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Hi all,

I’m pleased to announce, effective immediately that MyBB is no longer distributed under our own proprietary license agreement and is now distributed and licensed under the popular open-source GNU GPL v3.

The move to a fully open-source compatible license comes as we want to open MyBB up to the community and help support the world of free software.

For those not familiar with the GNU GPL v3 license, the GNU GPL license still allows you to use MyBB for free. You may also take a copy of MyBB, modify it and redistribute your derivative version as long as the internal copyright notices are left in tact and your derivative is also distributed under the GNU GPL license.

You may read the GNU GPL v3 license agreement MyBB is distributed with at: http://www.mybboard.net/about/license/.

Questions:

• Does this mean I can remove the MyBB ‘Powered by’ line?
  In short - yes and no. The MyBB ‘Powered by’ line is no longer a requirement on the bottom of your forums, however if you wish to receive support from the MyBB team, it must be in place on your forum.

  The ‘Powered by’ line is how MyBB promotes itself and we receive the majority of our users, we very much would appreciate it if you left it in place as a sign of respect for the hard work that goes in to this application.

• Which versions of MyBB are GNU GPL v3 licensed?
  MyBB 1.4.2 and onwards will be licensed under the GNU GPL v3. Older releases of MyBB (1.4.1, 1.4, 1.2, 1.0 etc) are still licensed under our proprietary license agreement and still subject to the terms and conditions set forward in that agreement.
• What does this mean for me, the average Joe user?
  To the average Joe, this change does not affect the way you use MyBB or run your forums. You do not need to change anything, you just need to make sure you comply with the terms and conditions set out via the GNU GPL - which if you meet our current license agreement, you already do.

If you have any questions or feedback about the license changes, please use the discussion thread and we’ll do our best to answer them.

Regards,
Chris Boulton
MyBB Project Manager

MyBB 1.4.2 is a general maintenance release and a security update to the MyBB 1.4 series. It fixes a few high risk and several medium risk and low risk security vulnerabilities. We recommend everybody upgrades to this release immediately or patch their boards with the manual patching instructions below.

This release comes as the result of a professional security audit performed by GulfTech. (As can be verified here) As this security audit cost us a considerable amount out of our own pockets, we ask that if you haven’t already and have a few spare dollars to spare that you consider donating to MyBB.

These vulnerabilities affect MyBB 1.4.1 and several affect previous releases of MyBB 1.2 (including 1.2.14). Older versions of MyBB may also be affected. Please see the post below for upgrade instructions for 1.2.14.

MyBB 1.4.1 to MyBB 1.4.2 Patch
This patch is only for users running MyBB 1.4.1. If you are running an older version of MyBB then please download MyBB 1.4.2 from the MyBB site and update to it.

Please download the attached ZIP archive and replace the files in your forum directory with those from the ZIP archive.

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If you wish to manually patch your board please download “mybb_1401_patches.txt” and follow the instructions in that file.

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For the upgrade of 1.4.1 to 1.4.2, the upgrader IS required — this is so that templates may be updated. The manual patch set instructions only fixes the high risk and medium risk vulnerabilities and is only made available to temporarily secure your forum until you have time to run the complete upgrade. We strongly recommend updating as soon as possible.

Reporting MyBB security vulnerabilities
If you think you’ve found a vulnerability in MyBB, we advise you not to publicly post it on these forums or publicly release information about it elsewhere until we’ve had time to prepare and release a patch.

As always, you can send through security related messages on the MyBB website from the Contact Us page.

Hi all,

We’ve just set up a page on the MyBB website with information about donating to MyBB. It’s accessible here: http://www.mybboard.net/about/donations

Donations can be made via PayPal and donating to MyBB helps secure the future of MyBB as being a free discussion forum system - it helps us pay for our server for the website, domain names, and any other project related costs.

At the moment, the MyBB 1.4 code is currently undergoing a complete security audit from GulfTech. This is due to the security vulnerabilities found in MyBB since the MyBB 1.4 release. Obviously this isn’t cheap for us - and it’s an out of the pocket expense for myself.

At the moment the only income for covering expenses on the MyBB website is the advertising on the main page, as well as some very much appreciated donations every month from MyBB Central.

If you too, would like to help support MyBB, then it’s as simple as visiting the above page and making a donation to the MyBB Group. Donations can be as little or as much as you like, every little bit helps MyBB.

To all of those who’ve donated to MyBB, both past and those who donate in the future - thank you for your contributions!

MyBB 1.4.1 is a general maintenance release and a security update to the MyBB 1.4 series. It fixes medium and low risk security vulnerabilities. We recommend everybody upgrades to this release immediately or patches their boards with the manual patching instructions below.

These vulnerabilities affect MyBB 1.4 and previous releases of MyBB 1.2 (including 1.2.14). Older versions of MyBB may also be affected. Please see the post below for upgrade instructions for 1.2.14.

WDZ is credited with the discovery of these vulnerabilities.

MyBB 1.4 to MyBB 1.4.1 Patch
This patch is only for users running MyBB 1.4. If you are running an older version of MyBB then please download MyBB 1.4.1 from the MyBB site and update to it.

