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We are pleased to announce Invision Power Board 3.0.2 has been released.

This is the second maintenance release for IP.Board 3 and addresses various bugs and adds in some enhancements to existing features. Also, IP.Blog, IP.Gallery, and IP.Downloads have received a maintenance update.

Major Changes Since 3.0.1

Among many dozens of smaller bugs fixed, the following large changes and fixes have been made in the 3.0.2 release:

• Improved search and member list performance
• Date filter options for Active Content page
• Many improvements for Sphinx searching (i.e. ability to filter by forum, ability to search titles only, ability to group posts as topics, plugin functionality for modifying the query, and misc bug fixes)
• Ability to hide an application’s tab on the front end, while still allowing it to be publicly accessible
• Improved IP address lookup tool can now support add-on applications
• Portal option to not pin pinned topics for articles
• Added link to user profile when editing a member in ACP
• Added display of time remaining for suspended members when editing a member in ACP
• Spam Monitoring Service support
• Ability to control image quality for Gallery images (jpg/png only)
• PHP version 5.3 is now supported in IP.Board except for OpenID login method. We are awaiting updates from OpenID vendors.

Downloading

You can download IP.Board 3.0.2 and any applications you have an active license for in the client area. As always, make a backup of your community before proceeding.

Spam Monitoring Service

To retrieve your key, login to your client area and go to your purchases. You will see an option to create a spam service key. Place that key in the Spam Service settings in your IP.Board 3.0.2 AdminCP.

Subscriptions Manager

The first Release Candidate of Subscriptions Manager is now available in the client area. While not the final version, feedback has been good and several clients are using it on their live site. However, we do of course suggest you wait until the final version before using it live.

MS-SQL Database Driver

The MS-SQL database driver is now available for new installations of IP.Board 3. Upgrade capability from IP.Board 2 will be available within the next two weeks.

Spam Monitoring Service: Legacy License Holders

As the Spam Monitoring Service incurs additional operating costs for IPS to operate it is only available to IPS Hosting customers plus IP.Board Standard, IP.Board Business, and Community Suite license holders. Those holding old Lifetime or Perpetual licenses cannot participate in this service as that license type only includes technical support and access to product upgrades – not our new advanced services – since those services were not even conceived several years ago when those license types were offered. Of course the new spam service is our only new advanced service but we do have more planned and must begin the transition process now.

To allow those holding Lifetime or Perpetual licenses to switch to a Standard license while still recognizing their long-standing status we will offer the following methods to switch:

Lifetime License: Your first renewal date will be a full year from the date you request to switch. This means if you requested the change August 15, 2009 you would not be invoiced for any renewal charges until August 15, 2010.

Perpetual License: Your first renewal date would be 6 months from the time of your then-current renewal date. This means that if your Perpetual license support was set to expire December 19, 2009 then your new Standard license renewal would be June 19, 2010.

We also recognize that some clients understand that the spam service (and future advanced services) do require additional operating expenditures for IPS but they prefer to keep their current license type. For those clients, you can choose to keep your current Perpetual or Lifetime license but add on a service enhancement package to that license for $50 per year. For Perpetual license holders this would replace the current $30 renewal you have in place.

Finally, it is certainly not required that any Lifetime or Perpetual license holder switch to a Standard license or otherwise pay any additional fees. If you are not interested in the spam service or wish to wait until we have more advanced services in the future you can certainly do so. IPS will continue to honor your product upgrade and technical support services under the Lifetime and Perpetual licenses as we have for many years now.

Please submit a ticket if you have any questions or wish to make a change.

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