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Greetings everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.12 "Bertie: A phpBB Saga". This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which introduces a number of improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience and overall stability of the software, resolves some issues noticed in previous releases, and introduces further security hardening. In order to reduce the potential of accidentally submitting duplicate posts, we have added extra checks to the frontend and backend that should reduce this possibility in the future. The database queries that are used when searching for unanswered posts and topics have been improved to be faster and mo…

Greetings everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.13 “Bertie & Ted”. This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which introduces a number of improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience and overall stability of the software and resolves some issues noticed in previous releases. The improvements include Gravatar URLs now using the updated URL format, an enhanced user interface for removing PM recipients, as well as the possibility to remove users by ID via the command line interface. Error handling in PHP 8 has also been improved for errors that were previously suppressed intentionally. An issue that was introduced i…

Hello everyone, We are proud to announce the availability of the new phpBB Status Site, a simplified status page to monitor the sites and services on our network. The Status Site is a single location to check on the current availability of phpBB sites as well as any planned maintenance work. You will also be able to check on any previous maintenance or incidents. Please note that the Status Site only monitors sites on the phpbb.com domain, it does not monitor externally deployed phpBB forums. The page is created using Upptime, an open source uptime monitor and status page powered by GitHub Actions, Issues, and Pages. Check it out to see whether it might also be a…

Greetings everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.8 “Bertie: Beer and Summer”. This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which introduces a deferred cache purge method and marks the PHP and INCLUDEPHP template functions as deprecated in order for them to be removed in a future release. It also resolves various issues reported in previous versions. Deferred cache purging allows Extension developers to trigger a cache purge as part of their code that is not executed until the end of the request. Therefore, the state of data and the cache will remain consistent during the lifetime of a single request. We have also decided to dep…

Greetings everyone, We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.9 “Bertie’s lunar flyby”. This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which improves PHP 8.0 and 8.1 support and clarifies the message when using an unsupported PHP version. Multiple third party libraries like Guzzle and twig were also updated to include their latest bug and security fixes. Please note that the changes in twig might result in issues with loading template files and hence with loading pages of your forum (see viewtopic.php?t=2631681). Check if installed extensions are compatible before updating or disable them prior to the update to 3.3.9. In addition to this, we hav…

Hi all, We have noticed that the CDN that provides loading of emojis in phpBB has stopped working. While a new version that takes care of this is already in the works, you will most likely notice issues with pages taking longer to load and issues with the display of emojis (see e.g. here: viewtopic.php?t=2634321). Until the next version of phpBB is released, you can resolve this issue by applying the following fix that will be included in the next release: Open phpbb/textformatter/s9e/factory.php Find (~ line 359): Code: Select all Replace with: Code: Select all Find (~ line 362): Code: Select all Replace with: Code: Select all …

Hi everyone, Following many other open source projects, the phpBB project has created the phpBB Collective on the Open Collective platform. Going forward, we will be able to accept donations from individual contributors, and you will be able to track those donations through the Open Collective platform. We have also joined the GitHub sponsors program, so as a GitHub user, you can now sponsor the phpBB project on GitHub! Funds acquired through the phpBB Collective will be used to pay project and development related expenses, like server or code hosting bills as well as expenses for in-person events like team meetings or conference attendance costs for phpBB Team Memb…

MyBB 1.8.31 is now available, and is a security & maintenance release. This version resolves discovered bugs and regressions, and improves compatibility with database engines and recent PHP versions. Please note that the value of Additional Parameters for PHP’s mail() (Mail Settings) now only takes effect when saved in the Configuration File. 1 security vulnerability addressed: Medium risk: Mail settings command parameter injection (advisory) 21 issues resolved Check the Release Notes for more information. Get latest MyBB Full & Upgrade Packages → Go to mybb.com/security to report possible security concerns or to learn more about secur…

MyBB 1.8.32 is now available, and is a security & maintenance release. This version addresses reported security problems and updates SCEditor to the latest version. 3 security vulnerabilities addressed: High risk: Visual editor persistent XSS (advisory) — reported by Aleksey Solovev (Positive Technologies) Medium risk: ACP Users SQL injection (advisory) — reported by Aleksey Solovev (Positive Technologies) Low risk: Attachment upload XSS (advisory) — reported by Aleksey Solovev (Positive Technologies) 1 issues resolved Check the Release Notes for more information. Get latest MyBB Full & Upgrade Packages → The MyBB Project extends thanks…

MyBB 1.8.33 is now available, and is a security & maintenance release. This version improves cache system stability, and compatibility with PostgreSQL (PDO) and recent PHP versions. 1 security vulnerability addressed: High risk: ACP Languages local file inclusion (advisory) — reported by yelang123 (Stealien), NGA (Stealien) 8 issues resolved Check the Release Notes for more information. Get latest MyBB Full & Upgrade Packages → The MyBB Project extends thanks to reporters and researchers following responsible disclosure. Go to mybb.com/security to report possible security concerns or to learn more about security research at MyBB. If you…

