phpBB3 Gold Released! - Happy Birthday phpBB

Hello,

Today we begin a new chapter in the history of phpBB. After five years, over 200,000 lines of new and altered code, and many a long night phpBB Group is very proud to announce the release of phpBB3 "Olympus".

phpBB has changed considerably since work on Olympus, as it would become, first began. People have come and gone but this day would not have been reached without the hard work and dedication of all our group members, past and present. The phpBB community, all of you, also deserve a large pat on the back for continuing to support this project. Whether it be through writing mods, creating new themes, spreading the word or simply using phpBB to build new communities, our thanks to you too.

So again we say with great pride and many thanks to all those who've helped us reach this point - enjoy phpBB3.

Thank you.

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Hello,

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB 3.0.0 package.

Please note that we urge you to update - we only support the latest version here.

3.0.0 has seen some some critical bugs fixed, including:

• [Fix] Cleaned usernames contain only single spaces, so "a_name" and "a__name" are treated as the same name (Bug #15634)
• [Fix] Check "able to disable word censor" option while applying word censor on text (Bug #15974)
• [Fix] Rollback changes on failed transaction if returning on sql error, if set
• [Fix] Call garbage_collection() within database updater to correctly close connections (affects Oracle for example)

Please refer to the changelog for a complete list of fixes since RC8:

http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents. ... &version=3

A short explanation of how to do a conversion, installation or update is included within the provided INSTALL.html file, please be sure to read it.

Minimum Requirements

phpBB3 has a few requirements which must be met before you are able to install and use it.

• A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
• A SQL database system, one of:
  
  • MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)
  • PostgreSQL 7.3+
  • SQLite 2.8.2+
  • Firebird 2.0+
  • MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
  • Oracle
• PHP 4.3.3+ (>=4.3.3, >4.4.x, >5.x.x, >6.0-dev (compatible)) with support for the database you intend to use.
• getimagesize() function need to be enabled
• These optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
  
  • zlib Compression support
  • Remote FTP support
  • XML support
  • Imagemagick support
  • GD Support

The presence of each of these optional modules will be checked during the installation process.

Security

Security issues found should be reported to our security tracker in the usual way.

Available packages

If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" or "patch" method for updating.

With this release, there are four packages available.

• Full Package
  Contains entire phpBB3 source and english language files.
• Changed Files Only
  Contains only those files changed from previous versions of phpBB3. Please note this archive contains changed files for each previous release.
• Patch Files
  Contains patch compatible patches from previous versions of phpBB3.
• Automatic Update Package
  Update package for the automatic updater, containing the changes from previous release to this release.

Select whichever package is most suitable for you.

Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!.

Download/Documentation

• phpBB Downloads
• phpBB3 Documentation
• phpBB3 support forum
• phpBB3 bug tracker
• phpBB3 Coding Guidelines
• phpBB3 Sourcecode Documentation
• Press Release

Have fun with the release,
the phpBB Team

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Hi everyone!

First of all, please digg the release announcement for phpBB3 Gold Release: http://digg.com/software/phpBB_3_0_has_been_released_2
The phpBB Teams would like to encourage users to find ways to spread the word of the phpBB3 Gold release, so I?m starting this topic here requesting any ideas you might have for spreading the word.
A few we?ve had are blog posts and articles in tech news sites.
What are ways the phpBB Teams might be able to create additional media interest, what avenues of publicity might we need to pursue?

I also want to encourage you to blog and post about phpBB3 Gold Release on your own Blogs and Forums, news sites, usergoups and any other avenues of interest you might have access to.
Other ideas might be to place phpBB3 Gold Videos on YouTube, post on forums or blogs indicating phpBB3 Gold Release, or sending a notification to publications online and print that you might have access to.
If you would like the teams to contact a online or print publication or other media outlet, please let us know, as well as contact information if you can provide it.

Thanks for helping us Spread The Word.

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Happy Release Birthday

7 years ago phpBB 1.0 was released to the community. Since then, phpBB evolved and grew over the years, now with a strong and healthy community and teams making sure everything runs smooth.

Everyone raise a glass to phpBB's 7th release birthday.

As a little present to you, the community, we are now announcing the official release date of phpBB3 Gold:

13th December 2007 - 17:00 GMT

Be sure to be around for the release party - we want to celebrate the birth of the new generation Open Source forum software solution with you.

Yours phpBB Teams.

You may have noticed the countdown timer in the footer of STG, you may also now want to check the following page:
http://startrekguide.com/starbase/prize.php even if you have been there before now.

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We've alluded to this on many previous episodes of phpBB Weekly, and now its official. Johan Janssens, the project manager and lead developer of Joomla!, will be our guest on phpBB Weekly #043, which will be recorded on Saturday, December 15th, at the usual time. David has been talking about the Joomla!-phpBB meetup in London which took place a few months ago, and so on this episode, we're going to be talking a bit about why and how phpBB and Joomla! are planning to work together in the near future.

As usual, we'd like to invite you to join in live on the episode (and if you call in, you yourself can appear on the phpBB Weekly episode to ask a question of us and/or Johan), but if you are unable and still have questions that you'd like to ask us to pass along, please feel free to post it in this topic.

I'll also take the opportunity to detail our plans for the other upcoming episodes. You'll notice on our TalkShoe page that there's no episode scheduled for December 22nd. We're going to be taking that Saturday off to do miscellaneous things with our families for the holidays, however I will be releasing a "best of" episode that weekend featuring some of the best moments from the past year on phpBB Weekly. December 29th will be a live episode that only I will host (David will be in the process of moving to Spokane), and we'll be taking a relaxed look back at the phpBB news of 2007 and take a look ahead into 2008, and I'd certainly like to have you join in and we can maybe all share our New Years resolutions or something.

What's in store for this Saturday's episode (December 8th)? Well, you'll just have to wait and see...

Thanks again for being part of phpBB Weekly, and I look forward to seeing you when Johan joins us!

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