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While someone I am sure is typing out the answer to all of your questions ... I went ahead and created a 7-day demo account and emailed the information to you.

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 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.

We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.5 has been released.

This is a maintenance release for IP.Board 3 and addresses various bugs, security enhancements, and performance improvements.

Major Changes Since 3.0.4

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed and performance improvements, the following security enhancements were made:

• SQL and local file include issue fixed. Note: Due to protection within the SQL driver classes, it is very difficult to effectively exploit IP.Board using this attack. Also you need moderator permissions to perform any exploit. We've hardened this code regardless. Also, due to the input cleaning functions IP.Board uses, the local file include is limited to PHP files on the file system as the usual 'null byte' trick is ineffective.
  
• Internet Explorer XSS Issue due to incorrect attachment handling fixed.

Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.0.5 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.


IP.Board 2.3.6 Security Update
Below is a zip containing the patched files for 2.3.6.
 ipb236-dec-patch.zip   14.09K   1216 downloads

OK guys,
I am currently running a vbulletin forum with a professional design set. My first and foremost worry about moving over to invision was the design of my forum. My thought behind this is that it is going to be a big enough move over to invision as it stands without the fact that the forum will look completely different.

NOW, bare in mind I only purchased invision less than 24 hours ago. I have almost managed to duplicate the look of my forum with only a very very basic knowledge of CSS and some knowledge of photoshop. How have I done this? I would seriously urge you to have a good read through the topic on this forum http://www.smartestc...showtopic=37422

This tutorial, I would print out and have at the side of you throughout your transition. Its simple, and it works...... Dont worry about your skinning guys. IMO its easier than vbulletin 3.8 and at the end of the day, you would have to learn 4.0 anyways.

Skin Difference Report:

We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.4 has been released.

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

Major Changes Since 3.0.3

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed, the following large changes and fixes have been made in the 3.0.4 release:

• IP.Board: RTE support in Safari and Chrome
  
• IP.Downloads: Option to not check filetype for linked files

Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.0.4 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.

Feedback noted. It's a shame we've gotten off on the wrong foot.

If you've nothing further to add, then I'll close this topic in case it gets out of hand.

Matt, on 18 September 2009 - 06:20 AM, said:

IE: you ignore your customers until you're "told" to deal with them, instead of dealing with issues as they come in. Deliberate, not deliberate, it is not paying attention to the ticket in a timely fashion.
So, client A waits 12 hours to reply to a ticket, putting everyone else on hold that 12 hours. Multitasking anyone?

Matt, on 18 September 2009 - 06:20 AM, said:

Are you kidding ? Really, $20/month is "cheap"? No, actually it's not. Considering the web hosting market is full of offers with more space/bandwidth/etc than you can imagine for less than 1/4 of what you offer, no, it's not 'cheap', and no, it's not unrealistic for me to expect what should be delivered.

Matt, on 18 September 2009 - 06:25 AM, said:

So, let's all be good little robots and not do anything out of order.
Again, you're ignoring a ticket. Whether deliberate, or because you're being told to, no matter.
Was the ticket placed in the proper department? Absolutely, because it was 100% relative to that department
Was it handled in a timely fashion? Absolutely not.
When I have the time to find and address the issue myself (ie: run the conversion, multiple times) before a response is actually given, then, there's an issue.

Skin Difference Report
For power users who wish to know the specific changes to the skin templates in this version. Most users can ignore this.

We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.3 has been released.

This is a 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 3.0.2

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed, the following large changes and fixes have been made in the 3.0.3 release:

• New option for dealing with members marked as spam: Unapprove posts, clear profile data and ban user
  
• Ability to mark members as spammers from the Manage Validating Queue in the ACP
  
• Added ability to edit status and about me information from moderator edit member page
  
• Profile screen now displays member's email address if viewer is an administrator
  
• OpenID now supports PHP 5.3.0

Subscriptions Manager

Subscriptions Manager RC 2 is now available in the client area.

MS-SQL Database Driver

MSSQL Driver RC 1 released for IP.Board, IP.Blog, IP.Gallery and IP.Downloads. Includes ability to upgrade from 2.3.6

CleanCut Skin

The new CleanCut skin will be made available as a separate download soon. A blog entry will be posted with information when it is available.

