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It gives me great pleasure to announce and provide some preliminary information about our plans to hold an event this summer. After the success of Londonvasion 2008, we expressed our intention to hold annual events in different locations around the world. Due mostly to time constraints, we made the difficult decision of skipping the organisation of a conference last summer and instead held or participated in some smaller events (The Management/Developer Meeting, OSCON, etc.). We have been accumulating our excitement and are determined to make up for lost time this year!When?21st August, 2010We chose a date that would not conflict…

Hello,The phpBB development team would like to inform our users of a major change concerning the development infrastructure of phpBB. As you may well know phpBB has used Subversion for version control since January 2008, at that time we moved away from CVS which had been used since the project started. Effective from 1st March Subversion is no longer being used as the version control system of phpBB itself, we are now using Git with the main repository being hosted on GitHub.This change doesn’t concern end users who currently do not follow development, but users who use our Subversion repository…

Hi,Due to the release of phpBB 3.0.7-PL1, we’re releasing a small update for the Support Toolkit. This release will make sure that the database cleaner included in the STK will work correctly on a phpBB 3.0.7-pl1 installation.Update notes:When updating from 1.0.0 please make sure that you delete the old STK folder from your server before uploading the new version.If you are unfamiliar with the toolkit, please see the Support Toolkit page.As always, assistance with installation, updating or any of the tools provided with the Toolkit is available in the Support Forum. Please submit any bugs/suggestions to the Support Team Tools…

Hi everyone,We are sorry to announce the immediate release of phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 to address a security issue which was introduced in 3.0.7, unfortunately the issue wasn’t noticed during testing and has only surfaced a week after the release of 3.0.7.We promised working feeds for phpBB 3.0.7. Sadly, we were not able to deliver on that promise – a critical bug in the permission handling for feeds slipped past. To all people who already have updated to 3.0.7, it is of critical importance to update to 3.0.7-PL1. Otherwise, it is possible for users to bypass permission settings under the following circumstances:Feeds…

We are proud to announce the release of the 1.2.5 version of MODX.This version adds several optional parameters in MODX and some minor bug fixes.MODX is the format used for distributing modifications, therefore this announcement is primarily aimed at MOD authors. We will require all modifications submitted after this announcement to use MODX 1.2.5.How to get itAs always, you can obtain the latest version of MODX at the MODX Resource Centre. Additional information and files can be found there too.MODX Creator has been updated to MODX 1.2.5.Required changesLuckily for MOD authors, this release of MODX is almost fully backwards compatible.If…

We are proud to announce the availability of the first stable release of the Support Toolkit. This release fixes a number of bugs and contains two changes in the feature set.Update notes:When updating from RC3 please make sure that you delete the old STK folder from your server before uploading the new version.feature set changes:The STK now ships with a tool that allows you to repopulate the moderators cache table.Due to large memory issues the “URL List tool” has been removed from the STK.Full changelog:[Fix] Corrected some language related issues. (Bug #53725, #53835, #53845, #56865, #57815)[Fix] Display the correct “old”…

We are proud to announce the release of the 1.2.4 version of MODX.This is mainly a maintenance release for MODX. It only adds two optional parameters in MODX and bug fixes.MODX is the format used for distributing modifications, therefore this announcement is primarily aimed at MOD authors. We will require all modifications submitted after this announcement to use MODX 1.2.4.How to get itAs always, you can obtain the latest version of MODX at the MODX Resource Centre. Additional information and files can be found there too.MODX Creator has been updated to MODX 1.2.4.Required changesLuckily for MOD authors, this release of…

Hello everyone,We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB “Run bugs, run! Bertie is coming!” 3.0.7. This new version is a maintenance release fixing a number of a bugs as well as improving on usability and performance. We have entirely overhauled the Feed feature, fixing a lot of bugs and odd behaviours. Some problems with the automated updater have been solved, so if you are still on 3.0.5 this update should work a lot better for you.We urge you to update your installation as soon as possible. The bugs fixed in phpBB 3.0.7 ensure the smooth operation of your…

DavidIQ will now be the permanent leader of the Modifications Team. I, wGEric, led the team temporarily during the transition period after evil

After being on the MOD Team for 2.5 years Igor Wiedler (evil

After much internal discussion, the Development Team has decided that phpBB 3.0 “Olympus” will be the last in the line of phpBB releases that will officially support PHP versions less than 5.2.0. All future feature releases (and their maintenance releases), beginning with phpBB 3.1 “Ascraeus”, will require PHP 5.2.0 or greater.Following the release of phpBB 3.1 “Ascraeus”, phpBB 3.0 “Olympus” will remain supported for a limited period of 6-9 months (further information on this will be released as it is decided upon) — this version will remain compatible with PHP4.As phpBB 3.1 “Ascraeus” is still in early stages of development,…

phpBB is happy to announce that we will be attending the OReilly Open Source Conference July 21-22, 2010. phpBB will be operating a booth in the expo hall, a free exhibition showcasing hundreds of open source software groups.Who?YOU! Members of the phpBB.com Support, MOD, and Moderator teams will also be in attendance, as well as the organisers of phpBB Weekly, a community driven phpBB podcast.When?July 21 and 22, during the Exhibition Hall days. OSCON has not posted hours for the exhibition hall yet.Where?Portland, OR, USA, at the Oregon Convention Center, hosting the OReilly Open Source ConventionphpBB WeeklyWe are happy to…

Hello,Within the last week, it has come to our attention that phpBB.com was unsuccessfully attacked by a malicious party attempting to brute-force account login credentials. This attack was facilitated by a query for “powered by phpbb” on a search engine. Though this attack was not successful as phpBB includes several features to ensure it is not vulnerable to such attacks, users should take measures to ensure that their forums are properly protected.Attack anatomyTo perform the attack, the attacker registers an account on the forum and tests that the memberlist is available for them to obtain lists of users. The attacker…

After seven years of working on the Development Team, four of which were in the lead position, we regret to announce that Meik Sievertsen (Acyd Burn) has stepped down from his post.Meik joined the phpBB Development Team in February of 2003, then under the leadership of Paul S. Owen. When Paul moved on to pursue other endeavors in September of 2005, Meik stepped up to fill his shoes. Since that time, primary development of phpBB 3.0 was completed and we are now well on our way to working on the 7th maintenance release. Under Meik’s leadership of development, phpBB has…

AutoMOD 1.0.0-RC3 ReleasedThe Modifications Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the third release candidate for AutoMOD, our automated MOD installation tool. There have been a large number of bug fixes, a feature addition and some large code changes. Refer to the changelog for more details.About AutoMODAutoMOD is a tool for installing MODs in an automated manner. It performs the file edits for you. Because it is still in RC stage it’s not fully stable yet. Therefore we suggest you not to use it on a live board yet. However, we encourage you to use it for testing…