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Invision Power Board 1.1 RC2

This is the second release candidate version of Invision Power Board v1.1. This is release candidate quality and labelled as stable. Skins and languages from version 1.0.x do not work in 1.1 software. If you are uncomfortable upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1 yourself, consider purchasing our upgrade service

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Download: Invision Power Board 1.1 RC2
This is the second release candidate version of Invision Power Board v1.1. This is release candidate quality and labelled as stable. Skins and languages from version 1.0.x do not work in 1.1 software. If you are uncomfortable upgrading from 1.0.x to 1.1 yourself, consider purchasing our upgrade service.

Previous Versions: Invision Power Board 1.0.1
This version is made available for use with older convertors and such. It is NOT advised to use this release as your live board as it contains old bugs that have since been fixed that may compromise security of your system. We advise that you download and use v1.1 whenever possible.

Fixed Bugs

• 37294: Msgr: sorting / pagination bug fix
  
• 37262: Msgr: Inbox too wide fix HTML bug fix (credit: Richard)
  
• 36808: UCP: Removing custom member title bug fix
  
• 36009: Search: Pagination added to page bottom (Get Active / New)
  
• 34520: MSN JS activation bug fix
  
• 34002: Emailing: "IBForums" changed to <#BOARD_NAME#>
  
• 37726: Help Docs: Wrong error returned when viewing non-existant topic fix
  
• 37724: Help Docs: No desc. shown in search results fix
  
• 37452: Help Docs: Wrong title in search results fix
  
• 37548: Topics: Next Oldest, Next Newest not showing you in browsing topic fix

Download: IPB 1.1 RC2
News source: IPB Downloads Page

The objecting states spent more than two months in court offering testimony and evidence supporting their call for a stiff remedy. The states argued that a stinging June 2001 Court of Appeals ruling against Microsoft warranted changes to the company's software. Among other things, the states asked that Microsoft be compelled to offer a second version of Windows with so-called middleware removed, and to give away the source code, or blueprint, to its Internet Explorer browser software.

But following a string of courtroom procedural gaffes made by the states and three days of testimony by Chairman Bill Gates, Microsoft successfully weakened the states' arguments. After more than four months of deliberations, Kollar-Kotelly approved the settlement with minor modifications and imposed a revised version of the deal as her remedy in the plaintiff states' case. The ruling stunned many legal experts, who questioned whether the states could successfully appeal.

Still, even as Microsoft claimed victory in its larger antitrust case, setbacks in other court proceedings and the filing of additional private antitrust cases created new legal problems.

U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz started the year by rejecting a settlement that would have given free Microsoft software to needy schools. Critics had called the proposed settlement, which would have ended more than 100 private consumer lawsuits, a way for Microsoft to thwart competition by seeding schools with its software.

Motz also held a three-day hearing in December on one of several separate antitrust cases filed by Microsoft competitors. Sun Microsystems, which along with AOL Time Warner's Netscape division had sued Microsoft earlier in the year, asked Motz to order Microsoft to carry the Java Virtual Machine in its Windows XP operating system.

As Motz held his hearing in Baltimore, two states--Massachusetts and West Virginia--prepared to appeal Kollar-Kotelly's remedy ruling. (Seven other states accepted nearly $30 million from Microsoft for legal fees rather than join the appeal.)

Across the Atlantic, the European Union's Competition Commission prepared its preliminary ruling on a separate antitrust investigation into Microsoft. The European Commission's case focused on allegations that Microsoft used its dominance in desktop operating systems to gain unfair advantage in the market for server software.