IP.Converge 1.1.1 Released

This is a maintenance update to IP.Converge to address reported issues.




Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.0.3 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.

Community Content System 1.0.0 Released

Many clients have expressed interest in tools that would allow them to extend IP.Board's traditional forum community functionality by providing methods of creating new pages within the IP.Board framework.  Uses for such a system span from a simple custom portal all the way through to a complete website built utilizing IP.Board's powerful backend codebase.  When your community and site systems are truly integrated, single sign on and a matching website/forum theme become much easier.

• Page Templates
  If you are creating many pages for your website you will find that they generally follow a similar structure each time.  By utilizing page templates, you can create templates complete with the full functionality of our skin system, including use of template conditionals and plugins. You can create the HTML structure once, and reuse it for some or all of your pages. Novice users can type in normal HTML code or power users can choose to use the powerful skin tags.
  
  
• Page Manager
  The core of CCS: this tool allows you to create pages, plain and simple. No fancy terminology or new methods to learn. A wizard will guide you through creating your pages, and allow you to configure things like permissions for who can view the page, which page template to use, and more. Pages can be edited as raw HTML, raw PHP, or through our traditional WYSIWYG editor using BBCode. You can also set page-types as JavaScript or CSS and the system will automatically detect those special types.
  
  
• Media Manager
  A tool to allow you to manage images and other media for your site.  You can define the root path to your file storage directory, and then create folders and upload image files within that directory via the ACP. You can move and delete files and folders from the ACP as well.
  
  
• Block Manager
  An extremely powerful tool that allows you to create "blocks" for your pages. Blocks are inserted utilizing template plugins so you can insert blocks anywhere in the CCS content or even anywhere in your forum community using the skin manager in the admin control panel. This means that content blocks you create in CCS are not just limited to that application!  There are three types of blocks you will work with:
  
  
  • Custom - create blocks by editing BBCode (using our WYSIWYG editor), raw HTML, or raw PHP. Input any information you like.
    
  • Plugins - some blocks require code to execute in order to determine what should be shown.  For instance, you may wish to show a mini-calendar on one of your pages or a login box so users can login right from your home page.  Plugin blocks allow developers to create blocks that can easily plugin to the system without having to create code modifications.
    
  • Feeds - not just limited to RSS.  You can create "feeds" of almost any type of data - forums, topics, replies, calendar events, blog entries, gallery images, download manager files, and of course traditional RSS imports.  A wizard will guide you through creating these feeds, allowing you to specify how the feed should be pulled (do you want to show the last 5 gallery images?  what about a random sampling of forum topics? how about all topics from the visitor's friends list since their last visit?) to make it simpler for you to define the block.

The system is very flexible, allowing you to do nearly anything you want, while at the same time providing a simple user interface and wizard-based approach for creating content to keep things easy for newer users. Power users can ignore all the special features and just type in raw-PHP if they prefer. The choice is up to the administrator.

The CCS supports friendly urls (you define the folders and page names while creating pages), and does not require the page output to be accessed through your forum directory. This means you can have your community at example.com/forums but your main web site can show under just example.com easily. You can use IP.Board's skin system (inheriting the forum skin) or you can elect to create raw pages without inheriting any CSS, wrapper, or JavaScript from IP.Board.

More Information

Check out these blog entries for more information:

• Blocks Overview
  
• Pages Overview
  
• Media Manager
  
• Templates

Also, our own web site (http://www.invisionpower.com) is now powered by CCS.

Pricing and Availability

As CCS is a new product and will require time to mature into the fully-featured content system we know all of our customers expect, we are introducing the product at a greatly reduced price. We have many great ideas to enhance CCS as we continue to develop the system and made a decision for this 1.0.0 release not to go overboard with features but focus on creating a stable "core" product to work with. Just wait for version 1.1.0 where we have all sorts of fun additions planned.

The introductory price for those of you wanting to start using CCS right now is just $35 with a yearly renewal of $30 for support/services/upgrades.

Not only does this reduced price give those of you who decide to buy early a great discount but it also allows us to phase in some of the product enhancements over time without having pricing pressures at the very start. As for the final price in the future: we have not yet set it so take advantage of this low price if you are interested in CCS.

