The price tag has been placed on Invision Powers Services’ Content managem system, AKA CCS.

From sources it is to be priced at $35 on its release and will have a $30 support renewal fee. At $35 for a initial and introductory price its a bargain! for what it can do!
To find out more what this is, you can look at the blog entry from IPS.

More details on the pricing can be found on this blog entry on the IPS blog.

IPS has released a new version of their famous product, Invision Power Board.

The major changes are as follows:

• 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.

A release note can be found on this thread posted by IPS guys

After weeks of development I can say that I might be able to release a BETA not ALPHA (feature acceptance) as most of the features I wanted is on there. The only thing that is left to be done is the FURL for IP.Blogs, IP.Downloads & IP.Gallery and maybe an htaccess editor, but I think its unnecessary as what you are going to see with the new IPB is that it is supermely smart and powerful.

Truely this has been the best experience in IPB development I have ever had. IPB 3.x.x realy took it to another level, and with the books I have been reading I was able to produce schematics, processes & diagrams which helped me organise and complete IPBSEO for IPB 3.0.x very fast.

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Today I have started development for IPBSEO for IPB 3.x.x

I must say development is much faster than on IPB 2.x.x, I was able to add meta data to most pages without any page edits (except for bugs I found within ipb; yes i have submitted the fix for that). A demo might be available within 1-3 weeks with the following features:

• meta data for most core pages:
  • profile
  • topics
  • forums
• Furl improvements
  • stop words
  • using MSEO standard furl format (seo_settings)
• Similar topics
• trackback

For the past 2-4 days I have been cleaning up Mseo and fixing a lot of bugs.
I have also started to write a very detailed documentation of MinervaSEO which will be updated every time there is a new feature, or bug that arises. It can be found at http://icelabz.net/wiki/

I am planning on hopefully releasing a final release on Saturday.

The logs will be the following:

• Improved documentation
• Improved error handling
• Addition of a few options for bots
• Addition of canonical link in META
• Title html entities fix
• Meta tags fix
• Redirect fix
• Error 404 handling fix
• New Feature

After that I will try to complete the conversion from IPB 2.x.x. to IPB 3.x.x. and it should  be ready next week or somet time later.

IPS has now released IPB 3,  you can download it in your client area on IPS’s new website!

As with all releases it would be recommended that you do test installation on a demo board that is setup seperately from your main/live forum.

BTW if you haven’t checked it out IPS have updated their main site, which looks AWESOME! thanks to @Rikkitisser

All features of the new IPB 3 can be found here.