Please note that in this release we have updated the copyright data in many source files. This means that if you are upgrading through the Admin CP the update will take slightly longer to download and extract than normal.

• Emails may not send correctly, or may send to the wrong person
• Some activity streams may be slow
• Searching tags may be slow
• Some applications may not be available to upgrade when you initially visit the upgrader
• Other general slowness may be noticed

We strongly advise that all 4.1.5 clients upgrade to this release as soon as possible. 

• Memcache issues
• Errors when issuing a warning
• Errors when editing members
• Default sort order in containers not honored
• PHP error when submitting a new file in Downloads

This is a maintenance release to fix common issues reported from 4.1.3. Many issues were fixed and performance enhancements introduced.

• New option to allow Menu Manager items to open in new browser tab
• Image proxy feature can now cache images locally

Update for 4.1.4.1

• Fixes an issue with saving certain group settings
• Fixes an issue with upgrading Commerce

Some changes also include:

• Mass import and exporting of members
• We have started making adjustments to account for MySQL 5.7 changes to GROUP BY
• Worked around a bug in MySQL that was causing core_notifications table to crash
• Warning reasons fixed
• AWS S3 file storage fixed on some hosts
• Adjustment for search minimum length

• Some clients report errors creating a new forum or member group
• Missing profile photos fixed
• More compatibility for auto-upgrader on different zip libraries
• Faster fetching of AWS S3 file sizes

A change has been made to the theme system so themes with out of date templates do not result in a fatal error in most cases. Instead, you will see a notice explaining which templates are out of date and causing problems. You can choose to either fix/revert those specific templates or create a default theme to use temporarily while you work on your custom theme.

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, and made large performance gains. See our blog entry for full information.

Changes and New Features Include:

