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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 4.0.0!

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 is the latest version of our popular Gallery application. It has been completely rewritten to modernize the interface and to add better functionality. Everyone here at IPS is very excited at this new release and hope our customers will enjoy the update to this popular application.

Over the course of development, we've kept a blog on its development and we invite you to review the entries:

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 Manifesto
IP.Gallery 4.0 is a huge upgrade; the single biggest upgrade it has ever seen. We're blasting out the cobwebs and introducing a slick new interface that never loses sight of what a Gallery should be. We're simplifying permissions and accessibility to remove the clutter and confusion. We want you to fall in love with Gallery again.

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 Structural Changes
I want to completely re-focus Gallery and make the media the center of the application. I want users to view the images without being so concerned as to where they belong. I want to focus on organic discovery over being forced to browse pages of user albums or pages of categories.

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 View Image Page Tour
I have taken a short video to explain some of the larger changes and features of this page for Gallery 4.

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 Uploading Tour
Arguably the most crucial part of the gallery system is the upload system. A cumbersome and slow upload system deters people from uploading new images.

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 Interface Tour
I wanted to take a moment to run through the interface and explain a little more about the album types we have in IP.Gallery now.

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 Media Uploading Tour
You can upload videos alongside normal photos and quickly add a thumbnail to the video. If you upload a m4v, certain mov files and flv files, these are played in a Flash video player much like YouTube.

IP.Gallery 4.0.0 Mobile Skin
The mobile theme is lightweight as expected and makes good use of the small cropped thumbs as well as the new 'small' image that is created. This saves a lot of bandwidth which will be a huge relief to those that don't have a good 3G signal.


Release Notes

• If you are using IP.Content blocks that use Gallery data, please wait until IP.Gallery 4.0.1 for the updated IP.Content integration
  
• We have had several beta releases for testing and are confident any major issues have been addressed. However, as this is the first supported release that will be used by thousands of people, there could be as yet undiscovered issues. Please report issues in the bug tracker.
  
• Important technical support note: During the launch of a new products, and the great interest created, support response times (especially for install or upgrade requests) may be delayed. We appreciate your understanding during the launch time. If your community is critical in nature and even the slightest delay in support services would impact you then you may wish to wait until a future version to use IP.Gallery.
  
• IP.Gallery requires IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
  
• MSSQL driver files are still in development and not available with IP.Gallery 4.0.0
  
• If your server uses ImageMagick (rather than GD) for image manipulation please wait for IP.Gallery 4.0.1.

Upgrading
IP.Gallery 4.0.0 has a built in upgrade system to upgrade your current IP.Gallery. However, please understand that this is a very large update and the interface has changed completely. We strongly recommend that you read the blog entries or test the Gallery installation on this site to ensure that all the functionality you need is available and the new interface suits your needs. If you have a gallery-centric site you may wish to wait for a future version. Please use the feedback forum for any discussion on the new functionality.

Version 4.0.1 Coming Soon

IPS is dedicated to promptly fixing any reported issues and will do so with the release of IP.Gallery version 4.0.1 very soon.

As mentioned in the release notes: because this is the first widely-distributed release there will be as yet undiscovered issues. You can expect several maintenance releases over the next several weeks. 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 updates.

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.2.1 and IP.Gallery 4.0.1!

Please see below for the release notes for each of these maintenance releases.

IP.Nexus 1.2.1

This is a maintenance release for our new IP.Nexus application. IP.Nexus is designed to help you earn money from your community both directly and indirectly. Direct options include features such as payment processing and shopping carts whereas indirect methods may be banner tracking and donations.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Nexus right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Nexus right along with IP.Board.

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Nexus 1.2 in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Nexus, you can download it in your client area.

Server Requirements

As IP.Nexus deals with financial transactions we wish to do everything we can to ensure the security of your community and business. To further this goal, IP.Nexus source will be encoded using Zend Guard and Ioncube. This means that your server will need the appropriate PHP capabilities installed to run IP.Nexus. You can download our system requirements script which will check your server for Zend Guard encoding support. We also support Ioncube encoding.


