In our efforts to improve the services offered to you through IPS Resources, we will soon be releasing another community-driven project, IP.Shoutbox. Much like IP.Tracker, this will be an IPS-sponsored project written by you, the community.

We have approached two people who we feel will do a great job on IP.Shoutbox, these two are currently working very hard to produce a beta of the modification. The developers we have chosen are vadim88, and Shawn Dean. These two will keep you up-to-date regarding the status of this project via the IP.Shoutbox forum. IP.Shoutbox is based on Deans modification 'D22-Shoutbox', and he will be working very closely with us on this component.

IP.Shoutbox has been written with IPB3 in mind, for example, the javascript uses the prototype library to allow the move to IPB3 be all that much easier, the code will be commented throughout so people looking to get involved will know what function is doing what, please remember, even though we have two developers who will start this project off, this is a community-driven project, if and when you find bugs, and you know how to fix them, please provide the fix as it makes it all that much easier for the developers! If you have code contributions, please feel free to submit them in the IP.Shoutbox forum, we welcome your input!

As with all community projects, IP.Shoutbox will be offered for free via IPS Resources for current license holders. We will be posting more updates about this project and the updates coming to IPS Resources shortly.

We are pleased to announce the release of IP.Blog 1.4.0 is now available

This
new version of IP.Blog can be downloaded in the client area for current
license holders of IP.Blog. You can see a working demo of the blog on
our company forums. We hope you enjoy this update and look forward to
the 2.0 version later this year.

New Features
New Default Style
Themes and Custom Headers
Content Block Plugin System
Social Bookmarks
Media Integration
Akismet Integration
Feedburner Integration
Other Changes:

• Edit Entry Date
  
• Display article count for categories
  
• Blog Offline Mode
  
• Entry author replies in comments are now highlighted
  
• Admins can select a ?Featured Entry? to be displayed on the blog listing

We are pleased to announce the second release candidate of IP.Blog 1.4.0 is now available.

Note that this release candidate is only available to existing IP.Blog customers.

• As this is a release candidate there may be bugs and issues with the software. Please report any issues using our bug tracker. Before reporting please first quickly check to see if anyone has already reported your issue.
• You may wish to considering waiting for the final release for your public blogs.
• Technical support is not provided for pre-final releases

Please see list below for a bug fixes log from the previous RC version.

Existing IP.Blog customers can login to the client area to download.

Note: To be able to use IP.Blog 1.4.0 RC 2, you will need to be using IP.Board 2.3.5


Bug Fixes

• Comments Being Cut-Off
• Disabled Blog
• Gallery attachment crashes layout
• Buttons
• Upgrade from 1.4.0 Beta 3 to RC 1 not forwarding
• Blog Header mismatch
• Moderator Overview - login name instead display name
• Featured Entry on Index
• Removal of content blocks from acp
• 2 whitespaces in files
• Clarify setting desc.
• Blocked Trackbacks
• XML-RPC interface
• Blog polls not retaining Multiple votes option
• Entry author does not change after display name change
• If blog doesn't have any entries I can't un/pin it etc...
• Poor Grammar in ACP - Components - Blog - Akismet Logs
• "You're" instead of "Your"
• Album Attachment Collision with Blog Entry Options
• Copyright is RIGHT
• Upgrade Version Numbers
• Very Minor - Uninstall XML
• Skin issues - No Blogs Found
• Minor - Component Title
• Moderator Setting - Featured
• Disabled Blog - Featured
• Featured Draft