Download Simple Machines Forum 2.1 RC4

Simple Machines Forum is open source forum software. The developers are working on the next milestone, version 2.1, and have released the fourth release candidate. The package requires at least version 5.6 of php and database MySQL 5.6 or higher, although php 7.0 and mySQL 5.7 or PostgreSQL 9.6 are recommended. Support for SQLite has been dropped. Below is a summary of the major improvements made in this release:

Major changes:

• Raises minimum PHP version to 5.6
• Updates SCEditor to version 3 and fixes multiple editor bugs
• Improves numerous database queries
• Makes numerous improvements to theme templates and CSS
• Makes numerous corrections and improvements to language strings and documentation
• Allows CORS requests in SMF

User-facing changes:

• Uses “Forever” as the default time option when logging in
• Moves logout button to profile menu (with fallback for non-JS users)
• Sends HTTP error code 403 (Forbidden) when a banned user tries to log in
• Handles TFA enable/disable menu items consistently in profile menu
• Redirects user back to previous URL after changing language
• Prevents bogus mention notifications
• Fixes various issues with setting user notification preferences
• Adds functionality to remove old alerts after they have been read
• Avoids showing an alert counter with a value of zero
• Improves the UI for attachment uploads
• Improves the templates and UI logic for the PM system
• Fixes an issue with pagination while viewing PM drafts
• Improves handling of time zones
• Uses correct time zone when suggesting default times for a new event
• Fixes issues involving max width of images on different screens
• Fixes issues with attachment images when printing a topic
• Always uses correct rotation for attachment thumbnails
• Fixes several errors while uploading attachments
• Fixes a permissions issue that never allowed guests to upload images
• Uses lazy loading for external avatars, BBC images, iframes, etc.
• Improves BBC parsing in board descriptions
• Keeps order of poll choices consistent across time
• Neutralizes evil control characters in preparsecode()
• Renders quotes with nested url tags correctly
• Fixes an error when attempting to preview a poll
• Allows the time picker script to be translated
• Respects drafts_autosave_enabled user setting
• Removes obsolete spell check feature

Admin and backend changes:

• Fixes issues with reordering custom profile fields
• Improves email notifications regarding registration approval
• Fixes an issue where notifications about reported members used “(N/A)” instead of the member’s name
• Improves UI to display the error log
• Improves package manager UI
• Improves the smiley editor
• Fixes issues regarding time zones in admin member search
• Allows the email field to be disabled for guests
• Hides random news line from guests who cannot browse the forum
• Confirms logouts and redirects when necessary (improves interactions with external integrations)
• Implements new, more robust version of updateSettingsFile()
• Retires old entries in log_packages table when a package is upgraded
• Fixes issue logging changes to custom fields when nothing actually changed
• Prunes log_topics, log_boards & log_mark_boards_read during maintenance
• Fixes an issue with logging moderation actions
• Fixes errors when an external avatar URL was too long
• Fixes “Out of range value for column page_hits” error
• Fixes issues regarding $user_info in background tasks
• Shows correct file names in integration hooks list
• Adds support for more password hashing schemes for converters
• Fixes a session write fail issue
• Fixes issues when merging topics
• Ensures $modSettings[‘board_manager_groups’] is always defined
• Ensures trackStats() & AddMailQueue() exist before calling them in obExit()
• Improves get_proxied_url() and general proxy handling
• Supports Cloudflare in auto-detection or Reverse Proxy IP headers
• Avoids a database error on MariaDB during profile export
• Fixes an undefined index error when board has grandchild boards
• Fixes autoloading for cache classes
• Fixes an issue where membergroups were not displayed via SSI Who’s Online
• Removes Afrinic.net WHOIS link, since they no longer support it
• Adds link to the Read Logs settings from the Scheduled Tasks settings
• Improves handling of 4-byte UTF-8 in script.js

Installer and upgrader changes:

• Fixes issues installing SMF on PHP 8.0
• Fixes typos affecting the installer
• Fixes upgrader freezes
• Fixes handling of legacy attachments during upgrade
• Fixes undefined PHP function error during upgrade
• Includes karma data in database backup during upgrade
• Create record for all watched topics and boards during upgrade
• Improves handling of some HTTPS URLs during upgrade
• Correctly preserves membergroup properties during upgrade
• Correctly handles invalid year-only birthdates during upgrade
• Fixes issues with deleting upgrader files after upgrade is complete
• Fixes issues with running the upgrader from CLI
• Fixes various database queries in the upgrader
• Sets default notification frequency to “Straight Away” instead of “Never”
• Fixes issues upgrading from SMF 1.x
• Fixes registration “no access” error after upgrading