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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.1.3

This is the first release in a series of every-Tuesday releases scheduled for this year. Please read our blog entry for full release schedule information.

IP.Board 3.1.3 is a maintenance release that fixes many 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.


Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.1.3 in the client area. You might also read our general upgrading instructions for our software.


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.


Developers

If you are an IP.Board modification developer, there have been several enhancements made to IP.Board to make things easier. Keep an eye on our company blog over the next few days for more information.

A security issue has been discovered in IP.Board 3.1.x that could potentially allow a malicious user to insert JavaScript or other code into your community.

The damage this sort of attack can do is drastically mitigated by IP.Board's use of HTTP-only cookies and other security measures.

As part of our continued dedication to security enhancement, we are releasing a simple patch for IP.Board 3.1.2 to address this issue. If you are running IP.Board versions less than 3.1.2 simply upgrade your software version.

Download Patch

Simply upload the attached file to: admin/sources/classes/bbcode/custom/defaults.php

 312_sept_patch.zip   11.15K   3017 downloads

The main download zip has been updated at the time of this post.

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.

I would love to see a like button on the Status updates in the future!

OK, I know you guys are not RTL native speakers but is RTL that mysterious that you can't tell if a search box is rendered on top of the forum's tabs under IE7? of course, I can report any issues I have to the tracker including those which if you fix for this browser, you gonna end up messing it all up in that browser. I think it's just about time to come up with a more efficient solution. because:

1- You can't just rely on the browser to overwrite properties from, say, ipb_styles with ipb_rtl. It won't always work under IE7

2- It's simply inefficient. Because your including entries that will never be used. But rather got thrown away by the user's browser in favor of those in ipb_rtl.

3- ipb_rtl is sandwiched between to JS includes which would increase loading time and causes the user drop down menu to stay open until the page finish loading.

we need more efficient ways for  handling RTL and to be honest with you no one of us has a real bilingual forum in order to care about how an RTL website would look when switched back to LTR.

thank you

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We're very pleased to announce that IP.Board 3.1.0 and its applications are now available for beta testing! Please read through this announcement for information on where to download and what is available.

What's Available?
The following releases are available:

• IP.Board 3.1.0 Beta 1
• IP.Gallery 3.2.0 Beta 1
• ...

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Invision Power Services is seeking a knowledgeable and industrious individual to join its support team as a part time support technician.

Successful applicants will be responsible for answering general support tickets, including providing customers with information, troubleshooting problems and performing maintenance. You would be expected where appropriate to interact with other technicians and developers to resolve issues.

Requirements:

• Must be familiar with IPS applications.
• Must have a basic knowledge of PHP and SQL.
• Must be able to work remotely.
• Must speak fluent English and possess strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferable, but not required:

• Knowledge of server administration and experience working for a web hosting company.
• Knowledge of additional web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, XML, etc.
• Experience of working in customer support.

Working hours are flexible and salary will be based on knowledge and experience.

To apply or for further information, please send your resume and a cover letter to mwade@invisionpower.com. Please use the subject line "Support Position" and include the hours you are available to work.

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The first public beta release of IP.Board 3.1, applications, and related services is fast approaching. This blog entry will let you know what to expect and what you can do to help us in the process.

We believe, as most other responsible software development companies do, that releasing beta versions is the best way to ensure that the software is...

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With the upcoming release of IP.Board 3.1 we are happy to announce a pre-release promotion so everyone can have the chance to become familiar with IP.Board on your community now and be ready for IP.Board 3.1 as soon as it's available.

Purchase an IP.Board license and any two applications or services and receive a $50 account credit!

Simply purchase your IP.Board license before May 1, 2010 along with at least two qualifying applications or services and receive a credit on your account of $50 good toward any future purchase. You can use this $50 to buy an additional application at a later date or simply save it and it will automatically be applied to future renewal fees.

To qualify be sure to enter coupon code: PRE31CREDIT


Qualifying Applications and Services

• IP.Blog
  
• IP.Gallery
  
• IP.Content
  
• IP.Downloads
  
• MS-SQL Database Driver
  
• Conversion Service

Recently Purchased?

