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We are happy to announce a new promotion specifically for our loyal, existing customers. This promotion will allow you to fill in the gaps in your IPS community suite licenses at a discounted price. New customers can get a discount based on how many IP.Board applications they purchase when they order. However, these discounts have not been available to existing customers who might wish to pick up application licenses they do not have to complete their IPS suite lineup. Anyone with a current, active IP.Board license (Standard/Business/Perpetual/Lifetime) will be able to purchase the following applications at the reduced price listed: [*]IP.Gallery: $64.99 ... $45 [*]IP.Blog: $49.99 ... $35 [*]IP.Downloads: $49.99 ... $35 [*]IP.Content: $49.99 ... $35 That's a total possible savings of $64.96! Do you already have IP.Board and IP.Gallery but always wanted IP.Blog? Now is the time to purchase IP.Blog at a discounted price. Perhaps you have everything except IP.Content and are ready to power your whole web site with the IPS suite? Perfect time to give it a try! To order: login to the client area, click the Complete the Suite link on the client area home page and pick the IP.Board license with which you wish to associate these new purchases. Act fast! This promotion ends June 1, 2010. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/310482-complete-the-suite-promotion/

IPS has a fully featured community suite of products including forums, blogs, image galleries, file management, live chat, and content management. We felt the clear missing piece to this product line was an application that allowed you to monetize and promote your community. We are happy to introduce IP.Commerce to fill that space!... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

IPS has a fully featured community suite of products including forums, blogs, image galleries, file management, live chat, and content management. We felt the clear missing piece to this product line was an application that allowed you to monetize and promote your community. We are happy to introduce IP.Nexus to fill that space!... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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 [*]... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

The first release of our Skin Generator tool was quite successful, and the feedback we got from everyone was very valuable. We've worked on taking that feedback into consideration in our continuing refinement of this tool. While development of this is certainly not done (there's a lot more cool stuff we are working on adding!), we... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

A common problem for all administrators that have skin customisations is having to apply them after each upgrade. This is often time consuming and laborious. One has to pour over a difference report and manually copy and paste the new code into existing templates. A major upgrade such as 3.1 can mean dozens of changed templates. I'm pleased... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

We introduced IP.Chat 1.0 in January of 2010 and our servers have already processed over 6 million chat messages in just a few short months and the rate of adoption of IP.Chat continues to accelerate. Many communities are making good use of the chat software and we hope you are enjoying the IP.Chat product so far. Logs of your chat room are an... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

On Wednesday at the F8 conference, Facebook unveiled their new "Graph" API.... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

The new mobile skin for IP.Board 3.1 is now available for viewing right here on our community! Just visit on a popular mobile device and the skin will load automatically. Shades-20100415-162207.jpg Separate Skin... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/308343-ipboard-31-pre-release-promotion/

Development is under way (and wrapping up, in fact!) on IP.Chat 1.1.0, so we wanted to take a few moments to illustrate what new functionality you can expect to see with the next update of IP.Chat. If you are not already familiar with IP.Chat, we offer a javascript-based chatroom solution that any customer with an active IP.Board license (or... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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 perspective 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. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/308068-ips-community-hosting-enhancements/

A minor flaw has been discovered in IP.Board 3.0.5 that would allow an attacker to view images in any arbitrary directory on the server. Exploiting this flaw would not allow the attacker to upload code or download files, other than images, from your server. Additionally, to utilize the exploit requires that the attacker know the path to the directory the images are stored in. This issue was first reported to our tracker by Cryptovirus. IP.Board 3.0.5 Simply download the attached file, expand and upload the file over the copy on your server 3.0.5_3.31.2010.zip (10.45K) : 12 If you are running an earlier version of IP.Board 3.0 or you would like to manually patch your installation, you may do so by modifying admin/sources/classes/member/memberFunctions.php. Look for the following line of code //$catName = IPSText::alphanumericalClean( $catName ); // Commented out because alphanumericalClean removes spaces Change this line of code to $catName = IPSText::alphanumericalClean( $catName, ' ' ); Save the file and upload to your server. The main download has been updated at the time of this announcement. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/308032-ipboard-305-security-update/

Having a great forum skin is something every forum owner craves. A great skin is a big selling point, as it gives visitors a good first impression, and it colors (pun intended) the overall experience of using that forum. While a great many sites are perfectly happy with the stock IP.Board forum skin, getting something new is often a top priority... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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 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. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/307302-welcome-to-ipboard-31/

IP.Content has many features, and indeed it's quite possible to create a rather useful articles system using the custom databases feature introduced in IP.Content 1.1, however many of our users have been requesting a true "articles" feature since the first release of IP.Content. In typical IPS fashion, we've listened, and you... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

When we developed IP.Board 3, one of the main goals was to centralize searching and simplify it to provide results cleanly and concisely. Since then we have had a lot of emphatic feedback on how to develop the search further and to improve the interface. We've have taken all that feedback on board and completely overhauled search making it... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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 305xss_march10.zip (13.29K) : 92 IP.Board 2.3.6 236xss_march10.zip (15.61K) : 37 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. Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/306221-ipboard-236-and-305-security-update/

IP.Content is an extremely flexible system. While considering the possibilities with IP.Content and feeding content to your external pages, we knew that there were multiple options. [*]Using a database... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

Templates in IP.Content are a useful tool that can save administrators a lot of work managing their site. They are utilized to facilitate displaying database content, and can be utilized to normalize the display of multiple pages through a shared template. We have made a few small tweaks to templates to make them easier to manage and easier to use... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

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 2.3.5 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 2.3.5 and 3.0.5 have been updated. 2.3.6.zip (16.58K) : 0 3.0.5.zip (18.13K) : 0 Quelle: http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/305862-calendar-application-patch-for-ipboard-236-and-305/

While we work to wrap up some of the IP.Content 2.0 changes we'll be discussing in upcoming blog entries, I wanted to take a moment to give everyone a quick update on some of the smaller changes and tweaks we've already implemented in IP.Content 2.0. These small, but useful, tweaks and feature enhancements are sure to allow you to take... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen

In IP.Board 3.0 we introduced a simple reputation feature, allowing users to give positive or negative reputation to a post. While administrators can view who gave reputation through the Admin CP, in IP.Board 3.1 we have introduced a way for all users to view who gave reputation on any given post. To view who gave reputation, you just click on... Kompletten Blogeintrag lesen