I?m writing to you once again while driving, this time I?m going back to Nashville from Dallas Texas. ~ Handyman and I just finished our onsite contract with the company we?ve been working for and we now begin our offsite contract, working for the same company.
We have an exciting Newsletter this month, many new things since I wrote you last.
First, its that time again, time for another upgrade.
phpBB3 RC7 Released
However, by now I?m sure most of you have heard about the most recent pair of RC releases a few weeks ago.
But for those of you who may not have heard yet, RC6 was released on October 6th followed by an RC7 release the very next day.
Titled the ?We are sorry and love our support team? edition, RC7 was released after some critical bugs were discovered in the RC6 release.
Many users reported some issues upgrading to RC7 from an earlier version of phpBB3, I highlighted a few of the issues in one of the posts below so you can see at a glance what to do if you have had difficulty upgrading to RC7.
This was probably the bumpiest upgrade since the Release Candidate stage of phpBB3, with many individuals posting support questions. -- Fortunately, most of the support requests were rather common so it was fairly simple for most folks to find a solution to their problem.
Despite the difficulties with the upgrade, this Release Candidate brought on some of the best changes within phpBB3 core that we?ve seen in a while with a host of security improvements performed as a result of the Security Audit completed in the phpBB3 core.
I believe now that version 3 will gain phpBB a good reputation for the quality of the code, it?s stability and security. Competing now with the best Web-Application software out there for secure, solid code.
Also this week, StarTrekGuide has an exciting announcement to make...
Handyman is Invited to MOD Team
My brother, Handyman, has been invited to the phpBB.com Modifications Team as of Sunday. This is very special for both of us, and great for me, because it means I can stop keeping secrets from him.
If you would like to Congratulate Handyman, please do so in This topic.phpBB Weekly #038 Will Come to You Via Skypecasting
In a move of frustration and desperation, Douglas (Webmacster87 / Fountain of Apples) and I have decided to have phpBB Weekly Podcast episode #38 on Skypecast instead of Talkshoe this week.
The reason being that both Douglas and I have been frustrated with the performance and technical difficulties of Talkshoe recently. -- Audio Quality has been a long time problem with Talkshoe, bad enought sometimes that overseas listeners couldn't participate in the show and had to wait until the download was posted before they could listen in.
And the second reason being both of us have had such horrendous Technical Difficulties the last few weeks where we couldn?t even run the Talkshoe client.
You can read more about this move below.
Special Guest: DavidMJ from the Development Team
Some of you may recall that phpBB Weekly Podcast episode #34, DavidMJ was supposed to join us but had a family ermergency. He?s back now and has agreed to guest host episode #38 this weekend.
If you have a question you?ve been dying to ask a developer, or would like to hear about phpBB3 directly from the top, this will be a great opportunity to do so. If you are not able to make it to the show, please submit your questions, and we will be sure to ask them to DavidMJ.
Googlebot Posting on your AJAX Chatbox
We?ve had some recent reports of ?Googlebot? posting on users AJAX Chatbox.
This is a regular user masking himself as a Googlebot (or ask jeeves bot) and is not actually Googlebot.
However, Handyman has released an update to the AJAX Chatbox that disables the ability for anyone masking as a Bot to post.
This update is encouraged for all users.
And finally, to top of this long newsletter, the guys over at Joomla! had some awesome things to say about the Joomla!/phpBB Team Meet in London and the phpBB3 code they have been working with, I encourage everyone to go checkout the blog post from our friends at Joomla!
Well, thats all for now, 11 hours later, I?m just finally arriving in Nashville now, been a long trip and I?m exhousted, but hopefully I didn?t exhoust you with this Newsletter.
Until next time,
- David "Highway of Life" Lewis
