phpBB 3.0.2 RC1

[CoC Chris]

Not sure if this has been released yet, but it's available to download - http://code.phpbb.com/svn/phpbb/tags/release_3_0_2-RC1

[Tuk]

It was released yesterday, you can read up the announcement on the QA mailinglist: http://code.phpbb.com/pipermail/phpbb-qa/2008-June/000003.html .

[wbscriptz]

what the...... great news always in phpBB
Thanks... but it's still RC1 and there will be RC2...RC3... and dunno

[eviL3 Igor]

That depends on how much is found in the first RC.

[Erik Frèrejean]

That depends on how much is found in the first RC. And in the second... and in the third...

[darkonia]

someone here whos tested the new version?

[Semi_Deus]

That depends on how much is found in the first RC. And in the second... and in the third...

The RC's are in fact a safe passage for each release. Else the versioning would be huge.
Now they first test it, then release it, so that every 3.0.x release will be more stable.
Else we would get to 3.0.22 now we may not even make it to 3.0.10

[eviL3 Igor]

It's a bit hard to compare phpBB2 to phpBB3. 3.0 has a much larger ammount of code. 2.0 is also over 5 years old, so 22 releases in 5 years doesn't sound all too bad if you ask me. Although, considering almost every one of those releases fixed a security issue. phpBB 3.0 should be safer regarding this, it's code base is so much securer. You can never know however.

And yes, it's possible that there are a few RCs. I personally think the RCs are a great idea, they make sure that the release really works. In phpBB2 it was possible for the devs to test it out themselves, now there is a QA (quality assurance) team that tests these releases. But everybody is free to do so.

[Semi_Deus]

23 to be exact
It isn't bad indeed but I think with those RC's we can lower that amount.

[eviL3 Igor]

Actually 24, you forgot 2.0.0.