phpBB3 Gold Released

[Highway of Life]

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.

[Highway of Life]

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

[Highway of Life]

Please Digg this announcement: http://digg.com/software/phpBB_3_0_has_been_released_2

Thanks!!

[Tom@S Tomá?]

Horah Horah i am pretty happy. I was waiting for this hole my live
IS this good topic?

[Highway of Life]

Yes, this is the phpBB3 Gold release discussion topic.

[yooozy abdelaziz yakout]

congrats mates

what are the new features ? can you sum up some

[Highway of Life]

congrats mates

what are the new features ? can you sum up some

Absolutely!!
http://www.phpbb.com/about/features/

[jdh]

http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?p=3414085#p3414085

I just wanted to say that I am truly amazed at what we as a community are experiencing here. We are watching some of the greatest developers in the open-source world create awesome software for us. It is absolutely wonderful, and I am happy to be apart of it.

I have been with StarTrekGuide.com since May of this year, and I have to say those guys are great. I am absolutely impressed at what they have accomplished, but even more so what the Development team has.

I just want to put out a HUGE thanks to the phpBB community for brining Olympus to us. It is a great present that will outlive this Christmas season, and probably next Christmas season. We at StarTrekGuide will be preparing for phpBB3.1.B1. (we are anxious, but give us a break in unstableness of everything. A few months of stable releases would be awesome!).

Again, just to be redundant, thanks a million. You guys are truly amazing.

~JD

That pretty much sums it up.

[Sniper_E]

One of STG's styles went Gold for the day in support of the phpBB Team!



They did a fantastic job!

[Handyman]

One of STG's styles went Gold for the day in support of the phpBB Team!



They did a fantastic job!

It was a real shock at first, but now it's kinda cool