Gavrisimo

Mark I am shocked by your response and only makes me feel we will be waiting a long time for extra common gateways. I love Nexus but the lack of payment gateways is a huge negative for me.

FYI I am manually adding about 10
+ sales from 2checkout and Moneybookers per week.

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.4

IP.Board 3.1.4 is a maintenance release that fixes issues reported in the previous version and also adds required support for the new application updates scheduled to be released over the next few weeks. We were forced to release patches to 3.1.3 to address a few unforeseen issues with updates to IP.Board so it would be compatible with our new application releases. Version 3.1.4 is a version-number increment so all of our customers can be sure they are fully up to date with those patches. In addition to the 3.1.3 patches it also contains a few other bug fixes and small changes however there are no skin template, CSS, or language changes.


Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.1.4 in the client area. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.

If you are already running IP.Board 3.1.3 you can also download an upgrade pack in the client area that contains only those files changed between 3.1.3 and 3.1.4 which allows for a faster upgrade process.


Support Note

As with any release, please expect support response times (particularly for install/upgrade requests) to be longer than usual for the next few days. Refer to your license terms for support response SLAs. The upgrade pack for 3.1.3 to 3.1.4 makes upgrades much faster and easier so, whenever possible, you may wish to consider taking advantage of that option.

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.2 and its Applications

• IP.Board 3.1.2
  Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more.
  
  
• IP.Gallery 3.2.2
  Categories and photo albums for your members to share their images and videos on your community.
  
  
• IP.Blog 2.2.2
  Allow you and your members to post blogs on your community or syndicate externally hosted blogs easily.
  
  
• IP.Downloads 2.2.2
  Complete file management application including file version control, commenting, and forum topic linking.
  
  
• IP.Content 2.0.2
  Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simply community portal. The possibilities are endless.
  
  
• IP.Chat 1.1.2
  Engage your members in real time chat or send them private chats while in the chat room.

In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:

• Microsoft SQL Server Database Drivers for alternate database solutions.
  
• IP.Board iPhone App for easy mobile access for you and your members!
  
• Converter Services to convert from other community software to IPS.
  
• Skin Generator service to easily create a custom skin for your community.
  
• Spam Monitoring Service to stop spam account registration at the source.

Downloading

You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.





What's New

We have fixed many dozens of reported issues and added new features including:

• Improved SQL error display
  
• Moved topic redirect expiration, archive personal conversations, OpenID email is no longer required: full info
  
• Live search in AdminCP and Dashboard improvements
  
• Incomplete registration clarifications
  
• Various interface improvements to the SQL Toolbox
  
• Improvements to how secondary member groups are counted in the AdminCP

Donations for Autism Research and Support

Our recent fund drive for autism research has been a success. As of today, we have reached our goal of $1000! All the funds were raised from our community of customers and we would like to express our sincere thanks for your donations.

Invision Power Services is happy to be able to 100% match all donations made by our community. Therefore, we are thrilled to be able to make a donation of $2000 to Autism Speaks on behalf of the company and our customer-community. Again, you have our sincerest appreciation for your generosity during this fund raiser.

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.0 and its Applications!

• IP.Board 3.1.0
  Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more.
  
  
• IP.Gallery 3.2.0
  Categories and photo albums for your members to share their images and videos on your community.
  
  
• IP.Blog 2.2.0
  Allow you and your members to post blogs on your community or syndicate externally hosted blogs easily.
  
  
• IP.Downloads 2.2.0
  Complete file management application including file version control, commenting, and forum topic linking.
  
  
• IP.Content 2.0.0
  Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simply community portal. The possibilities are endless.
  
  
• IP.Chat 1.1.0
  Engage your members in real time chat or send them private chats while in the chat room.

In addition to the core software, the following products and services are also available:

• Microsoft SQL Server Database Drivers for alternate database solutions.
  
• IP.Board iPhone App for easy mobile access for you and your members!
  
• Converter Services to convert from other community software to IPS.
  
• Skin Generator service to easily create a custom skin for your community.
  
• Spam Monitoring Service to stop spam account registration at the source.

Downloading

You can download these releases in the client area and begin enjoying the new features.


Version 3.1.1 Coming Soon

IPS is dedicated to promptly fixing any reported issues and will do so with the release of version 3.1.1 soon after 3.1.0's release. You may also wish to keep an eye on our knowledge base where we will release patches for any critical issues that come up between the two version releases.

As defined in the release notes: because this is the first widely-distributed release there will be as yet undiscovered issues. You can expect a maintenance release, IP.Board 3.1.1 (and other application maintenance releases), in the next two to three weeks (around mid-June) to address issues reported in this first supported release. We appreciate your understanding and hope you can assist us in identifying any problems in this first supported release so we can quickly remedy them in our next update.




