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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Content 2.3.1! IP.Content is our community content management platform for IP.Board allowing you to create content for your site ranging from a simple portal to a full website with custom databases and more - the possibilities are endless! This release resolves issues reported since the release of IP.Content 2.3.0. Thank you to our team of Beta and QA testers who have made this release possible. We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases. Demo You can try our free demo to see IP.Content in action for yourself. Purchasing You can purchase IP.Content in your client area by clicking the 'New Purchase' button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Content along with IP.Board. If you are an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Content comes with all packages! If you have already purchased IP.Content, you can download this update in your client area. Requirements / Notes IP.Content 2.3.1 requires IP.Board version 3.3.x Installing / Upgrading For further assistance on installing IP.Content please refer to this document and for upgrading please refer to this document Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Calendar 3.3.0! IP.Calendar is our calendar application available freely to all IP.Board clients. This release of IP.Calendar resolves issues reported since 3.2.2 and includes certain compatibility updates to better integrate with IP.Board 3.3.0. We welcome feedback on this or any other release in the relevant feedback forum including suggestions for future releases. Demo You can try our free demo to see IP.Calendar in action for yourself. Purchasing IP.Calendar is available for free to all IP.Board license holders. IP.Calendar is included with all IPS Community Hosting accounts. Requirements / Notes IP.Calendar 3.3.0 requires IP.Board version 3.3.x. Installing / Upgrading To install IP.Calendar, you will need to extract the files contained in the zip you will download from the client center, upload those files to your IP.Board root directory (preserving directory structure), and then initiate the application installation routine from your Admin Control Panel under System tab -> Applications and Modules. To upgrade to the latest version of IP.Calendar, you will need to extract the zip and upload the files as you would to install, and then visit your Admin Control Panel, which will in turn redirect you to the upgrader. Please submit a ticket in your client area if you require assistance installing or upgrading IP.Calendar. View the full article

While working toward the release of IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0, the development team took some time to refresh our developer documentation, aiming to provide useful information for our third party developers in order to help them update their work as necessary. We are still very much working on expanding and updating the developer documentation we... View the full article View the full article

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0! Everyone at IPS is very proud of IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0 updates. We have worked hard to create a quality, modern community platform and the feedback from our clients has been tremendous. We are releasing the following new software: IP.Board 3.3.0 Fully featured community platform including forums, members profiles, calendar, status system, integration, and much, much more. IP.Content 2.3.0 Content management for your community - run a full web site or a simple community portal. The possibilities are endless. Release Notes Though IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0 have been tested for months, you never know what you are going to get when thousands of people start using it overnight. Therefore: now that IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0 will be used by a much larger audience we will probably come across as yet undiscovered bugs. You can expect maintenance releases as we work quickly to address any issues reported. [*]We are now providing technical support and services for IP.Board 3.3.0 and IP.Content 2.3.0. As you might imagine, many thousands of clients will be asking for help so please note that if you request upgrade or install assistance that there could be a delay up to a few days to process that request. [*]You may wish to take advantage of the automatic upload service in the client area to help upgrade your version. [*]We may reply to this topic with hot-fix patches or notes if any critical issues come up so please use the "Follow this Topic" feature to get notified. [*]If you experience any problems, before submitting a ticket, please disable all third party applications and hooks. [*]You may wish to check our knowledge base for common upgrade issues. What's new in IP.Board 3.3 In addition to this list there are countless other minor improvements and changes based on client feedback too numerous to mention. IP.Board 3.3 was all about polish so we hope you enjoy it. Archive System: New feature to archive off topics to remove post table overhead Warning System: New more flexible feature replaces old warning system SEO Update: 'Dead end' links, unfriendly error pages, metadata tags, bounce rates SEO Update: Banned users SEO Update: Duplicate title tags, profile tabs, skin and language selectors, direct links to posts SEO Update: Microformat and Schema Updates SEO Update: Changes to tags, guests and unread links, title tags, soft 404s and schema additions for ratings Performance Updates: Improving topic markers, today's top posters, post table access Auto-share on posting: Tweet and share to Facebook when creating a topic Reputation Updates: Like/reputation updates on a user's profile Miscellaneous Updates: Log-in autosave, emoticons in signatures, log in as a member, duplicate forum, system schedular as a CRON and more. Applications and Hook Updates: Application ordering, hook list update, hook settings Moderation Tools Updates: Hide/Delete/Soft Delete consolidation and interface updates What's new in IP.Content 2.3 AdminCP Interface Part 1 & Admin CP Interface Part 2: Significant ACP interface changes to improve consistency, usability, clarity and approachability SEO Improvements: Duplication, header code, meta tag, page title and on-page HTML improvements, as well as a new URL memory system Commenting & Other Enhancements: Improvements to commenting, quick navigation panel integration, reporting, reputation support and other article/database enhancements New Features: Currently viewing plugin block and shared media field for databases Tagging: Tag support implemented and a new tag cloud plugin block made available Navigation Bar: Full tab control for the primary navigation bar Relational Fields: Type-ahead relational fields and automatic cross-linking of related content Nexus: Nexus package, purchase, support request, shipping, invoices and transaction feeds, and donation plugin block Block Templates: New block templates functionality allowing developers to more easily share blocks and quality block templates Odds & Ends: Updated default installation, ModCP integration, improved ACP logging, teaser paragraph article field and interface improvements View the full article

