The two largest changes in IPS Community Suite 4.1 are the new Menu Manager and Activity Streams. I will do a quick overview of what we were thinking with designing each one and show a nice video to summarize.
I made a video to quickly go over the new Activity Streams and also a bit on the new Menu Manager. I hope you will see just how powerful and flexible they are. You can do everything you…
The next major release for IPS Community Suite 4 is now in the final stages of development. We have added dozens of new features, enhancements to existing features, fixed the majority of 4.0 bugs (bug tracker will be updated soon), and made large performance gains. You can see the full list of items changed in our Release Notes section. Here we will review some of the larger changes and why we did…
Much like last month, August has been all about performance and stability. We are happy to report that most clients are telling us things are running well and we are getting caught up on our support volume. It's nice to be back to much better response times to your questions! So nothing too exciting to report for August but really necessary work being done. That's August... but then there's Septem…
08-07-2015 We are releasing a patch for IP.Board 3.3.x and 3.4.x to address a potential cross-site scripting (XSS) issue, and we are releasing a patch for IP.Nexus 1.5.9 to address an issue where license keys may be exposed to unauthorized users. The IP.Nexus patch also includes an updated SagePay payment gateway, required for all users that use Sagepay integration as of July 31, 2015, as well as …
Everyone at IPS has been working hard to continue development on our new IPS Community Suite 4 platform. We have been getting great feedback from clients and are looking forward to implementing your ideas as we keep moving forward.
Most of July was spent with a focus on stability of version 4.0. As with any new platform there is a lot to learn and address once it gets out into real world use. Sta…
This is the first in a series of monthly blogs IPS will be posting to keep you up to date on what is happening. Just in case you missed it!
New Web Site
We launched our new web site featuring IPS Community Suite 4! Featuring our newest technology has been great for new and old clients alike. Our demo system is now using IPS Community Suite 4 as well so feel free to sign up and give it a try.
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You can now purchase IPS Community Suite 4 or, if you are an existing license holder of IP.Board, you can download the upgrade as part of your license! Be sure to read this important information if you are upgrading from IP.Board 3.
IPS Community in the Cloud clients can simply submit a support request when you are ready to upgrade and we will take care of it for you.
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IP.Board 3.4.8 is now available in the client area
This is a maintenance release to consolidate security updates released since 3.4.7, release additional security updates, and fix some minor bugs impacting many clients. We recommend you upgrade to ensure you have all security updates in place.
You can download in the client area and upgrade as normal.
Support Notes
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04-30-2015 We are releasing a patch for IP.Board 3.3.x and 3.4.x to address three cross-site scripting (XSS) issues. It has been brought to our attention that specifically crafted URLs may allow an attacker to adjust another user's ignored user preferences and private message options. To apply the patch Simply download the attached zip for your IP.Board version and upload the files to your foru…
03-20-2015 We are releasing a patch for IP.Board 3.3.x and 3.4.x to address an SQL injection issue. It has been brought to our attention that specifically crafted URLs may allow an attacker to trigger an SQL error with specific configurations. To apply the patch Simply download the attached zip for your IP.Board version and upload the files to your forum server. IP.Board 3.4.x: patch312201…
We are releasing a patch for IP.Board 3.3.x and 3.4.x to address two CSRF issues and one XSS issue. It has been brought to our attention that a cross site request forgery issue exists with gravatar images that can allow a potential attacker to cause a user to store a gravatar profile photo that was not desired. Further, during internal reviews of the issue we discovered another CSRF issue that c…
Release Candidate of IPS Community Suite 4.0.0 now Available This means we have left the beta stage where things are unsupported and known to be broken and enter the period between that and final. The Release Candidate phase allows us to partially support the Suite without committing our full resources to it. This step also means that there will still be some bugs in the system but they should not…
