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Please read the next few lines even if you skim the rest - it's very important.

• This release is not suitable for a main production board, it is for testing only -- 非稳定版本，仅供测试，不适合用于正式的论坛环境！
• This is a very late alpha/early beta build - expect a LOT of bugs -- 此版本界于alpha和beta之间，会有大量的bug在使用中出现
• The instructions in the zip are WRONG - please read further down for more info -- 压缩包中的安装指示有误，请继续往下看
• There are many sections left to complete and this release does not reflect the final build quality -- 还有很多功能尚未最终完成，因此此版本不能代表最终版本的质量
• There is NO upgrade path from 1.2 or 1.3 in this release -- 此版本中不包含1.2和1.3的升级程序
• Do not start translations, the languages will be redone during the first few betas -- 先不要急于开始翻译各种语言版本，语言文件将可能在未来的几个beta版中更新
• By all means experiment in the skinning manager but remember that ALL the templates are to be redone and renamed so any work done now will not be saved. -- 皮肤、模板也可能被更名或重新制作，所以现在就先玩玩的啦 ^____^

Known Issues

The subscriptions manager does not work properly with 2.0.0 yet
Email notification / validation does not work properly with 2.0.0 yet
Trash can system does not work properly yet.

This is the first public release of Invision Power Board v2.0.0 and you should expect lots of bugs. If you find one, please CHECK FIRST to make sure it's not already been reported. If it's not, then please report it in the appropriate forums. We know about several IE style issues both on the board and in the ACP so there's no need to report those and we know about several ACP javascript errors so there's no need to report those. I used Mozilla to develop IPB and if you want a 'pure' experience, use Mozilla or Firefox.

Please have fun with the new skinning system but be warned that the skinning templates and template bit names will be changed during the beta stage, skinning now should just be for fun - please don't expect any skins to work in later releases.

The same goes for languages, the system will change a little during the beta releases. Please don't get too involved in translations at this point.

In general, this is very much work in progress. Skins, languages, images, CSS, code and features are not final and there is much work to be done still including a final optimization and 'polish'. By that we mean that the quality of this beta is lower than you would expect in a final release.

The following features are still to be added:

Better ACP language system including skin-like inheritence system.
Better 'report post' management.
Better 'easy editing' mode for CSS
Better email notification of topics/subscriptions
(... and some other additional tweaks)

Installation

Installation is very easy. Simply upload all the files from the directory "upload" to your forum directory. Once the upload is complete, CHMOD the following files to 0777

- conf_global.php
- install
- lang
- skin_cache
- style_images
- uploads

Using your web browser, navigate your way into the install directory (www.domain.com/forum/install/) this will then start the installer.

NOTE!! Do not use the same database as your current main board with the same SQL table extension or your current board WILL BE DELETED -- 注意！安装时，若和现有论坛使用同一数据库，切记要使用和原数据库表不同的前缀(Prefix)，否则原表的数据会被删除(其实是安装用的SQL文件里使用了dump指令，所以如果你熟悉SQL，直接在SQL文件中删掉那些dump语句便可在原有表格上升级，不过后果自负哟！)

Have fun and thanks for taking the time to beta test our new product!

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We are after some test databases of the following products to get our convertors written ready for IPB 2.0.0. If you have a UBB.X / UBB.Eve, OpenTopic or SMF (Simple Machines Forum) and are thinking of converting and don't mind assisting us in writing a convertor, please contact conversions@invisionboard.com for more information.