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IP.Board 3.0 Pending Alpha
Saturday, November 01st 2008 at 05:56am.
Just looked through my feeds and spotted something nice from IPS, news of their pending preview to IP.Board 3.0.0 
Some time next week (possibly Wednesday) the preview will be online for us customers to take a look at, and prod, the latest updates to the forum software. This is great news, as I can finally decide what features to re-add and what to leave out of our newly installed forums.
Hopefully there are some great out-of-the-box modifications installed, with a decent handful of new features as promised. I’m looking forward to seeing the new designs and layout of the board, especially as I will begin creating themes for IP.Board due to the process becoming simpler. (I’ve only held off this long as to avoid updating). 
We will always have version 3.1 for feature additions and one of the best parts of 3.0’s architecture is adding new features, along with upgrading, is much easier than the 2.x series so upgrades can be developed and released much faster.
That is a bit of good news, updates to the software will be released much sooner with new and better features.
Depending on how the public preview goes we will begin releasing downloadable betas. Expect updates on the beta release schedule in the week following the public preview.
So hopefully in a little over two weeks time we shall have a beta release to install localy. Although I am slightly unsure of upgrading this early, as some of the modifications may not be available or compatible. That shouldn’t be an issue though, as they can always be added in later.