Editing Invision Community (section)

== Version 4.x.x ==

In May of 2012, Version 4.0 represented a ground-up rewrite of Invision Power Board and related offerings.   

With the release of IP.Suite 4.0, IPS has decided to no longer honor the perpetual lifetime licenses they have sold earlier.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://community.invisionpower.com/topic/400847-perpetual-licenses-being-done-away-with/ |title=Perpetual licenses being done away with. |publisher=Forums.invisionpower.com |date=2014-11-15 |access-date=2014-11-15}}</ref> As a compensation for legacy customers, they offered a free transition period to the standard license type before legacy customers would be required to pay their first renewal if they wanted to continue to receive support and future updates.

The first officially supported release was version 4.0.0 on 9 April 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://community.invisionpower.com/release-notes/|title=Release Notes - Invision Power Services|access-date=2015-08-30|archive-date=2015-09-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910025940/https://community.invisionpower.com/release-notes/|url-status=dead}}</ref> IP.Suite 4 was not properly announced as released until 16 June, at which point it had already reached version 4.0.8.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://community.invisionpower.com/blogs/entry/9732-introducing-ips-community-suite-4/|title=Introducing: IPS Community Suite 4!|access-date=2015-08-30|archive-date=2015-10-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151004141028/https://community.invisionpower.com/blogs/entry/9732-introducing-ips-community-suite-4/|url-status=dead}}</ref>