Installing & Upgrading

Installation Instructions
Upgrade Instructions
IP.Nexus Getting Started Guide

If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.


Release Notes

• IP.Nexus requires at least IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
  
• MSSQL driver files for this release are still in development.
  
• When installing IP.Nexus you must set your FTP client to upload files in binary mode. If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.

IP.Gallery 4.0.1

IP.Gallery is our community media sharing platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to create and maintain photo and video albums. This is a maintenance release which resolves many issues faced by some customers.

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Gallery right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Gallery right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Gallery comes with all packages!

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Gallery in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Gallery, you can download it in your client area.


Release Notes

• IP.Gallery requires IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
  
• MSSQL driver files for this release are still in development.

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 4.0.2!

IP.Gallery is our community media sharing platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to create and maintain photo and video albums. This is a maintenance release which resolves many issues faced by some customers.

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Gallery right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Gallery right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Gallery comes with all packages!

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Gallery in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Gallery, you can download it in your client area.


Release Notes

• IP.Gallery requires IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
• MSSQL driver files are still in development

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IP.Board 3.1.4 JavaScript Patch for Internet Explorer 9 Compatibility

With the recent release of Internet Explorer 9, JavaScript compatibility issues have been reported with IP.Board 3.1. These issues stem from the fact that IP.Board utilizes Prototype, a popular JavaScript library, and the latest stable release of Prototype at the time of 3.1.4's release was version 1.6. Prototype version 1.7 has since been released to include compatibility with Internet Explorer 9.

Today we are releasing a patch for IP.Board 3.1.4 that includes the updated Prototype library (version 1.7) so that our clients may update their communities immediately. While IE9 is still new, adoption of the latest release of this popular browser is expected to grow quickly, and we want to ensure that our software works in as many commonly-used browsers as possible.


Updating your Community

As of the time of this announcement, the main IP.Board 3.1.4 download in your client area has been updated. If you download 3.1.4 after this announcement, your download will include the patch. You may optionally download the full 3.1.4 release and upload it to your community to ensure it is fully up to date at any time.

To patch your community manually, follow these simple steps:

• Download the patch zip file attached to this announcement
• Extract the zip file locally on your computer
• Upload the contents of this zip file to your server, preserving directory structure (the /public folder should overwrite the /public folder on your server where IP.Board is located)

If you require assistance or have any questions, please feel free to submit a ticket.

• Be aware that as this patch only involves updating a single JavaScript file, you and your users may need to clear your browser cache for the changes to take effect.
• We believe this patch will work on any versions of IP.Board 3.1.x but has only been tested on version 3.1.4.

Attached File(s)

• patch_board3_1_4_prototype17.zip (37.58K)
  Number of downloads: 3566

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.2.2!

This is a new release for our IP.Nexus application. IP.Nexus is designed to help you earn money from your community both directly and indirectly. Direct options include features such as payment processing and shopping carts whereas indirect methods may be banner tracking and donations.


New Features

• When multiple IP.Downloads files are associated with a purchase, downloads links will be presented as a dropdown rather than individual buttons to prevent page distortion.
• Hosting accounts now display the account domain in brackets on the purchase listing in the client area.
• When selecting a purchase to associate a support ticket with, if the purchase has a sticky custom field, it's value will be shown in brackets. Hosting accounts will also show the domain name in brackets. The list will also now display purchase associations in a hierarchal format.
• When printing an invoice, the status of the invoice is now shown.
• If a customer has a credit card saved on file (using Authorize.Net CIM) this will be indicated and can be removed in the client area.
• Alternate contacts can now be added using an Email address, in addition to username.
• When viewing an invoice in the client area, renewal items are now clickable, taking the user to purchase the renewal is for.
• When viewing a purchase in the client area, a warning message will now be displayed if that purchase has a pending renewal invoice.
• When adding/editing a package in the Admin CP, selecting packages that package can be associated with, and selecting a package for discount setups, will now display packages in a hierarchal format.

