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[Matt]

Welcome to IP.Board 3.1.0 Beta 1!
Welcome to the latest development version of IP.Board 3.1.0. We're excited to reveal the product we've been working on for the past few months. This build contains all the features we've blogged about recently including the search improvements, Twitter integration, Profile Customization and more.

As always, this is a very early beta build so please expect to find the odd bug here and there. Please report any bugs found into the tracker as usual.

As always, we'd love to hear your feedback. Happy clicking!

Note: Please perform a hard refresh / delete temporary items in your browser to ensure you get the correct CSS and JS

Preview Only: IP.Board 3.1 is in preview only. It is not yet available for download. Keep an eye out for a future announcement.

What's New
Link Sharing
Easily share links from your community to Facebook, Twitter, and more. Great way to drive traffic to your community!

Status Updates
Enhancements to the existing member status system in IP.Board to include the ability to reply and more.

Topic Preview
Preview the first few lines of a topic without loading the entire topic.

View Reputation
Optionally allow your members to see who gave reputation points on their posts.

Twitter Integration
Your members can now link their account with their Twitter account!

Improved Facebook Integration
Further enhance the link between your community and Facebook to drive traffic.

Advertising Code Integration: Part 1 and Part 2
Easily place advertising code throughout your community with simple settings in the admin area.

Profile Customizations: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow your members to customize the look and feel of their profile page.

Skin Upgrader
Upgrading your skin between versions of IP.Board just became a lot easier.

Soft Delete Posts and Topics
Rather than actually deleting a post or topic you can now hide it from view to easily restore it later.

Notification System
An easier way to be notified of all the various events that happen in your community.

Modification Development Enhancements
Great tools for those that create modifications for IP.Board

Hook System Improvements
Improvements to the IP.Board hook system to make it easier for modification developers to expand the functions in the software.

Search Engine Optimization: Part 1 and Part 2
Allow search engines to better index and rank your community in results.

Search Engine Overhaul
Search engine rebuilt from the ground up introducing more flexibility and power.

[Matt]

I've updated this board to the latest development build. This update fixes many reported bugs and issues and also brings about a few improvements including:

- Fixes to the search engine
- Fixes to the active content display
- Fixes to the view new content display
- Fixed the "Type of view new content" user preference
- Fixes the "refresh to increment" bug in shared links
- Adds the ability to remove status import (which we have done on this board).

Please note that there are still several other bug fixes and improvements that are still being worked on. I know that View New Content is still returning a few 'read' items and this will be improved in a near-future update.

We have also reverted back to SQL searching to test this out more thoroughly.

[Matt]

I've just updated this board to the very latest development copy.

Please perform a hard refresh / delete any browser caches to ensure the very latest JS and CSS is retrieved by your browser. If you experience any JS errors or 'missing' features, it is likely to be a stale browser cache.

This update brings numerous fixes and a few additions:

- Colour picker on 'Background Color' field in the User's CP.


- Collapsable side bar blocks


- Topic preview pop-up displays the first match when searching


We have received a lot of feedback about the notifications system and this is very much on our list to improve.

[Matt]

I've just updated this board to the very latest development copy again.

Please perform a hard refresh / delete any browser caches to ensure the very latest JS and CSS is retrieved by your browser. If you experience any JS errors or 'missing' features, it is likely to be a stale browser cache.

Notable improvements in this version:
- New mobile skin now fully integrated into 3.1



- New user-agents added to cover most modern mobile phones. These are tied to the mobile skin


- New notifications drop down and other notification improvements


Please note that the mobile skin is still being developed and as such, please expect to notice a few niggles here and there.

[Matt]

I've just updated this board to the very latest development copy again.

Please perform a hard refresh / delete any browser caches to ensure the very latest JS and CSS is retrieved by your browser. If you experience any JS errors or 'missing' features, it is likely to be a stale browser cache.

This is the feature complete build and should be considered beta. As always, if you spot any issues, please report them in the tracker.

This update brings in the new Facebook APIs (we've not enabled the Like button yet) as well as changes to the notifications system and numerous bug fixes.