It has come to our attention that a XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attack is possible under specific circumstances when editing a post another member has made. This issue only exists in IP.Board 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.2.2 and 3.2.3. We recommend that everyone using these versions apply this simple two file patch. Simply download the zip, expand it on your computer and upload the files to the relevant folders on your server. The directory structure is maintained in the zip so you will have no issues finding the files. If you need assistance, please contact technical support. Patching 3.2.3 march-editor-patch_3_2.zip 30.13K 1061 downloads Patching 3.2.0-3.2.2 Please upgrade to 3.2.3. Please note, this zip file is not compatible with 3.2.2, 3.2.1 or 3.2.0. Note: The main download zip has been updated . View the full article

Following on our previous blog entry about our enhancements to the IPS Community here at http://community.invisionpower.com ...A few more things to note that you may be interested in... View the full article View the full article

We are well into beta testing for IP.Board 3.3 and IP.Content 2.3 and so far it's going very well. Practically no bugs are being reported and often times our staff has literally 0 open general bugs in our bug tracker. That is quite and accomplishment and something of which we are very proud!If you are an IPS Client and are comfortable beta testing... View the full article View the full article

We are happy to announce that we have made a few changes to enhance the community experience here on the IPS Community. Access to Support Forums Based on client feedback and the mass of good will from many helpful clients who want to assist others, we have opened up access to our support forums to both current, active license holders and those that... View the full article View the full article

We released IP.Board 3.3.0 as beta yesterday to our clients and I wanted to just round-up some of the very latest SEO changes we've made this week. We've invested a lot of effort into making sensible non-invasive changes to IP.Board to encourage search engines to spider pages we want them to spider and to remove extraneous links, potential crawler... View the full article View the full article

It has come to our attention that a XSS (Cross Site Scripting) attack is possible within the Admin CP. The javascript is only executed when viewing the detailed pop-up of a specific failed admin log in. This issue exists in all IP.Board 3 versions. We recommend that everyone using these versions apply this simple one file patch. Simply download the zip for your IP.Board version, expand the zip on your computer and upload the file to the relevant folder on your server. The directory structure is maintained in the zip so you will have no issues finding the file. If you need assistance, please contact technical support. IP.Board 3.2.x feb_3_2_x.zip 2.72K 4109 downloads IP.Board 3.1.x feb-3_1_x.zip 2.76K 1015 downloads IP.Board 3.0.x feb-3_0_x.zip 2.76K 323 downloads If you are running a version of IP.Board older than those listed we highly recommend you upgrade to the latest, supported version as it will include this and other fixes. View the full article