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Nexus right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Nexus right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, the IP.Nexus features are coming soon to select packages (more information will be posted regarding IP.Nexus on hosting).

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Nexus 1.2 in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Nexus, you can download it in your client area.




Server Requirements

As IP.Nexus deals with financial transactions we wish to do everything we can to ensure the security of your community and business. To further this goal, IP.Nexus source will be encoded using Zend Guard and Ioncube. This means that your server will need the appropriate PHP capabilities installed to run IP.Nexus. You can download our system requirements script which will check your server for Zend Guard encoding support. We also support Ioncube encoding.


Installing & Upgrading

Installation Instructions
Upgrade Instructions
IP.Nexus Getting Started Guide

If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.




Release Notes

• IP.Nexus requires at least IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
• When installing IP.Nexus you must set your FTP client to upload files in binary mode. If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.1.3!

This is a maintenance release for our IP.Nexus application. IP.Nexus is designed to help you earn money from your community both directly and indirectly. Direct options include features such as payment processing and shopping carts whereas indirect methods may be banner tracking and donations.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Nexus right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Nexus right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, the IP.Nexus features are coming soon to select packages (more information will be posted regarding IP.Nexus on hosting).

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Nexus 1.1 in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Nexus, you can download it in your client area.


Server Requirements

As IP.Nexus deals with financial transactions we wish to do everything we can to ensure the security of your community and business. To further this goal, IP.Nexus source will be encoded using Zend Guard and Ioncube. This means that your server will need the appropriate PHP capabilities installed to run IP.Nexus. You can download our system requirements script which will check your server for Zend Guard encoding support. We also support Ioncube encoding.


Installing & Upgrading

Installation Instructions
Upgrade Instructions
IP.Nexus Getting Started Guide

If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.


Release Notes

• IP.Nexus requires at least IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
  
• When installing IP.Nexus you must set your FTP client to upload files in binary mode. If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.

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A minor security issue has been discovered within the forum password system that could allow exposure of topic titles in password-protected forums. This issue does not allow the topics to be viewed and only affects forums that are password protected.

We have released a simple patch for this issue. To apply, simply download the correct zip file and upload the file(s) over the ones on your server. There is no need to rebuild or reset any templates or language packs. Customers with active support are welcome to ask technical support for assistance if required.

IP.Board 3.0.x
patch-feb-3.0.zip (10.87K)
Number of downloads: 315

IP.Board 3.1.4
patch-feb-3.1.zip (17.9K)
Number of downloads: 1137

In addition to the security patch described above, the IP.Board 3.1.4 patch also includes an update to our mobile API designed to resolve some issues, provide better integration for our iPhone application and to provide IP.Gallery 4.0 support alongside IP.Gallery 3.2.x.

The main download zips have been updated at the time of this post so if you have downloaded after the date of this message you do not need to apply this patch.

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the update of our iPhone and iPad app is now available!

You can download the update to our iPhone / iPad app in the Apple App Store. This update fixes bugs reported in previous versions. Please be sure to let us know if you experience any issues.

About the iPhone and iPad app for IP.Board

Our iOS app for IP.Board allows you and your members to easily login, browse, and post to your IP.Board community anywhere they are. The app remembers their login, has quick links to often used features, and allows your members to upload images to IP.Gallery, and even has Push notifications for new activity to encourage your members to come back to your community.

The app is free for anyone to download from the App Store and members can add the logins to all the various IP.Board-powered communities they visit to easily browse and keep up with all their conversations. Push notification service requires an active IP.Board license.



Future Improvements

This release only contains bug fixes as we wanted to get things working better before getting into new features. Upcoming improvements in the mobile space include further improvements to our iOS app, Android app, and white-label services. Here is a quick overview:

iOS

We will be further improving the stability and speed of the app. Future versions of IP.Board will also add support for other areas like IP.Gallery and IP.Blog viewing and posting blog entries on your mobile device. The iPad experience is also a big area of focus as everyone with an iPad knows how fun it is browsing communities.

