Hi all,
After more than 9 months of development I'm proud to announce the first official release of Icy Phoenix.

As most of you already know, I left phpBB XS project because I didn't like something of the guidelines and I've decided to create this new package starting from phpBB XS. So many things have been changed since then, and almost all the files have been modified. Only few third party mods have been added, while all the previous features have been refreshed and integrated in a different way respect to phpBB XS. I've personally written many lines of brand new code while trying to give the package its own identity. The result is that Icy Phoenix is something more than just a premodded: files structure has been redesigned, overall CMS and blocks features let users customize existing pages as well as new pages, extended caching system to speed up sites navigation, more...

The major advantages of Icy Phoenix are:

• CMS management
  
• phpBB permissions system and forum
  
• Several integrated features to build a complete website
  
• Many options in ACP to switch features and customize the site
  
• Overall templates, language and caching system
  
• Almost 100% XHTML 1.0 W3C compliant
  
• Open Source

Some disadvantages are:

• Generates more CPU charge, memory usage and bandwidth than standard phpBB (this is the price to pay for having extra features)
  
• If you want to add some mods created for phpBB you should know that this will require some extra work in Icy Phoenix, because of its different structure
  
• Created by non-professionals, and this means that the package could have some bugs and the support may be delayed because provided by people who are sacrifying their free time for it

During these months of development I've been helped a lot by all the Staff, both in supporting here and in beta testing... a big thanks to all the Staff.

A big thank you is for Bicet as well. Even if some divergencies pushed me to leave the project we developed together for more than one year, I really have to thank him for all the work we did together and for having started such a good project like phpBB XS was. I hope he'll find some free time in the future allowing him to code again.

This brand new release is almost similar to latest RC: as promised only few changes have been applied just to fix the bugs being found.

As usual, no code changes will be released, and won't probably be released for any version in the future. This is because the package is quite huge and writing code changes requires much time: as I already said in the past, I prefer to focus my free time on developing the package instead of writing huge code changes that could be difficult to be applied. Trust me, in most cases it is quicker to replace old files with new ones and reapply eventually added mods (you should take note of the mods you have applied). My efforts will be dedicated to the upgrade procedures to allow you to upgrade your sites with the smallest unexpected issues.

Another little note about phpBB 3. As many of you know, phpBB 3 is going to be released. Icy Phoenix won't be updated to phpBB 3 for many reasons: features compatibility, templates system, CMS, more... If you need just a forum, maybe it is worth waiting phpBB 3 to be released and install it. I may consider to create a new package relying on phpBB 3 in the future, but it is not guaranteed that it will happen. Please, when phpBB 3 will be out do not ask for conversion or upgrades of something... you have been warned.

Finally about MG Themes: Winter, Spring and Summer won't be released until I'll find the time to fix a bug for the rounding corners script. Please don't ask for them... you have some new themes with this release, and you'll have much more in the future.

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You may also refer to this file for all these info:
http://www.icyphoenix.com/docs/readme_english.html


And finally here is the download link:



Should you ask for support, please remember that this is an open source community and me and all the Staff are doing all for free and in their spare time... be kind, be patient and respect other users efforts and hard work.

Enjoy Icy Phoenix!
Luca Libralato

Thanks MG.
Welcome IP

nice downloading            

THANKSSSSSS EXCELLENT WORK    

one question this file it's correct?

 

RC3 14 14?

Many Thanks MG

But the download file is ip_20070506_101414_rc3.zip ??
is this correct ???

Pepi

Thanks MG, great work!

                   

Thanks MG !!!

the file is incorrect "ip_101414_rc3"

Tnx, MG.

Going to upgrade right now.

Thanks a lot!

Sorry, I forgot to run the latest SQL... now the file should be the right one.

Luca you are the best   

Long live for Icy Phoenix!!   

Greetings!!

Grazie Luca,

e forzza ICY