What's New

We hope you are as excited as IPS staff is about what's new in these product versions. Here are the highlights:

IP.Board 3.1.0

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. Including new Facebook Graph API

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. And Improvements

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.

Template Merge Tool
Merge skin changes between versions right in the AdminCP.

All new Mobile Skin
Mobile skin for many popular devices to enable easy access to your community.

Automatic Media Embedding
Automatic parsing of YouTube and other media into posts.


Plus many bugs fixed from the 3.0.5 version and performance improvements.


IP.Content 2.0.0

Feed Block Updates
Great updates to make these blocks even more useful.

Database Improvements: Part 1 and Part 2
Improvements to database usability.

Page Interface Enhancements
Makes working with Pages in the admin area easier.

Friendly URLs for Databases
Database URLs become human and search engine friendly.

Template Improvements
Easier to work with templates and updates.

Forum Integration
More tools to enhance content sharing between your forums and pages.

Articles
Support for a comprehensive articles system.


IP.Chat 1.1.0

Chat Count and Private Chats
Show number of people in the room at top of page and support for private member-to-member chats.

Local Chat Logs
View, search, and interact with your chat logs right in the admin area.

Note that, as of IP.Board 3.1's release, the old Parachat and Addonchat modules are no longer directly supported by IPS.


Skin Generator Service

Introducing Skin Generator
Our new, free service to active IP.Board license holders to easily generate a custom skin for their community.

Improvements to Skin Generator
New features and enhancements to the service.


Spam Monitoring Service

Many Enhancements
Many additions to the spam service both in IP.Board and behind the scenes to help combat spam on your community.


IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads

The new versions of these products are maintenance releases to fix known issues and to add compatibility for IP.Board 3.1.0. Also, IP.Blog received the new sharing tools from IP.Board. All of these products will receive full feature upgrades this summer.


CleanCut, MSSQL Database Driver, and Converter Services

CleanCut skin has been updated to support the new application versions.

The MSSQL database driver has been greatly enhanced and stabilized from previous versions, now only support MSSQL 2005+, and we are phasing out deprecated field types for greater efficiency.

Converter Services are now available for IP.Board 3.1.

IP.Board iPhone App

The new IP.Board iPhone App is available and APIs for its use are included in IP.Board 3.1.0.

Manual patch instructions:

admin/sources/classes/bbcode/custom/defaults.php

~line 1839 find

$this->cache->updateCacheWithoutSaving( '_tmp_bbcode_media', $existing );

add after

		//-----------------------------------------
		// XSS check
		//-----------------------------------------
		
		if( !IPSText::xssCheckUrl( $content ) )
		{
			return $content;
		}

Hosting integration is something we will surely be adding to a future version. It's just a bit too big of a thing for a 1.0.0 release

It would be great if IP.Commerce integrated with cPanel/WHM, Plesk and DirectAdmin for automated hosting account creation.

The only other decent hosting billing system out there right now is WHMCS and since IP.Commerce sounds like it will handle everything else quite well this addition would make it a perfect fit for many of us (that offer hosting services).

We have identified an issue with the Calendar application present in IP.Board 2.3.6 and 3.0.5. This issue can allow a visitor to delete events in the Calendar even if the user does not have the proper permissions to do so. Other than the ability to delete events without permission there are no other security risks with this issue.

Please apply this patch if you are using IP.Board version 2.3.6 or 3.0.5 and you are using the Calendar application. If you do not use the Calendar application then there is no need to be concerned with this update.

Patch files are attached to this topic. The main downloads for IP.Board 2.3.6 and 3.0.5 have been updated.

It has come to our attention that there is a possible XSS exploit present in both IP.Board 2.3.6 and 3.0.x. This vulnerability allows the attacker to insert CSS or Javascript into certain BBCodes that is executed when a user displays the page.

Resolution
Please download the relevant zip for your IP.Board. Expand the zip file and upload the file over the copy on your server. No other action is required.

IP.Board 3.0.5
 305-march-10.zip   35.55K   1400 downloads

Please note this patch will only work with IP.Board 3.0.5. If you are using an earlier version of IP.Board 3.0 then you will need to upgrade to IP.Board 3.0.5. After you have upgraded, you will not need to add this patch.

IP.Board 2.3.6
 236xss_march10.zip   15.61K   2034 downloads

The main download zips have been updated. If you have downloaded either 2.3.6 or 3.0.5 since the time of this announcement, then you do not need to patch your installation.

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.

Jaggi,

You are right, most of the stats can be gotten to easily, however there are a great deal many that cannot, like moderation trending, etc, reputation trending, etc. In addition, the presentation and ease of use could be seriously improved. I'm in the process of putting together an outline for the proposed product and some mockups to further the idea.