Android

We know it's been promised for some time but work on the Android app is now in progress. We hope to have an update on this before IP.Board 3.2 is released!

White-label Service

We are happy to be able to announce that the white-label service is now available for our mobile apps. This service will allow you to create a privately branded version of our apps exclusively for use on your community. Please be sure to read our site for full details!

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Nexus 1.2.0 and IP.Blog 2.3.2!

Please see below for the release notes for each of these releases.

IP.Nexus 1.2.0

This is the second updated release for our new IP.Nexus application. IP.Nexus is designed to help you earn money from your community both directly and indirectly. Direct options include features such as payment processing and shopping carts whereas indirect methods may be banner tracking and donations.


New Features

• License Keys
• Advertisements In Store
• cPanel Integration
• Payment Improvements & Anti-Fraud Protection
• Custom Customer Fields
• Package Updater
• Custom Packages Improvements
• Miscellaneous Enhancements

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Nexus right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Nexus right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, the IP.Nexus features are coming soon to select packages (more information will be posted regarding IP.Nexus on hosting).

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Nexus 1.2 in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Nexus, you can download it in your client area.




Server Requirements

As IP.Nexus deals with financial transactions we wish to do everything we can to ensure the security of your community and business. To further this goal, IP.Nexus source will be encoded using Zend Guard and Ioncube. This means that your server will need the appropriate PHP capabilities installed to run IP.Nexus. You can download our system requirements script which will check your server for Zend Guard encoding support. We also support Ioncube encoding.


Installing & Upgrading

Installation Instructions
Upgrade Instructions
IP.Nexus Getting Started Guide

If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.




Release Notes

• IP.Nexus requires at least IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
• When installing IP.Nexus you must set your FTP client to upload files in binary mode. If you would prefer one of our technicians to handle the installation for you - please send in a support ticket.

IP.Blog 2.3.2

IP.Blog is our community blogging platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to run their blogs within your community.

This maintenance release contains several bug fixes and adds compatibility with our soon to be released IP.Gallery 4.0 update.


Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Blog right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Blog right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Blog comes with all packages!

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Blog in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Blog, you can download it in your client area.


Release Notes

• IP.Blog requires IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.

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Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce enhancements to its community hosting services!

IPS Community Hosting is one of our most popular services. It offers an inexpensive way for anyone to quickly launch a community without any knowledge of servers and hosting. We automatically install your community and will apply software upgrades at your request at no additional charge. Today we are happy to enhance our services!

Disk Space

We are increasing disk space on all of our standard community hosting plans as follows:

Starter 5: 150 to 200 MB
Basic 10: 300 to 350 MB
Standard 25: 400 to 500 MB
Plus 40: 600 to 800 MB
Super 65: 800 to 1 GB

These changes will be applied automatically to all existing clients on those plans.

Post Limits

We are pleased to announce that the post limits on all packages have now been removed! All packages now feature unmetered database storage.

Included Software

Currently, if you wish to have IP.Content or IP.Nexus there is a $5 per month extra fee on qualifying packages. We are now happy to announce that as of today all community hosting packages will now include IP.Content at no extra charge. Also, IP.Nexus will now be available on Plus 40 and Super 65 at no additional charge!


We hope you enjoy these enhancements to our community hosting services and we look forward to helping your community grow!





Information for existing clients

If you are current community hosting client, the following information may be important to you. Please note your package type and situation:

Starter 5, Basic 10, Standard 25: If you wish to have IP.Content installed, please submit a support ticket request. Note that we expect a high volume of install requests so your patience on the install is appreciated.

If you are paying for $5 add-on: The $5 package will be removed and you will no longer receive invoices for this package.

A legacy plan no longer offered on our web site: Nothing will change. Your old service levels will be maintained.

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How is the ip. blog? Anyone have any experience? I've been looking to blog on my ipboard somehow but don't really want to pay for it when I can get wordpress.

 

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 4.0.3!