Please download the attached ZIP archive and replace the files in your forum directory with those from the ZIP archive.

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If you wish to manually patch your board please download “mybb_1400_patches.txt” and follow the instructions in that file.

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For the upgrade of 1.4 to 1.4.1, the upgrader IS required — this is so that templates may be updated. The manual patch set instructions only fix the medium risk vulnerabilities and is only made available to temporarily secure your forum until you have time to run the complete upgrade. We strongly recommend updating as soon as possible.

Reporting MyBB security vulnerabilities
If you think you’ve found a vulnerability in MyBB, we advise you not to publicly post it on these forums or publicly release information about it elsewhere until we’ve had time to prepare and release a patch.

As always, you can send through security related messages on the MyBB website from the Contact Us page.

I’m very proud to announce that MyBB 1.4 has been released and is now available directly on the MyBB website.

MyBB 1.4 is a great leap forward in terms of both functionality of the board as well as a complete overhaul of the administrator control panel. There are over 70+ new features that have been built in to MyBB and the MyBB code base has almost doubled in size since MyBB 1.2.

We’ve also updated the MyBB Website to contain a feature tour and full feature listing for what’s available in MyBB 1.4: http://www.mybboard.net.

We recommend that all users upgrade to 1.4 so they can take advantage of the great new features in MyBB 1.4, but we recommend you plan your upgrade first. More information on upgrading and changes to templates, themes, plugins and languages can be found below.

From me personally, I’d like to thank all of the MyBB staff both past and present for the fantastic work they’ve put in to MyBB 1.4 - it’s been a long time, but I’m ever so grateful for your dedication and support of the MyBB project. A huge thanks should also go to our beta testers who’ve been on the MyBB 1.4 beta from the start, and finally for the community for their fantastic support.

MyBB 1.2.14 is a security and maintenance update to MyBB 1.2 fixing a low HTML Injection vulnerability. This release is also intended to fix the rest of MyBB 1.2’s outstanding bugs and provide a stable platform for those of you who wish to stay with the the MyBB 1.2 platform for a while after 1.4 is released.

This security update fixes:

• [Low Risk] HTML Injection vulnerability

These vulnerabilities affect MyBB 1.2.13 and previous releases of MyBB 1.2. Older versions of MyBB may also be affected.

Information on upgrading, template changes and language changes can be found in the posts below.

Please note, that you need to run the upgrade script for this version. This is so the templates may be updated.
There are no database schema changes in this version.

Reporting MyBB security vulnerabilities
If you think you’ve found a vulnerability in MyBB, we advise you not to publicly post it on these forums or publicly release information about it elsewhere until we’ve had time to prepare and release a patch.

As always, you can send through security related messages on the MyBB website from the Contact Us page.

A final note…
I would like to thank all the staff members, beta testers, translators, mod authors, theme authors, and most of all, you. We appreciate everyone’s dedication towards MyBB, as this release marks the end of our journey with the 1.2 series, which started over 2 years ago.

Hi all,

We are now accepting more beta testers to test the beta of MyBB 1.4. We have already been beta testing MyBB 1.4 with a select group of testers for the past several months. We’ve fixed over 500 bugs since the beginning of testing several months ago all while including countless small suggestions to better your experience with MyBB. Now everyone can make MyBB the best it can be by contributing your feedback and bug reports.

Procedure for applying:
To apply as a beta tester, please go to your Group Memberships page and join the “MyBB 1.4 Beta Testers” Group. A member of the MyBB Group will approve your request. After this is done, you will see a “MyBB 1.4 Private Beta Download” forum on the MyBB Community Forums Index. From here you will be able to read the rules and download the beta. Do NOT PM staff members asking to be added to the beta.

The beta is now closed, since MyBB 1.4 gold has been released

We thank you for your participation.

MyBB Group

First of all, thank you to everybody who has submitted a staff team application in the past few months. We are pleased to announce five new staff members to the MyBB Team.

Chris will be joining us as a support team member. nickman, LegosJedi, yottabytewizard, and ZiNgA BuRgA will be joining us as developers. Please join me in welcoming them to the team!

In addition, we are rolling out a group of experienced MyBB users who are named the MyBB Mentors, identified by their light-blue username and also on the Forum team page. We have invited several knowledgable MyBB users who regularly answer questions on the General Support forums to be in this group. Although Mentors are not officially on the MyBB Staff team, you can expect more reliable answers from these users, as they have shown they have more experience with MyBB than the average user.

We hope with these community additions, we will better serve the MyBB Community with both support and development.

Discuss this announcement

Hi all,

As you may have already noticed, we’re now running the beta version of MyBB 1.4 here on the MyBB Community Forums.

We’ve been moving forward internally with the beta in preparation for this stage and I’m happy to announce that we’re now closer than ever to a release.

