Welcome to Invision Power Board 1.3 Final

Welcome to Invision Power Board, a fast, efficient, scalable community solution written in PHP and using MySQL for database storage.
Please follow the relevant section below to get started.

New Installations

If you're installing Invision Power Board for the first time, then you simply need to follow the directions in our installation guide to get your board installated and configured.

Updating your IPB

If you're updating your IPB, then please do the following:
  • Read the changed files section and update the specified files.
  • Update your skin files by doing the following.
    • Log into your Admin CP
    • Click on the Skins & Templates Menu and then "HTML Templates"
    • If you want to back up the templates first, click on the "Export" link underneath each HTML template set name.
    • Resynchronise the HTML template database by using the resynchronise tool at the bottom of the page.
    • Repeat the resynchronization for each skin you have to make sure that your database is fully up-to-date.
    • Click on "Skin Version Controller" in the left hand menu
    • Follow the instructions to update your skins to the latest versions
  • Remove any sm_install.php and upgrade.php files you may have used.

Changed files for this release

Please note that these files are only relevant to update from the last release. If you are updating from an older version, please visit our website for more information.

Source Files
  • index.php (very important)
  • admin.php (very important)
  • sources/Admin/ad_member.php
  • sources/Admin/ad_settings.php
  • sources/lib/post_parser.php
  • sources/Login.php
  • sources/mod_cp.php
Language Files
Other Files

* Denotes a new file

Bug fixes for this release

Please note that these bug fixes are only relevant to update from the last release.

  • #101515 Pagination incorrect in Mod CP when using IP address tools
  • #101569 Integ msg edit function missing in ACP / Edit Member
  • #101728 Some emoticons showing when using [URL] tags
  • #101879 Pipe in username causes problem when logging into ACP
  • #102092 PHP notice when logging out