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bfarber Grand Master

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We announced IPB3 long before VB announced their development plans, so I assure you our process and timeline have nothing to do with our competition. :)

We have an extremely strict schedule right now, and we have 4-5 developers working full-time on IPB. We even have some of our support staff helping out on IPB (e.g. with things like language abstraction and rewriting help file contents) where possible. We have deadlines for every step of the process. I can't release much information about specifics, but the general timeframe right now has IPB 3 final out before Dec 31. That's about all I can say. :)

If it's not ready by that time, we won't rush it and release it incomplete. I can assure you of that.

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Kfir Community Regular

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what if you take a picture of 1000 words?



this one is nice:



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I actually counted each word, there are more than 1000 words. :P
Stallyon Explorer

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We announced IPB3 long before VB announced their development plans, so I assure you our process and timeline have nothing to do with our competition. :)



We have an extremely strict schedule right now, and we have 4-5 developers working full-time on IPB. We even have some of our support staff helping out on IPB (e.g. with things like language abstraction and rewriting help file contents) where possible. We have deadlines for every step of the process. I can't release much information about specifics, but the general timeframe right now has IPB 3 [i]final[/i] out before Dec 31. That's about all I can say. :)



If it's not ready by that time, we won't rush it and release it incomplete. I can assure you of that.


I kind of thought you were first, because I only heard about vB 4.0 last week, but IPB 3.0 has been in the pipelines for months and months now. Can't wait for the first beta, though!
TrixieTang Rising Star

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so half of august > sept > oct > nov > Dec ...



Long way to go. But i am sure it will be worth it.



Not long at all, especially considering estimates that have been given for vB's 4.0 seem to be 2+ years. ;)
TestingSomething Rising Star

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I'm not so sure any forum sofytware can have much of anything "earth shattering" that hasn't been done with modifications anymore anyway. Hopefully someone surprises me though. (it;'s a given a lot can be done to optimize though, I am talking only features the end user likes, not performance).

Rikki Grand Master

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Will upgrading from 2.3.5 directly to 3.0.1 once it comes out be more difficult than upgrading from 2.3.5 to 3.0.0?



Well, it's almost impossible to say at this point considering 3.0.1 isn't being developed yet, but the likely procedure would be you'd upgrade from 2.3.5 to 3.0.0 then to 3.0.1. So it'd essentially work out to be the same either way.
Energizer Rising Star

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Well, it's almost impossible to say at this point considering 3.0.1 isn't being developed yet, but the likely procedure would be you'd upgrade from 2.3.5 to 3.0.0 then to 3.0.1. So it'd essentially work out to be the same either way.


It a upgrade from 2.0.0 to 3.0.0 possible?
Luke Mentor

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To answer the upgrade question: Yes.

The upgrade mechanism has always included instructions from previous versions. Basically when you upgrade, it performs each and every change from version to version. You wouldn't go directly from version 2.0 to 3.0, but rather through each and every revision up until 3.0. You wouldn't necessarily have to have 2.0 to go from 1.3 to 3.0, but it would contain the upgrade instructions from 1.3 through 2.0 through 3.0 to go step by step.

Obviously the farther out of date you are, the longer this process will take. That's why it's generally a good idea to stay as close to being up to date as possible.

Rikki Grand Master

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It a upgrade from 2.0.0 to 3.0.0 possible?



Luke is correct as above. Our upgrade process has always been fairly simple - you just upgrade through the versions until you get to the one you want to use. So if you're using 2.0.0, you upgrade to 2.1, then 2.2, then 2.3 then 3.0, essentially.
marklcfc Mentor

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Luke is correct as above. [b]Our upgrade process has always been fairly simple[/b] - you just upgrade through the versions until you get to the one you want to use. So if you're using 2.0.0, you upgrade to 2.1, then 2.2, then 2.3 then 3.0, essentially.


Unless you have a large board, in which case, prepare for quite a lot of changes to the ibf_posts table during your upgrade, make sure you're on a good server else your database will crash. :( :(
Josh Grand Master

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Unless you have a large board, in which case, prepare for quite a lot of changes to the ibf_posts table during your upgrade, make sure you're on a good server else your database will crash. :( :(



We've not made any changes to ibf_posts, we've done everything we can to avoid that :)
EliteKiller Rookie

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I'm more worried about all my current mods not working. And having to get someone to rewrite them and pay them again!



I don't know which mods you use, but I think the most mods thatare usefull will be rewritten for IPB 3.0.


So if you can wait some time you can get most of the mods for free or cheaper. And the architecture of IPB 3 seems to be quite different to IPB 2.0 so it's just natural that the mods won't run under the new release.

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