Fact is, it's a release at all
But yes, it is encoded so useless to those of us that aren't using ionCube loader.
As far as the database goes. If I understand correctly, if you've created the plugins properly (as the "plug ins.txt" says) you should have no problems.
Would be good to get a decoded version of this.
I misplaced the decoding software I used so unfortunately I can't do it.