Our intentions for upgrading these forums are simple:

• Get the front end of MyBB 1.4 in the hands of as many people as possible. This is the portion of MyBB that needs the most testing as it’s what’s most used by your users
• Ensure that the MyBB 1.2 through 1.4 upgrade is as smooth as possible. This upgrade does a lot of work behind the scenes, restructuring the database and rebuilding the themes. We need to ensure it’s as stable as possible

As this is still beta software, we expect there are going to be bugs, anomalies and other related issues - please report anything you find in the discussion thread (and shortly the MyBB 1.4 forums)

Thank you,
MyBB Group

MyBB 1.2.13 is a security update to the MyBB 1.2 series. It fixes 1 HIGH risk and 1 Medium risk security vulnerability. We recommend everybody upgrades to this release immediately or patches their boards with the manual patching instructions below.

These vulnerabilities affect MyBB 1.2.12 and previous releases of MyBB 1.2. Older versions of MyBB may also be affected.

Thanks to ostro for reporting these vulnerabilities.

MyBB 1.2.12 to MyBB 1.2.13 Patch
This patch is only for users running MyBB 1.2.12. If you are running any other version of the MyBB 1.2 series then please download MyBB 1.2.13 from the MyBB site and update to it.

Please download the attached ZIP archive and replace the files in your forum directory with those from the ZIP archive.

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If you wish to manually patch your board please download “mybb_1213_patches.txt” and follow the instructions in that file.

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For the upgrade of 1.2.12 to 1.2.13, the upgrader is NOT required — just replace the files (or modify them as per the manual patch instructions) and you will be set.

Reporting MyBB security vulnerabilities
If you think you’ve found a vulnerability in MyBB, we advise you not to publicly post it on these forums or publicly release information about it elsewhere until we’ve had time to prepare and release a patch.

As always, you can send through security related messages on the MyBB website from the Contact Us page.

Hello,

Today we are releasing another 3 modules for the MyBB Merge System: SMF 1.1, vBulletin 3.6, and punBB 1.2. In addition, we have included cumulative fixes for the modules in RC2.

There are currently 6 converters with 5 more to come:

Included Modules:

1. MyBB 1.2
2. phpBB 2
3. phpBB 3
4. SMF 1.1
5. vBulletin 3.6
6. PunBB 1.2

Coming Soon:

1. Invision Board 1.3
2. Invision Board 2.1
3. Invision Board 2.2
4. vBulletin 2
5. XMB 1.9

Downloading the Merge System

The latest version of the MyBB Merge System is always available on the MyBB Website in its own section located at http://www.mybboard.net/downloads/merge-system/.

Download the MyBB Merge System

Support & Troubleshooting

For general support inquires or questions, please post in the MyBB Merge System > General Support forum.

If you think you’ve found a bug with the MyBB Merge System, post in the MyBB Merge System > Bug Reports forum.

In all support and bug requests try to be as detailed as possible. Include information such as:

• The version of the Merge System you are attempting to use.
• Which board you attempted to convert from and the version it was.
• The version of MyBB you are currently running.
• Any error messages you receive as well as screenshots
• Any other information that you can provide that may be of assistance to us.

Please note that the MyBB Merge System is still an unfinished product and we cannot be responsible for any damage caused by it. Always make sure you have a backup of your database before running the MyBB Merge System.

As I’ve said before, a huge thanks to those of you, including the MyBB Team, who have tested and reported bugs for the MyBB Merge System so far.

MyBB Group

Greetings all,

We currently have a few open positions on the MyBB Team for support and development roles. If you’re interested in becoming a part of one of the most powerful, free forum applications available today, we’re interested in hearing from you.

Current vacancies are as follows:

• Development Team Positions
  We’re looking for people with a strong background in web development with PHP and MySQL as well as a solid understanding of how MyBB operates in both code and functionality to become an active particpiant in our development team, preferably having released MyBB plugins or modifications at some stage. Knowledge of other database management systems such as PostgreSQL and SQLite is also highly favourable. You must be able to work well with a team and work under project management.

  Your primary position will be working with myself and the other developers to bring new releases of MyBB out.

• Support Team Positions
  We’re looking for people who are dedicated to MyBB and have a solid understanding of the functionality of MyBB and have experience in managing a forum themself, an understanding of PHP and MySQL is not required however may be beneficial. You must be able to work well with other team members. You must be able to communicate clearly and correct in English.

  All we ask of you is that you’re an active participant in both supporting other users with MyBB and can do so in a professional manner.

Please note that all positions are on a volunteer basis, you’re under no obligation to stay with the MyBB Group if you have other commitments that need attending.

Applying
All applications and requests can be submitted through the following form on the MyBB website: http://mybboard.net/contact/?subject=team-position

Please include the position you’re applying for, your MyBB Community Forums username, background information on yourself, information on your knowledge of MyBB, PHP & MySQL experience if necessary and any other information you wish to include.

If you don’t receive a reply, no - we haven’t forgotten about you, it’s just that there are usually too many applications to individually reply to each one. Private messages containing applications/team position queries will be ignored.

Note that existing and active community members will be given preferential treatment for these positions due to their existing dedication to the MyBB project.

Thank you,
MyBB Group