• New menu structure and drag-and-drop menu manager
  • Ability to have two menu levels
  • Option to create both custom-link menu items and embed preconfigured menus
  • Preview before publishing
  • All menu items support group permissions
• Discovery system that allows for both admin and user created Activity Streams
  • Admin-defined streams always visible to users. Users can edit and save admin streams to create their own, custom copy.
  • The main show-all stream automatically tells you when there is new activity
  • Users can create custom streams
  • User streams can be shared but viewer will only see content based on their permissions
  • Filter options include:
    • All content or specific apps. Some apps support further refinement into categories or content-type.
    • Unread content
    • Ownership
      • Content I posted in
      • Content I started
      • Content by specific members (user can create a list)
    • Content I follow
      • Areas I follow
      • Specific content I follow
      • Posted by members I follow
    •  Time Period
      • Any time
      • Since my last visit
      • Specified number of days
      • Specific date range
  • Activity Streams that reference features not available to Guests such as unread tracking and follow system will auto-hide
• Option to serve images via a local proxy script (useful for SSL sites)
• Option to globally disallow remote images in posts
• Ability to preview email template wrapper
• Version number in AdminCP header
• Selective quoting to highlight a bit of a post and quote just that
• Pages application enhancements
  • Now installs with better default content to help new users
  • Pages menu manager removed in favor of Suite-wide menu manager. Upgrade system will attempt to preserve menu items.
  • Blocks
    • New blocks
    • Members block, Blog comments, Blog List, Download comments, Download reviews, Poll block
    • commentFeed/itemFeed based widgets have date limit (today, 7 days, etc)
    • RecordFeed has a customisable title
    • Calendar widget has a calendar selector to restrict events to specific calendar(s)
    • Better selectors for open/pinned/featured selection
    • External Widgets: Ability to add blocks to other websites via generated iFrame code
  • Pages
    • Larger editor box when editing/creating pages
    • More tags in sidebar when editing/creating pages
    • Custom error page configurable
  • Fields
    • Simple relational field added
    • Ability to place fields above or below record content
    • Simple Name: Value display format added
  • Media Manager
    • Ability to upload media for use within Pages pages, CSS, templates and blocks
    • Compatible with designers mode
  • Templates
    • New templates for when viewing the record homepage as 'articles'
    • Ability to export and import templates to share with other IPS4 communities
• Gallery application enhancements
  • New upload image process
  • Images and movies are submitted to the same upload field
  • Image reviews
• Editor updates
  • Uses div-mode which is much faster and more reliable. Clicking into the editor is now pretty much instant.
  • Auto-linking and member mentions to use new APIs for better reliability
  • Quotes, code boxes, and spoilers can be dragged and moved and there is no more "red line"
  • When cmd/ctrl right-clicking: options to remove or break-out of quotes, edit links and edit image properties
  • Pasting asks if you want to convert to plain text
  • Totally new code plugin with syntax highlighting as you type
  • Option to make enter behave as a new line rather than with spacing
  • Editor is responsive, and ability to have small editor show in areas with less space
  • Member @mentions in posts can now be selected by tab key
• Upgrade process
  • New upgrade process where new files are downloaded and installed automatically when possible.
  • Option to set email address for notifications when an upgrade is available
  • Banner shown to admins on the front end when an upgrade is available. It can be dismissed except for security updates.
• Design and interface enhancements
  • Improve typography for titles
  • Better contrast for user-entered text (posts/comments/etc)
  • Brighten background colors
  • Pre-select text in when share popup is opened
  • Make positive/negative colors consistent across all uses
  • Better hover highlighting of 'blended' links
  • Better styling of mentions in posts (both the username, and the menu to select a user)
  • Better contrast for ipsAreaBackground
  • Flatten the default photo image
  • Checkbox/radio buttons now use custom styling, giving themers more control of their style
  • Improve popular/selected post styles
  • Change popular post icon to heart for consistency with likes
  • Make date a permalink for sharing
  • Improve sidebar contrast and block styles
  • Remove tab bar 'stretch' option and use CSS approach
  • Improve attachments dialog
  • Add more IDs to the user bar template for hook use
  • Add X to close mobile nav menu
  • Upgrade FontAwesome to 4.4
  • Select messages for multiple deleting in messenger
  • Make leaving a conversation clearer
  • Improve warning panel in user profiles
  • Move content status icons (pinned, hidden etc.) to start of row
  • Improve cover photo so it automatically puts it into position mode after uploading
  • Android title bar inherits theme header color
  • Added date uploaded to Downloads version dropdown
• Browser notifications for completed actions (such as large file uploads)
• Option to prompt users to re-consent to Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policy when you change them in AdminCP
• Search
  • The main search box defaults to the app you are currently browsing unless you are on home page where it searches all
  • New default interface
  • Results now highlight and skip to search term in preview
• Retina emoticons
• Ability to uncheck all when adding Moderators in AdminCP
• Instant Notifications
  • Receive notifications via your Browser Notifications of new Personal Messages and anything in the notifications menu
  • Intelligent auto-polling that only polls when needed to reduce server traffic
  • Browser local storage used, to allow for cross-communication if you have multiple tabs open to further reduce resource use
• We now require a minimum PHP version of 5.4 though we do suggest at least 5.6. Version 5.4 will be supported for a short period of time as it is also EOL.

No Longer Included

• Areas such as View New Content, My Content, My Followed Content, Status page and so on are replaced by the new Activity Streams
• Sphinx is no longer supported as an alternative search engine. We are evaluating alternative search technology for a future release.
• Changes to the eAccelerator made it incompatible with IPS Community Suite so support has been removed.

• When unflagging a member as a spammer, if any tasks are still queued to delete or hide the member's content the tasks will be cancelled.  This is useful if you flag a user as a spammer and then immediately change your mind and unflag the member.
• NO_STEP issue during upgrade should now be resolved
• Lists were not rebuilding correctly coming from 3.4.x
• Changed rebuild routines to not use internal embeds as it represents a change from the way content looked pre-upgrade
• There were some infinite redirect issues in some cases when Pages was used, particularly when the gateway file was used
• Fixed an issue related to core_cache and the task not running

Update

Version 4.0.13.1 fixes an issue in a recent Google Chrome update that caused some pages to render poorly.

• Multiredirect is changed to use base64-encoded data as upgrader was failing on certain hosts
• Customizable topic/post feed widgets not storing preferences
• Some reports of issues with insert/embed images into posts
• Email notifications do not work for commerce, which also results in purchases not getting marked paid/approved automatically (this only happened when you had extra cc/copy email addresses specified for emails)

We are working on big improvements to our Search system but, until those are ready, we have made two small changes to make search a bit more pleasant: date will be default sort order and words will be searched using AND logic rather than OR logic.

Update

Version 4.0.12.1 released to address issues with form input validation and security updates.

• Many bug fixes from both tickets and the bug tracker
• Some large performance improvements with focus on fetching posts, activity stream, and view new content.
• Flag as Spammer no longer redirects you to the user's profile. It now just refreshes the page you were on.

