Download phpBB 2.0.15

The development team behind phpBB has updated its eponymous open-source forum software to version 2.0.15. on this page the different downloads can be found. The program uses PHP and MySQL to store, save and retrieve messages. Besides MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Access are also supported as database software. The changelog of this release shows the following changes:

The changelog (contained within this release) is as follows:

• Fixed moderator status removal in groupcp.php
• Removed newlines after ?> on some files
• Added admin re-authentication (admin needs to login seperatly to access the ACP)
• Fixed vulnerability in url/bbcode handling functions
• Fixed issue in admin/admin_forums.php
• Suppressed warning message for fsockopen in /includes/smtp.php
• Fixed bug in admin/admin_smilies.php (admin is able to add empty smilies)
• Adjusted documents to reflect the urgent need to update the files too (not only running the database update script)
• Updated the readme file
• Added one new language variable
• Added general error if accessing profile for a non-existent user
• Changed session id generation to be more unique
• Fixed bug in highlight code to escape characters correctly
• Reversed the 2.0.14 fix for postgresql because it produced more problems than it solves.
• Added reference to article written by R45 about case-sensitivity in postgreSQL to the readme file
• Fixed bypassing of validate_username on registration
• Empty url/img bbcodes no longer get parsed