IP.Gallery is our community media sharing platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to create and maintain photo and video albums.

This maintenance release adds many popular features including:

• Warning in the ACP if watermarking image path is not correct and fixed an issue with watermarking path in general not working if it contains the character \
• Re-added delete album option in the userCP albums list
• Fixed member albums being still able to be set as root albums in the ACP
• Updated flash player (flowplayer) from 2.3.4 to 2.3.7
• Added MPG, MPEG and MKV as media formats
• Now the original image saved when watermarking has a unique name so members can't retrieve it by adding the orig_ prefix in the image name
• Original image is now deleted together with the other images (small, medium, large, thumbnail)
• Moderation logs are now saved for: delete album, delete/move images, approve/unapprove images
• Comments class: fixed several bugs with it for 'normal members' not being able to edit delete
• Ability to sort albums (per album basis) in both ACP and front end
• Ability to use 'detail' page (larger thumbs) as the default album page (per album basis) in both ACP and front end
• Detail page updated to include: Like box, ratings, image author, album edit, delete and slideshow links.
• Uploading into a child album now updates the cover images of all global parents.
• Container albums show the upload button and the upload form suggests they create a new album, new album dialog has container album selected as parent
• Watermark has been re-added with a per-album option
• Added a script to convert old favorites and subscription to the new 'like' system
• Member albums now REQUIRE a global album or another album as parent, you can't create them as 'root' albums anymore
• The upgrade script will move any albums like that in a temporary global album
• Pagination added to 'recent images' block when viewing all member's albums. It also shows all user's images, not just the ones in their own albums.
• Pagination added to 'recently updated albums' block on the home page.
• Over 80 bug fixes

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Gallery right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Gallery right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Gallery comes with all packages!

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Gallery in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Gallery, you can download it in your client area.


Release Notes

• IP.Gallery requires IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
• MSSQL driver files are still in development

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Never was a fan of it, but they seem to be doing good with it.

 

I haven't ever used much of Invision Powers scripts other than the main script itself. However like you stated Kaiser it's great to see them constantly improving with it.

 

Invision Power Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the release of IP.Gallery 4.0.4 and IP.SEO 1.3.2!

Please see below for the release notes for each of these releases.

IP.Gallery 4.0.4

IP.Gallery is our community media sharing platform for IP.Board allowing you and your members to create and maintain photo and video albums.

This maintenance release fixes issues and bugs reported in 4.0.3.

Purchasing

You can purchase IP.Gallery right in your client area by clicking the green New Purchase button in the upper right corner. New clients can purchase IP.Gallery right along with IP.Board. If you an IPS Community Hosting client, IP.Gallery comes with all packages!

Don't forget to try our free demo to see IP.Gallery in action for yourself.

If you have already purchased IP.Gallery, you can download it in your client area.


Release Notes

• IP.Gallery requires IP.Board 3.1.4 and will not install on prior versions.
• MSSQL driver files are still in development

IP.SEO 1.3.2

IP.SEO for IP.Board aims to provide additional search engine optimization features and tools to our software. IP.Board itself already has many built-in SEO related features and this app builds on those features to extend the capabilities for those who has an interest in SEO. In addition to new capabilities, IP.SEO also looks at your configuration and gives you advice on the best way to ensure that search engines can easily index your community content and properly rank that content.

This maintenance release fixes issues and bugs reported in previous versions.

Active IP.Board license holders (and IPS Community Hosting clients) can download the IPS Marketplace app in the IPS Marketplace. Just login with the same email and password you use for the IPS client area.

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I would get IP.SEO if I had IPB.

 

I just installed IP.SEO and started to play around with it. Still trying to work on a sitemap issue. Just need to find the time to finish the setup on it. Don't really have a use for Gallery right now.

 

I find the gallery useless.. and yea good job, I would get it as well. Also dont forget to submit your sitemap to Google's webmaster tools. Faster and better indexing and optimization for your forum.

 

Yeah I will. Once I get a chance that is. Busy, busy right now!

 

Aren't we all?