.Board Business, and Community Suite license holders. Those holding old Lifetime or Perpetual licenses cannot participate in this service as that license type only includes technical support and access to product upgrades - not our new advanced services - since those services were not even conceived several years ago when those license types were offered. Of course the new spam service is our only new advanced service but we do have more planned and must begin the transition process now.

To allow those holding Lifetime or Perpetual licenses to switch to a Standard license while still recognizing their long-standing status we will offer the following methods to switch:

Lifetime License: Your first renewal date will be a full year from the date you request to switch. This means if you requested the change August 15, 2009 you would not be invoiced for any renewal charges until August 15, 2010.

Perpetual License: Your first renewal date would be 6 months from the time of your then-current renewal date. This means that if your Perpetual license support was set to expire December 19, 2009 then your new Standard license renewal would be June 19, 2010.


Finally, it is certainly not required that any Lifetime or Perpetual license holder switch to a Standard license or otherwise pay any additional fees. If you are not interested in the spam service or wish to wait until we have more advanced services in the future you can certainly do so. IPS will continue to honor your product upgrade and technical support services under the Lifetime and Perpetual licenses as we have for many years now.

Please submit a ticket if you have any questions or wish to make a change.

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Changed file report:  changedFiles.txt   29.88K   1755 downloads

Skin difference report:  IPBDiff-3-0-2.html.zip   69.64K   1373 downloads

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Some customers are reporting various functionality in IP.Board not working since upgrading to version 3.0.2. We have narrowed down most of these causes to one root issue which came up as we tightened security for certain functions. If you are experiencing issues with 3.0.2, please download the attached file and upload the new files. If you are not experiencing any issues (or you have not already upgraded to 3.0.2) there is no need to upload these files. Also, if you download version 3.0.2 after the time of this post you already have the updates in your download zip file.

Our apologies for the frustration this has caused some customers. We do quality assurance testing before releasing maintenance versions but these specific issues do not present themselves except under special circumstances.

Apply new files if you see any of these issues in 3.0.2:

• Emoticons and some other JavaScript functions not functioning
  
• Rich text editor disabled in some browsers
  
• Spam service database table not being created properly
  
• Error when deleting a post
  
• Users with certain character sets seeing debug information on upgrade

If you experience any other issues or need help feel free to submit a support ticket for assistance.

Attached Files

•  302_changed_files.zip   117.43K   1186 downloads

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Here are the IPB 3.0.2 CSS changes as compared to the IPB 3.0.1 default skin.

Note: You would only need the above edits for third party skins or for CSS files you changed prior to upgrading. If you have not touched a CSS file, the upgrade would have already made these changes to that file for you.


Files affected:
ipb_editor.css
ipb_styles.css
ipb_ie.css
ipb_messenger.css
ipb_print.css



Edits in ipb_styles.css

Find:

ul.post_controls {

Replace with:

ul.post_controls,
div.post_controls {

Find:

	.author_info ul.user_fields li {
		clear: both;
		font-size: 0.9em;
		color: #718a96;
		padding-bottom: 2px;
		overflow: hidden;
	}

Add after:

.author_info ul.user_fields {
		clear: both;
	}

Find:

.author_info ul.user_fields li span {

Replace with:

.author_info ul.user_fields li span.ft,
.author_info ul.user_fields li span.fc {

Find:

.active_users span.name {
	font-size: 0.9;

Replace with:

.active_users span.name {
		font-size: 0.9em;

Find:

pre.prettyprint 		{ padding: 5px; background: #f8f8f8; border: 1px solid #c9c9c9; overflow: auto; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 110%; }

Replace with:

pre.prettyprint 		{ padding: 5px; background: #f8f8f8; border: 1px solid #c9c9c9; overflow: auto; margin-left: 10px; font-size: 11px; line-height: 140%; }

Edits for ipb_editor.css


Find:

#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .editor,

Replace with:

#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .editor{

Find & Remove (may not be there if you didn't do CSS changes from previous version):

#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .resizer {

Find:

	#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar {
		position: absolute;
		top: 0px;
		right: 0px;
		width: 194px;
		bottom: 1px;
		margin: 0;
		border-width: 1px;
		border-style: solid;
		border-color: #f6f8fa #d5dde5 #d5dde5 #f6f8fa;
	}

Replace with:

	#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar {
		position: absolute;
		top: 0px;
		right: 1px;
		width: 195px;
		bottom: 1px;
		margin: 0;
		border-width: 1px;
		border-style: solid;
		border-color: #f6f8fa #d5dde5 #d5dde5 #f6f8fa;
	}

Find:

			#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar h4 span {
				padding: 6px 0 0 6px;
				display: block;
			}

Add below:

			#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar h4 img {
				float: right;
				margin: 6px 6px 0 0;
				cursor: pointer;
			}

Find:

	#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar .emoticon_holder {
			position: absolute;
			top: 25px;
			bottom: 1px;
			width: 193px;
			overflow: auto;
		}

Replace with:

	#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar .emoticon_holder {
			position: absolute;
			top: 25px;
			bottom: 25px;
			width: 100%;
			overflow: auto;
		}

Add below that:

		#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar .emoticon_holder  td {
			padding: 5px 0;
		}
		
		#ipboard_body .show_all_emoticons {
			bottom: 0px;
			position: absolute;
			width: 100%;
			text-align: center;
			background: #e4ebf2;
			height: 25px;
		}
		
			#ipboard_body .ips_editor.with_sidebar .sidebar .emoticon_holder.no_bar {
				bottom: 0px;
			}

Find:

	#ipboard_body .ips_editor .toolbar {
		height: 30px;
		/*clear: both;*/

Remove:

/*clear: both;*/

Find & Delete (may not be there if you didn't do CSS changes from previous version)

		#ipboard_body .ips_editor .resizer .toolbar {
			background: transparent;
			border: 0;
		}

Edits for ipb_ie.css

Find:

#ipboard_body #conversation ul.post_controls {
	padding-bottom: 0;
	height: 32px;
}

Add below:

#ipboard_body #topic_mod_2 {
	padding-top: 10px;
	margin-top: -5px;
}

Find & Remove (may not be there if you didn't do CSS changes from previous version):

/*#ipboard_body .user_controls li img {
	margin: 4px 0;
}

Add in place of above or anywhere:

.post_block {
	zoom: 1;
}

Find (may not be there if you didn't do CSS changes from previous version):

#ipboard_body .user_controls li {
	margin: 0 4px 0 0;
	text-align: center;
}*/

Add in place of above or add anywhere:

pre.prettyprint { padding: 5px 5px 20px 5px; }

Edits in ipb_messenger.css

Find:

	#participants #participants_list span.name.blocked a {
		color: #ad2930;
	}

Add Below:

#space_allowance {
	clear: both;
}

Edits in ipb_print.css



Find:

html #content {
	font-size: 10pt;
}

Replace with:

html #content {
	font-size: 10pt;
		direction: rtl;
}

Find:

.posted_info {
	color: gray !important;
	font-size: 8pt !important;
	text-decoration: none !important;
	border-bottom: 1pt solid lightgray;
	padding-bottom: 3px;
}

Replace With:

.posted_info {
	color: gray !important;
	font-size: 8pt !important;
	text-decoration: none !important;
	border-bottom: 1pt solid #d3d3d3;
	padding-bottom: 3px;
}

Thanks to SmashinGarcia for making this list.