If you recently purchased IP.Board along with at least two of those items in the list above between the date of this announcement and March 15, 2010: simply submit a ticket to account services to request an account credit.

Credit Applications

Anyone who makes a qualifying purchases after the date of this announcement and uses the special coupon code does not need to do anything to get the credit. Please note that credits will not be applied until after May 15, 2010.

Existing Customers

Existing customers can take part in this promotion. It's a great time to buy an additional license to convert that other community you have running or start that new community you always thought about giving a try. Volume discount licenses also qualify. If you have issues ordering or are not prompted for discount code please just submit a ticket to account assistance.

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.

IPS Community Hosting is one of the most popular services we offer. Community Hosting allows people - from novices to experts alike - the ability to quickly deploy a community without having to worry about servers or software. By hosting your community with IPS you can take advantage of a single place for your entire online community presence.

Today we are happy to announce enhancements to all of our community hosting packages!


Online User Limits

Our community hosting packages primary limit are based on the number of concurrent online users on your community at any given moment. We have always felt this is the most fair way to handle the primary limit as it stands to reason: more people online the more resources your community uses.

One of the main concerns both prospective and existing customers have expressed to us is the occasional short-lived increase in traffic. The concern is that, as an example, a community is on the 25 online user package and gets a short-lived spike in traffic to 100 people online. Would their community be shut down? Would they be charged more? Not at all. We understand this happens and would not do that to you. Even so, many were concerned that this could happen to them. We have heard you loud and clear.

Starting today, the online user limits are no longer a maximum limit but instead are an average limit. This means that instead of, in our example, a maximum of 25 online we only look at your 7-day average to be sure it doesn't exceed 25 online. This means no more need to worry about those occasional bursts of traffic. One word can make a huge difference!

Post Storage Limits

We have also taken this opportunity to increase the post storage limits on all packages. As always you have unlimited bandwidth to serve your community and you can always prune old posts if you wish.

Blog, Gallery, and Download Applications

You have always been able to purchase IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads on community hosting packages. Some packages these extras were included and on others there was an extra fee. As of today all packages include these applications for free!

We will be providing account credits to any clients who paid for the add-on service within the last 15 days.

IP.Content and Incoming Email

We are now officially supporting IP.Content on all community hosting packages. There will be an extra fee of $5 per month for those that want IP.Content on their account (fee waived for Advanced packages). Included in this fee is free incoming email and a future as yet unannounced product we are developing will also be included. (The new product will be announced in the coming weeks)

Note that previously some accounts did have IP.Content installed and, as always, we will continue to honor those previously having IP.Content.

IP.Chat

All IP.Board license holders and IPS Community Hosting customers have always enjoyed the free 5 online user package of IP.Chat. Now, all Community Hosting packages will include a free 20 online user IP.Chat package! Those on Advanced community packages will get the 250 online user IP.Chat package at no cost.

Advanced Integration

Those of you enjoying an Advanced package at the 450 or 750 level will have the added benefit of custom single sign on integration services for your community at no cost. This service includes IPS Staff working with your technical team to develop a single sign on authentication bridge between our community platform for your existing user login system so your users need only login one time to enjoy your entire site.



We hope you enjoy these enhancements to IPS Community Hosting!

Please contact sales@invisionpower.com or post in the pre-sales forum if you have any questions before purchasing.



Note: all enhancements only apply to those packages published on our web site. If you are on an older, legacy package your package offerings will not change. You can always switch to a new package type by contacting account services.

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.

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.

I converted from SMF in January (after using it from 2003) and i have to say now that i dont have to look back. All money spent here is well worth it. It took couple of weeks to get used to, but now i love that admin panel etc. I also have issued many tickets and allways got exellent service. Those support people even hack database to fix things, so they really fix them, not just post links to tutorials etc. So thank you and keep up  good work everyone

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First should be name of application (like subdomain) then name of community server.

For explanation: I mean what is between <title> </title>