Download phpBB 2.0.21

phpBB is a free to use forum made available under the GPL license. The forum software is one of the most widely used open source forums and uses PHP and a database program to store, save and retrieve messages. Besides MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Access are also supported as database software. On the site of phpBB Tomsworld has a new version of the forum software spotted. The software has arrived at version numbering 2.0.21 and can be used from this page be downloaded in different versions. The new release has been dubbed ‘Bertie’s Summer Vacation’ and fixes a number of bugs and security vulnerabilities. As usual, the developers indicate that forum and/or server administrators will upgrade to the new version as soon as possible. The phpBB 2.0.21 changelog looks like this:

Changes:

• [Fix] Changes to random number generator code to explicitly truncate the length of the string
• [Fix] Quoting on boards with HTML enabled
• [Fix] Special characters on boards with HTML enabled
• [Fix] Redirect to list if canceling deletion of ranks, smilies or word censors
• [Fix] Missing error message if an inactive user tried to login (Bug #1598)
• [Fix] Don’t alter post counts when just removing a poll (Bug #1602)
• [Fix] Correct error in removal of old session keys
• [Fix] Changed filtering or short search terms
• [Sec] Improved filtering on language selection (also addresses a number of bug reports related to missing languages)
• [Change] Backported more efficient highlighting code from Olympus
• [Change] Backported zlib emulation code so that there is only a single confirmation image even if zlib is not available