Download Phpbb 3.0.4

With Phpbb it is possible to set up a forum where visitors can discuss with each other. The package is made available under the gpl license and uses PHP and a database to store messages, supporting Postgresql, Firebird, Mssql and Sqlite as databases in addition to the popular Mysql. Version 3.0.4 has recently been released and contains a number of improvements that should improve stability and performance, fix several minor bugs and also fix some security vulnerabilities. The announcement along with the list of changes looks like this:

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the “one year anniversary” phpBB 3.0.4 package. With this release we would like to thank everyone who supported phpBB the past years. This release fixes some bugs introduced with the changes in 3.0.3, corrects minor issues, fixes two security bugs and also increases performance significantly.

Please note that we urge you to update. The versions we currently support here are phpBB 2.0.23 and phpBB 3.0.4. Bug submissions and incident reports for older versions will be closed.

Important changes since 3.0.3:

• [Fix] Allow mixed-case template directories to be inherited (Bug #36725)
• [Fix] Regression bug from revision #8908 regarding log display in ACP
• [Fix] Allow the UCP group management to work for groups with avatars. (Bug #37375)
• [Fix] Fix header list build for replying oldest PM in PM history (Bug #37275)
• [Fix] Do not display COPPA group in memberlist find member dialog if COPPA disabled (Bug #37175)
• [Fix] Do not try to send jabber notifications if no jid entered (Bug #36775)
• [Fix] Only display special ranks to guests; no longer display normal ranks for guests (Bug #36735)
• [Fix] Properly treat punctuation marks after local urls (Bug #37055)
• [Fix] Make searching for members by YIM address work in prosilver
• [Fix] Tell users to recreate the search index after changing the common word threshold for fulltext_native (Bug #36345)
• [Fix] Adjusted phpbb_chmod() to always set permissions for group bit.
• [Fix] Do not increment users post count after post approval if post had been posted in a forum with no post count increasing set (Bug #37865)
• [Fix] Extend vertical line for last post column if no posts in forum (Bug #37125)
• [Fix] correctly update last topic/forum information if changing guest usernames through editing posts (Bug #38095)
• [Fix] fix postcount resync for situations where low and high post ids are higher than step value, resulting in users having 0 posts. (Bug #38195)
• [Fix] Use a left join for the topics table on search to avoid trouble with FROM syntax on some databases (Bug #37005)
• [Fix] Do not show ‘Forward’ button if the user cannot send PM’s
• [Change] Alllow applications to set custom module inclusion path (idea by HoL)
• [Change] Handle checking for duplicate usernames in chunks (Bug #17285 – Patch by A_Jelly_Doughnut)
• [Change] Better handling and finer control for custom profile fields visibility options. (Patch by Highway of Life)
• [Change] Performance increase for format_date() (Bug #37575 – Patch by BartVB)
• [Change] Changed prosilver date separator from ‘on’ to ‘»’
• [Change] Performance increase for get_username_string() (Bug #37545 – Patch by BartVB)
• [Change] Slight performance increase for common parameter calls to append_sid() (Bug #37555 – Patch by BartVB)
• [Feature] Added ‘AGO’ setting to relative date strings. For example: posted 14 minutes ago. (Patch by BartVB)
• [Sec] Fixed an issue where deactivated accounts could be re-activated without the required privileges. (Reported by Jorick)
• [Sec] Ask for forum password if post within passworded forum quoted in private message. (Reported by nickvergessen)

Please refer to the changelog for a complete list of fixes since 3.0.3.