IPS Community Suite 4.2.7 (12.01.2018)

IPS Community Suite 4.2.7
Released 01/10/2018

This is a security release and we recommend all clients upgrade as soon as possible.
Key Changes
4.2.7 is a maintenance release that fixes issues identified in 4.2.6 and also adds settings to help with GDPR compliance.

This release also contains several security updates.

IPS Community Suite


Build Awesome Online Communities Invision Community is a flexible, feature-packed and easy to customize platform that powers some of the biggest and best online communities. Invision Community includes powerful apps that form the foundation of any vibrant community. Forums, image galleries, file sharing, social groups and more, neatly integrated into a single product. It's time to stop hunting for third-party products that barely work together.



Our Forums app is the latest incarnation of the industry-leading IP.Board community forum software, powering thousands of message boards online. Redesigned for even greater integration with Invision Community, it's the most powerful way to enable discussion on your website.


Designed For Flexibility

Configure the platform precisely to your organization's needs

Fully brandable to create a seamless customer experience

Build integration with your existing systems via our APIs


Easy To Manage

WYSIWYG editing for rich content creation made easy

• Thoughtful approaches to content and member moderation
• Logical Admin Control Panel means it's easy to manage

Never Miss A Thing

• Responsive design works seamlessly on desktops, tablets & phones
• Flexible notification options to stay up to date with what has been happening
• Customizable per-user activity streams show you what's happening

Fluid View

Replace hierarchical forum views with a single sleek view that collates topics from across a selection of forums.


Question & Answer Forums

Question & Answer forums enable users to upvote the best questions and highlight the best reply to give better visibility.


Per-forum Customization

Use the per-forum theming options to uniquely customize each of your forums to match your sub-brands.


Highlight Popular Topics

Topics that receive a lot of activity can be automatically marked as 'hot', and show in the sidebar for visibility.


Apps

Forums, Commerce, CMS, File Sharing, Calendars, Gallery, Blogs, Clubs.

Fixes the following issues:

• SQL error when adding Commerce package or customer field.
• SQL error when setting up topic archiving.
• The ‘show reply’ button in notification popup reloads the page instead of loading content inline.
• Opting out of security questions may not work.
• Word filters not applying correctly.
• Reordering custom profile fields may not work properly.
• Draft or future blog entries may be included in the sitemap.
• Rounding issue with half-percentage tax rates in Commerce.

Adds a "More Colors" option to the color dropdown in the editor.

Release Patches
We sometimes release patches for issues that come up frequently between full releases. If you are experiencing any of the issues below on this version you can download and apply the patches using the instructions provided.

• If you are unable to create admin controllers when developing applications, please upload the following files:
  
  /applications/core/modules/admin/applications/developer.php
  /system/Helpers/Form/Text.php
• If after editing a block that shows posts (or comments) it doesn't show anything, please upload the following file
  /system/Content/WidgetComment.php
• If you are experiencing issues with the Activity Stream Filters, please upload following file:
  /applications/core/sources/Stream/Stream.php
• If you have converted from 3rd party software and are experiencing issues with old links not redirecting, please upload the contents of convert.zip to:
  /applications/convert/

IPS Community Suite 4.2.6
Released 11/07/2017

Key Changes
This is a maintenance release to fix reported bugs. Other changes include:

• RSS feeds now use guest page caching system
• Analytic tracking code has been moved to inside head tag
• Ad code placement has a new setting to clarify how sidebar display should be handled
• Various enhancements to Redis engine including data stored encrypted at rest
• Search result improvements