[attach=full]4[/attach] One key to keeping software projects and the surrounding communities healthy is keeping friction for all audiences to a minimum. In MyBB, this friction is derivative of user experience and developer experience. Our largest audience is formed by the end users — people browsing online forums, not expected to know what MyBB is, yet benefitting from fine-tuned visuals, phrases, and flows that come out-of-the-box. At the same time, we target two groups further down the forum assembly line, for whom both UX and DX apply. For site owners and community leaders, the software needs to be approachable and intuitive — without requiring particular know…

MyBB 1.8.34 is now available, and is a security & maintenance release. 1 security vulnerability addressed: Low risk: User CP email persistent XSS (advisory) — reported by Ahmet Altuntaş 13 issues resolved Check the Release Notes for more information. Get latest MyBB Full & Upgrade Packages → The MyBB Project extends thanks to reporters and researchers following responsible disclosure. Go to mybb.com/security to report possible security concerns or to learn more about security research at MyBB. If you would like to contribute to the Project, Get Involved. To keep up with Project news, you can now follow MyBB on Mastodon. Thanks, MyBB…

<h1>vBulletin 6.0.6 Changes and Updates</h1> A preview release of vBulletin 6.0.6 is available for self-hosted (download) customers. Preview releases are provided for testing purposes only and should not be used on production servers. Front End Changes Calendar Module Improvements Site Administrators can choose to display birthdays and holidays on Calendar Modules. These are not event nodes and do not allow replies or comments. The information is for display only. [attach=full]10[/attach] <h4>Birthdays</h4> This feature shows the birthdays of users who have been active within a specific period. By default, the activity cutoff is …

vBulletin 6.0.6 is now available for download by self-hosted (download) customers. vBulletin Cloud sites will be automatically updated in the upcoming weeks. Front End Changes Calendar Module Improvements Site Administrators can choose to display birthdays and holidays on Calendar Modules. These are not event nodes and do not allow replies or comments. The information is for display only. [attach=full]14[/attach] <h4>Birthdays</h4> This feature shows the birthdays of users who have been active within a specific period. This will show active all members who have been active in the last 30 days. These settings can be changed in the AdminCP unde…

A preview release of vBulletin 6.0.7 is now available for self-hosted (download) customers. These preview releases are suitable for testing purposes only and are not suitable for production servers. Front End Changes Site Builder Quick Setup Several new options have been added to Site Builder's Quick Setup tool. This tool helps onboard new vBulletin sites after installation. Site Owners can edit the Site Name within Quick Setup. Top-level forum channels can be marked as private or public within Quick Setup. The ability to turn off the Forum, Article, Blog, and Group sections has been added. Deactivating any of these sections will remove their tab from the header …

As we enter the final month of 2023, we can look back on some of the major news from this year and look forward to 2024. XenForo Cloud Our hosted cloud solution continues to delight those who have made the move. During 2023, we have welcomed some big names to the XenForo Cloud system, including BMW Group, Future Publishing and Evolve Media. Both Future and Evolve have migrated their entire forum portfolios, and are now enjoying the high performance, maintenance-free... Read more Continue reading...

XenForo 2.2.14 is now available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability. In addition to the usual slew of bug fixes and improvements, there are a few notable changes in this release. Compatibility with PHP 8.1 and 8.2 Most compatibility issues between PHP 8.1 and 8.2 have been addressed. Remaining issues might trigger E_DEPRECATED... Read more Continue reading...

Hot on the heels of yesterday's XF 2.2.14 release and subsequent patches, we are today making XenForo 2.2.15 available for all licensed customers to download. We strongly recommend that all customers running previous versions of XenForo 2.2 upgrade to this release to benefit from increased stability, particularly if you already upgraded to XenForo 2.2.14. As of this point, XenForo 2.2.14 and its patches are no longer available for download. We are still planning a final XF 2.2... Read more Continue reading...

We are delighted to announce that XenForo 2.3.0 Beta 1 is now available to all customers with active self-hosted licenses. XenForo 2.3 includes a large number of new features and improvements, including: Dark mode and style variants Extensive performance improvements Featured content Image optimization (WebP), client side image resizing and more Automation via webhooks Sign in with Apple, IndexNow, Full InnoDB and improved MySQL... Read more Continue reading...

Today, we continue the beta stage of XenForo 2.3 with Beta 2. This release fixes a number of bugs found since the previous release, and adds a number of new features which you can read about right here. We strongly recommend anyone testing 2.3 during this beta period upgrade as each beta version is released. More specific details regarding bugs fixed in this release can be found in the resolved bugs forum. This is beta software. It is not officially supported. We do... Read more Continue reading...