Existing clients can login to the client area, click New Purchase, then choose Invision Power Board Optional Addons to purchase. Our web site will be updated with CCS information in the next week.

The following skin difference and changed file reports are provided for power users who wish to manually upgrade. Most customers will not need to use these reports.

We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.1 has been released.

This is the first maintenance release for IP.Board 3 and addresses the most critical issues discovered during the first large-scale usage of IP.Board 3's release. Also, IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads have received a maintenance update. Thanks to everyone who was an early-user of IP.Board 3.0.0 and reported issues that you came across.

Major Changes Since 3.0.0

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed, the following large changes and fixes have been made in 3.0.1 release:

• View new content changes so its more like 2.3.6 where it's based off last visit. Option to use the 3.0 style in user settings.
  
• Option to view search results in a view similar to a forum.
  
• More filter and sort options with search
  
• Optimized search and view new content to improve performance
  
• Sessions not clearing in some PHP versions fixed. Will improve performance on those versions.
  
• Language import / export system is much more stable now.
  
• Slow queries in the Portal have been optimized.
  
• Many Facebook Connect issues have been addressed.
  
• PM counts being incorrect have been fixed.
  
• Old media tag and quote tag issues impacting display of older posts fixed.
  
• Watched content hook in sidebar resource usage addressed.

Important: We have received reports of IP.Board 3.0.1 not working correctly on servers running PHP version 5.3. Please do not upgrade to IP.Board 3 if your host runs PHP 5.3. We are working on a fix for this issue and should have it in place for 3.0.2 release.


Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.0.1 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.






Subscriptions Manager

A fully supported version of Subscriptions Manager is not yet available for IP.Board 3 just yet. The first beta of SM compatible with IP.Board 3 can be downloaded in the customer lounge on the IPS company forums. A second beta of SM is expected in the next few days. As soon as possible (depending on feedback from the beta releases) we will be releasing a supported version of SM.

MS-SQL Database Driver

The MS-SQL database driver will be out as a beta release early next week. Keep an eye out for an announcement regarding this update.

Update on Scheduling

We recently hired additional staff to assist with the increased conversion requests. This will allow us to serve your conversion request faster than we originally anticipated. Thank you to all for your interest and welcome to all new converts to the IPS family!

We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.0 and its Applications have been released.

This is the first supported release of Invision Power Board 3.0.0! We would like to thank everyone who has helped beta test the product so we can release as stable a product as possible today.

Products Released

• Invision Power Board 3.0.0
  
• Invision Power Gallery 3.0.0
  
• Invision Power Blog 2.0.0
  
• Invision Power Downloads 2.0.0
  
• Invision Power Converge 1.1.0

Please note that this is the very first supported release of these products. As with any large software product, it can take several maintenance releases to work out most of the remaining bugs or oddities left in the software which are only discovered when many thousands of installs are done. We had an extensive beta period and a staggered launch of IP.Board 3.0.0 to catch most issues. Initial feedback on 3.0.0's first supported release has been great but, even so, we do expect to have a 3.0.1 release in the next couple weeks.


Downloading and Installing

You can download all products you have a license for in the IPS client area. There are no upgrade packs as this update requires you upload all files in the download.

Be sure to follow the install upgrade instructions. Remember that any skins, modifications, graphics, etc. on your version 2.x IPB will not work on IP.Board 3.0. You will not lose any posts or member information in the upgrade.


Technical Support

Technical support is now available for IP.Board 3.0.0 and the Applications. Please be patient during this initial launch phase as response times may be longer than normal due to the increased volume of requests. Phone support will also be delayed.

Important: If you would like our staff to install or upgrade for you, please be aware that there can be delays of many days for install or upgrade services during this initial launch phase. Whenever possible, please consider performing the install or upgrade yourself to save time waiting.



Above all: enjoy the new products! We have worked hard on the updates and wish you continued success with your online communities!







Subscriptions Manager and MS-SQL Database

The subscriptions manager and MS-SQL database driver are not yet available. They will be released separately very soon. Our apologies for the delay. Rest assured we are making these releases a priority.

New IPS Web Site

We are also launching our new company web site on invisionpower.com today. Please forgive any navigation issues on the site while we apply the new content.