Download UseBB 0.3

The developers of UseBB released a new version of the forum software yesterday in the form of 0.3 released† The update can be downloaded as zip† tarball and bzip2 archive† UseBB is a forum package that uses PHP and MySQL to start user topics and provide responses to those topics. In version 0.3 we find, among other things, an improved administration, new preferences for users, an overview of active topics and a number of bug fixes. For a detailed overview of the changes, see below:

The UseBB Team is pleased to announce the release of UseBB version 0.3. This version contains a massive amount of improvements in comparison with previous releases.

New features include: editing and deleting single posts, new member preferences, FAQ, active topics, forum and topic highlighting, new template system, improved BBCode, installation and upgrade script, etc… Also, many bugs have been fixed.

UseBB 0.3 Changelog

• Added feature 954754: Go to topic list if only one forum is viewable.
• Added feature 973978: Show server load.
• Added feature 978099: Strip off long topic names in topic list.
• Added feature 1055684: Hide avatars/signatures setting.
• Added feature 1055687: Hide from online users list.
• Added feature 1061847: Hide user information in posts.
• Added updated forum and topic highlighting.
• Added feature that saves the guest’s username in the session.
• Added terms of use text in translations.
• Added ‘Open external links in new windows’ feature.
• Added paging for topiclists and topics.
• Added preview feature for posting new topics and replies.
• Added edit post feature.
• Added delete post feature.
• Added edit information viewing in topics.
• Added FAQ page.
• Added active topics page.
• Added automatic installer.
• Added MySQL 4.1 (mysqli) enhanced support.
• Added viewing IP addresses in topics when being admin.
• Fixed bug 990425: Debug messages are passed to CSS as well.
• Fixed bug 990463: Location HTTP Header should only take absolute URLs.
• Fixed bug 997622: Source code compression strips newlines out of text areas.
• Fixed bug 998619: Registration needs valid email.
• Fixed bug 1035507: ob_gzhandler + URL Rewriter error.
• Fixed bug 1037973: No error on invalid website URL (profile).
• Fixed IP Spoofing Vulnerability.
• Fixed session ID vulnerability.
• Fixed Undefined index: NoSuchUser on send new password page.
• Fixed broken time zone support.
• Improved BBCode parser (RFE 973980, bugs 954411 and 1037971).
• Some changes in defining classes with vars defined with ‘var’ for PHP5 compatibility.
• Removed all strtolower() occasions
• improves translation possibilities.
• Configuration, templates and translations moved to file system out of SQL DB.
• Adjusted template engine and configuration and translation functions.
• New default template (usebb.net look).
• Many code improvements, duplicates removed, etc…