The goal of IP.Metrics would be:

• Listen, to what is being said.
• Engage, tactically and strategicially.
• Measure, quantify, rather than guess.

Core Features

• Group Scoping, get granular with permissions and the analytical information you're reporting. Create custom pages for different groups, showing them specific information relevant for them. Whether it's moderation metrics for your moderation team. Or custom reports for your community management team, showing them trending topics.
• Widget Reporting. The reports would be done by widgets and placed on pages. Allowing users to custom create their own widgets for their own communities.
• Graphing. Metrics can be displayed in various graph form or in detailed form, with important trending for comparible time periods.

How well do you understand your community?

• Are your keywords and phrases being mentioned negatively or positively?
• How are your members contributing to create content?
• Where are your moderators spending time?
• What content is most accessed?
• How is content being used?
• What are your sites strengths and weaknesses?
• What is the experiance time for your customer?

A couple of specific examples:

• Hot Topics - Helping you understand the customer voice, track the mentions of specific keywords and phrases.
• Temperature - Are posts with your specific keywords and phrases getting good reputation or bad reputation?
• Issues Radar - Find topics being discussed that you didn't know were important. If there are fast appearing topics that aren't in your existing keyword or phrase tracker, this shows you upcoming.
• Application based metrics. Show us which applications are being used, how, and the metrics.
• Identify - There are users who participate, those whom create. Tools to help you identify whom is who and look at the types of content they're creating or participating in.
• Track Searches - If you know what your people are looking for on your site, you can help them find it. Find the content and highlight it.
• Contributions - Reports for blogs, galleries, content pages, chat topics, etc.
• Types of users - Infleuncers (lots of friends, posts get lots of topics, posts have significant outbound links, posts have good reputation, recieve lots of views). Infleucners would be people in your community you want to assist to help in your community. Other types of users would be commentors, connectors, askers, answerers, originators, creators, etc.

That's a very rough outline mind you but you get the idea of why I think a solid metrics package could help nearly any community.

Luke, on 23 December 2009 - 03:05 PM, said:

Google can't track logged in users across different IPs (e.g. work & home).  Its not that smart.  Plus I don't like their JS.  I prefer server-side, not client-side tracking.  For instance, I actually have google-analytics.com blocked, so I am invisible to them and that skews the stats.

With this you could target segments using profile data (male, female, age), high post areas, specific groups.  Granted, some of that you could already (profile stuff), but then that information can be combined.  You could provide good demographic information to advertisers, not just pageviews, unique visits, bounce rates, etc.  For someone who wants to actually sell ad space, not just let Google do it, this would be something to really bump up the CTR.

Keith

In addition to tracking visitors, pageviews, signups, etc., IP.Metrics would show you how many threads and posts are being created over time. It also shows which threads are the most active, most viewed, etc on a daily, or variable basis. How many PM's were sent in a given period, who are the most communicative members. Give the most status updates, etc. What are popular topics, etc. I'd love to see topic trending, hot topics, topic metrics. Who are the power users, spending most time on the site, conversion rates for new users to post, new users time on site, etc.

Now, no one should disagree: message boards are hard to monetize conversations trapped inside them. If one could solve this quandary, they could somehow make money. I think good analytics is going to be key. If IP customers can make money easier, then IP in turn should make more money.

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

We are aware that some users are experiencing an error with the beta release of IP.Chat when trying to launch the chat room

[#CJOIN-0] There was an error connecting with the chat room. Please notify an administrator.

This error is NOT related to the browser you use. The error indicates that you managed to connect to our gateway server fine, but had trouble connecting to the actual chat server.

Please note the following:

• We are aware some users are experiencing this error and are troubleshooting it presently. There's no need to submit any more bug reports on it, or open new topics about it (though feel free to reply to this one if you wish).
• There is not likely anything you can personally do to fix this issue, so don't bother looking for settings to change or templates to rebuild, in an attempt to correct the problem.
• In *most* cases, if you simply refresh the page you will be able to access the chat room

We understand that any error prohibiting you from actually making use of the software can be frustrating, but this is exactly what a beta release is intended for - to help us identify issues that crop up in uncontrolled environments that we aren't seeing in our controlled environments. Please be patient while we work out the various bugs you are finding with chat. We are sure you will be very happy with the final product, and we thank you for taking the time to test chat in it's current stage so we can nail down these problems and get them fixed before it goes final.


I will update this topic once we believe we've found a solution so that you can test further. If you are not experiencing the problem, feel free to continue testing chat otherwise. And as stated above, generally a simple refresh of the page will allow you to proceed past the error.