Download Simple Machines Forum 2.1 Beta 3

Simple Machines Forum is open source forum software. The developers are busy working on the next milestone, version 2.1, and have now released its third beta release. The package requires at least version 5.3.8 of php and the database can be chosen from MySQL 5.0.3 or PostgreSQL 8.0 or newer. Support for SQLite has been dropped. Below is a summary of the major improvements made in this release:

SMF 2.1 Beta 3 Released:
Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of the 3rd Beta of SMF 2.1. This version contains many improvements over Beta 2 and also fixes many bugs that were discovered following its release. Among the notable improvements:

• Added reCAPTCHA as core feature to keep spammers away.
• Upgrade.php code cleanup. Now the upgrade process should be more consistent.
• RSS general improvements.
• Added support for jQuery 3.x.
• Modified Curve2 to improve the responsiveness of the design.
• General bug fixes, code improvements, and cleanup.
• Default codification will now be UTF-8.

For full details of what has changed, please see our GitHub repo.