Download phpBB 3.1.5

The fifth update for version 3.1 of phpBB has been released. With this program it is possible to create a web forum. PhpBB is made available under the gpl license and uses PHP and a database program to store messages. Besides MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server and SQLite are also supported as database software. Version 3.1 includes a large number of changes for users and admins as well as developers. The most important changes in version 3.1.5 are listed below:

Security and Hardening

• Hardening: Use autocomplete=off for password fields
• Hardening: Do not populate password fields in the ACP settings with the old password – Thanks Fortify Open Source Review for suggesting
• Content Permissons: Post subjects from protected subforums were listed incorrectly on the forum index in the following two scenarios: 1. Forum that has no forum password has a subforum with a password. 2. Forum with read permissions has a subforum without read permissions “Can read forum”, but with list permissions “Can see forum” – Thanks 5hocK for suggesting

New Features

• Events – More events have been added to the template and the php core

Notable Bug Fixes

• Printing topics with webkit – Properly display background images when printing with webkit browser
• Language files for xCP modules – Adding multiple language files for acp/mcp/ucp modules was incorrectly handled for extensions
• Several Controller Fixes – AJAX responses did not support exceptions messages, AJAX responses did not support meta_refresh and redirect