Update:

4.0.10.1 released to fix problems some clients were reporting with polls and missing templates.

4.0.10.2 released to fix some common problems reported from clients.

New Features & Settings

• Legacy PayPal gateway to allow for older PayPal Subscriptions to still be recognised.
• Attachment Type Restrictions: You can now choose from three options for file attachments in any post content: No files, Images only (this will actually check to make sure an uploaded file is a valid image) or All files (this is default) - If you choose "All files" you have the option to provide a list of allowed file extensions.
• Merge Concurrent Posts: If a user makes a post or comment and then makes another post or comment on the same item before any other user, the posts will be merged. There is a setting to disable or set the time limit for this to happen. There is a clear, visual indication when a merge happens to avoid confusion to the end user.
• Moderators can click and hold on topic and other item titles to quickly edit.
• New setting to optionally set products in Commerce to have a grace period to remain active for a period of time after expiration.
• New setting to specify domains to exclude from having rel='nofollow' added to links.
• The "+ Create" menu at the top of the page now has an option to create an announcement.
• New button to post a status within the status updates widget
• You can now embed Pages database entries by pasting their link.
• New widgets for blog entry, gallery images and downloads files feeds.
• Widgets displaying content feeds can now be given a custom title.

Other Improvements

• The subject lines for emails sent about new content have been changed slightly so email clients can group them better.
• Some widgets providing duplicate functionality have been merged. For example, "Latest Topics" has been merged into "Topic Feed".
• Announcements now show on every page by default (but can still be removed).
• When upgrading, if you have a large database you are presented with an option to run queries manually. You can now opt to run them anyway.

Disabling Applications

• New ability to disable but not uninstall an app.
• IPS apps that are not up to date will be disabled on upgrade to prevent things breaking.
• The Support system in the AdminCP will now disable non-IPS apps in addition to all plugins as part of its diagnostics. It will also show you a list if what it is disabling to help you find problems.

Notes for translators

• The public-facing navigation tabs now have language strings separate from the application title (this means translators will need to re-translate the application tabs upon upgrade).

Update

4.0.9.1 was released to fix:

• Making a post might not work on older versions of PHP
• Editing permissions for a module may not work
• Issues with widgets after upgrading
• Some clients seeing apps turning offline on upgrade

4.0.9.2 was released to fix:

• Fixes an issue where comments on Blog entries may not work
• Fixes an issue where custom drop down fields in Pages databases may not work

• New mobile pagination
• Large cache sizes fix
• Max width option for video embeds
• Emojis disabled if database is not utf8mb4
• Out of memory errors on larger sites fixed

• Fix for update checker not working
• Search index efficiency improvements
• Guest caching feature can now be used with MySQL (previously required a caching engine like memcached)
• Fix for common problems with queue task locking
• Topic-view loading efficient improvements that should also improve loading on iOS devices

Includes some interface improvements to Gallery, theme comparison tools, and other small enhancements to make things easier to use or understand.

Update

4.0.6.1 was released to fix:

• Improved Spam Monitoring Service handling and extended to apply to registrations from 3rd party login systems
• Widget caches may not update correctly
• Captcha errors may not be displayed properly
• Popular Contributors widget all results to show as position 1
• Top Downloads incorrect data shown
• Thumbnails for movies in Gallery may not show
• Gallery images may not show if set to be stored in a non-web accessible directory
• Renewal invoices Commerce would not generate if set to be generated on the day of expiry
• Charts for reporting Commerce sales and market data would not show alternative chart formats or may display an error if multiple products have the same name
• Third-party applications with Commerce integration may cause errors if not upgraded
• Maximum execution time error when submitting content in some situations
• Images for advertisements may not be correctly relocated when upgrading from 4.0.4
• Custom templates in Pages displaying values for upload fields may not receive the correct URL
• Error when searching members with certain configurations for custom profile fields

Update

4.0.5.1 was release to fix some common problems reported by clients.

• LegacyParser does not convert hyperlinked YouTube URLs that were parsed into videos in 3.x
• Fixing iOS crashing on topic view (and potentially any other comment feed)
• Pages WYSIWYG editor uploading attachments doesn’t work
• Issue causing certain pages to take a very long time to load
• Incoming emails in Commerce can’t handle emails from Outlook
• And a selection of other bug reports that were less critical but still causing trouble