It’s been a while since I’ve talked about Invision Power Board 2.2 so I figured it was time for an update.
First off, there’s a fairly sizeable new feature that we’re really pleased with. I’m not going to say what it is or post cool screen-shots because we want to keep this underwraps until we’re ready for the first public beta. We don’t mind sharing our forthcoming features but we don’t want to see this one appearing anywhere else first as I’m fairly confident that our competition will adopt this new feature for their own products.
IPB is currently undergoing a security audit to ensure that our new security features make the grade and the base code is solid. It’s progressing well and although no specific vulnerabilities have been discovered we’ve had some good advise on ‘hardening’ the code in several specific areas which we’ve taken onboard and tweaked the code to suit. The new ‘parse_incoming’ function will greatly reduce the threat of any file traversal issues and stop any possible preg_replace PHP code injections (especially when using preg_replace’s “eval” mode).
Finally, there have been some template tweaks here and there to improve the layout and functionality. There’s nothing too dramatic and as usual we’ll be providing a diff report for upgraders so they can manually update their custom skins if they wish.
Although we don’t have a firm estimate for our first public beta, it shouldn’t be *that* far off…
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September 11, 2006 at 5:35 pm
Philip Withnall
Sounds good.
September 11, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Mesmer
I’m getting that ‘I want to upgrade’ itch again
September 11, 2006 at 9:46 pm
Grant Burnes
That sounds good. I figured that you guys would eventually do some major security updates because we wouldn’t want you to patch forever
Good work Matt.
September 11, 2006 at 10:35 pm
MetalFrog
Sweetness. B)
September 11, 2006 at 11:36 pm
Sully
Not bad at all.
Sounds good to hear
September 12, 2006 at 1:16 am
Brandon
That sounds good, Matt.
September 12, 2006 at 5:20 am
NaFigator
(sorry my bad english)
Matt, this all good, but there is a one thing, which is terrible. IPB 2.1 have a very big CSS and forum is loading so slow and browsers working with forum so slow too. Can your designers do more smaller CSS for default skin as an example?..
September 12, 2006 at 8:58 am
William Hook
It’s not slow. It’s fast. Get broadband.
September 12, 2006 at 9:13 am
Pete
A better sugegstion would be to enable the option in the ACP to cache the CSS output to a file.
That would speed things up a bit for NaFigator.
Matt - this all sounds good, and I’d like to see a bug-free release and this new security centre sounds like it’s going to be very useful, especially since with 2.1 we’re getting at least three spam signups a day
September 12, 2006 at 9:40 am
Matt
> A better sugegstion would be to enable the option in the ACP to cache the CSS output to a file.
IPB has been doing that since IPB 1.3. View the HTML source on our corporate forums.
September 12, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Wilko
Hmm, I think he was suggesting NaFigator use the option in the ACP to cache to css to speed it up for him, not that IPB needs it.
September 12, 2006 at 11:10 pm
Motley / Venice
I’m not paying $30 for another year of support until 2.2 comes so… Do hurry, dear Mecham
September 13, 2006 at 2:08 am
Andrew J Taylor
I can’t wait to try first public beta of 2.2! I am going try out Account Locking Feature.
September 13, 2006 at 6:32 am
NaFigator
I wrote not about cache, i wrote about big size of CSS or : http://forums.invisionpower.com/style_images/css_2.css
I have a 100 mbit optic, Celeron 1.7, 512 mb. IE, Firefox and Opera. Good server for IPB with small time of page generation. But pages of forum like topic view are loading slow.
Try this: http://forum.telenet.ru/index.php?showtopic=56965
There is topic example with much time while all posts of topic are loading…
In 2.0 all it was very fast.
September 13, 2006 at 10:04 am
Wilko
@NaFigator, you may want to try optimising MySQL is you haven’t recently, that always makes a huge difference.
September 13, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Myr
I can’t wait to use the new features on my forums. I think the new big one will be a big hit.
Myr
September 13, 2006 at 4:42 pm
DCT
I really do hope that IPB 2.2 works on MySQL 5 and PHP 5 or better…
If it does I’ll purchase a licence.
September 14, 2006 at 4:11 am
whitetigergrowl
“I really do hope that IPB 2.2 works on MySQL 5 and PHP 5 or better…”
I’m almost 100% positive it does.
September 14, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Millar
Can’t Wait =].
September 19, 2006 at 5:49 pm
Other
Is the new big feature a mail centre?