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  • New Support Team Leader and Operations Manager
    Good news everyone!

    As of 2 hours ago, I have taken over the formerly empty position of Operations Manager. My primary responsibilities will officially shift toward public relations, advertising management, event planning, and intra-team issues.

    My former position of Support Team Leader has been filled by Noxwizard, a promotion from his previous position of Vice Support Team Leader.

    Nobody has stepped down and phpBB has a stronger, more focused Management Team. Please join me in congratulating Patrick on his promotion.

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    You may discuss this announcement in the [Discuss] New Support Team Leader and Operations Manager topic within the Discussion Forum.

  • Unified MOD Install Library (UMIL) 1.0.3 Released
    The Modifications Team is proud to announce the availability of the 1.0.3 "Countdown to Libertyvasion Edition" of UMIL, the Unified MOD Install Library.

    UMIL is a library for MOD authors that enables them to easily create database installation and update scripts for their MODs. It provides unified methods to access phpBB's API for adding modules, adding permissions, modifying the database, and more.

    We require MODs containing UMIL that are newly submitted to the MODDB to contain this new version. In order to update the UMIL release included with your MOD just replace the old UMIL folder with the new one. No other changes are required.

    How to get it:

    You can get UMIL and more information from the UMIL page.

    What's new:

    The following was changed in this release:
    • [Fix] Correct table prefix #62118
    • [Fix] Fix the create_table_sql for postgresql properly #61365
    • [Feature] Ability to specify a custom table prefix to be used
    • [Change] Remove the update check in stand-alone mode, it caused problems in some situations
    Bugs:

    Please report any bugs you encounter to the tracker.


    The Modifications Team

  • Introducing Bridges
    Following up OSCON 2010, we have opened up a new contribution type in our customization database called "Bridges and Integration." It is our hope that we will have a variety of officially maintained Bridges available as well as allowing the community to create them too.

    Submitting a bridge will work just like submitting a regular MOD, but with some slightly different packaging guidelines. The code will then be checked for security vulnerabilities and tested to ensure it is functional. If a bridge you are creating is still in development, post about in the [3.0.x] MODs in Development, only add "[Bridge]" after the progress prefix, much like this example.

    You can view the complete rules and packing recommendations regarding the submission of bridges and integration here: http://www.phpbb.com/mods/rules-and-pol ... b/bridges/
    You can submit your own bridges here: http://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/bridges-24

    Feel free to ask for assistance on the phpBB side of things in [3.0.x] MOD Writers Discussion or our IRC channel: #phpBB-Coding.

    Discuss this announcement

  • Planned Maintenance Tomorrow - 13th July, 2010 17:00 UTC
    Hello everyone,

    Our friends at OSUOSL will be performing some maintenance on the phpBB servers tomorrow at 17:00 UTC (click for local times around the world) that requires *.phpBB.com websites to be offline for a couple of hours. If everything goes according to plan, we expect to be up and running by 18:30 UTC.

    As this question has been raised in the past, I would like to preemptively point out that this maintenance does not affect your phpBB board, as it is not hosted on our servers. If you happen to have trouble reaching your board during these hours, it is purely a coincidence and you should proceed to contact your hosting provider as usual to report the outage.

    Additionally, please do not be alarmed if the version checker in the administration panel is unable to fetch the latest version data during this time.

    Thank you,

    The phpBB Team

  • T-shirt design contest results
    After many great submissions and an evaluation and review of all submissions, we are proud to announce the winner of our t-shirt design contest.

    Drum roll please...





    And the winner is:

    Christian 2.0 and his design entry!

    To be more specific, the actual color selections we are going with are the following two:

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    light_grayscale_on_blue.png


    These shirts will be on sale at a discounted rate during Libertyvasion and will later be available in the phpBB Shop.


    Please join me in congratulating Christian!

  • Support Toolkit 1.0.1-PL1 released
    Hi,

    The Support team is pleased to announce the release of Support Toolkit 1.0.1, this release is mainly focused on improving the the overall stability as well the usability of the Support Toolkit.

    New features:
    With this release the Support Toolkit is extended with the following new features.
    • Critical repair tool that validates all phpBB files for any content outside the php tags. (Bug #47435)
    • Merge users tool. (Tool by toonarmy)
    • Tool to recalculate email hashes. (Bug #56425)
    • Tool to re-add deleted users and link them to the new profile. (Bug #56465)

    Changes:
    Besides new features, this release includes some larger changes to system.
    • If there is a UMIL installation available in phpBB use that one over the included version.
    • Rewrote the database cleaner to be more flexible/easier to maintain.
    • The BBCode reparser now no longer reparses only posts with the bbcode_bitfield set.
    • Rewrote critical repair tools system to be pluggable. (Bug #59725)
    • The reparse BBCode tool now reparses BBCodes in PMs and signatures (Bug #60645)

    Bug fixes:
    This release fixes the following bugs.
    • Corrected some language related issues. (Bug #58625, #58635)
    • Sql query tool doesn't decode htmlspecialchars when running a query. (Bug #59755)
    • Redirect to the correct page after logging in if phpBB > 3.0.6.
    • Manage founders tool unusable when there are no founders. (Bug #60155, patch by D¡cky)
    • Properly insert poll expiration times when reparsing BBCode. (Bug #60275)
    • Properly insert topic time length when reparsing BBCode. (Bug #61155, patch by D¡cky)
    • Removed some phpBB version dependant code.
    • [Fix] Let the BOM sniffer correctly handle the install/ directory when re-named. (Bug #62142)
    • [Fix] Provide a more useful message when the BOM sniffer couldn't remove the store/bom_sniffer directory. (Bug #62143)
    • [Fix] Correctly handle directories that shouldn't be checked by the BOM sniffer. (Bug #62145)

    Updating:
    When updating from any older Support Toolkit version first delete the old "stk/" directory before uploading the new version.

    Translations:
    Translations for this version can be found on the translation download page. If there isn't a translation available in your language and you've created one you can send the package to Phil.

    If you are unfamiliar with the toolkit, please see the Support Toolkit page.

    As always, assistance with installation, updating or any of the tools provided with the Toolkit is available in the Support Forum. Please submit any bugs/suggestions to the Support Team Tools bugtracker.

    Thank you, and enjoy.

    The phpBB Team

    You may discuss this announcement in the [Discuss] Support Toolkit 1.0.1 released topic.

  • Happy 10th Birthday phpBB!
    June 17th, 2010 marks the 10 year anniversary of the day that phpBB-founder James "theFinn" Atkinson sat down in front of his computer and wrote the first few lines of what would later become phpBB 1.0.0. While others have come and gone, phpBB has survived through an entire decade with 4 development team leaders working with thousands of contributors and millions of users. The PHP Group recently celebrated their own 15 year anniversary, making phpBB one of the longest standing PHP-based projects in existence.

    Exactly five years ago, our second Development Team Leader Paul S. Owen noted phpBB's 5 year anniversary by raising a glass. Today, I ask you to raise an aluminum can of your favorite beverage to all those who have made this day possible.

    Thanks you for your continuing support,

    - The phpBB Team

  • Libertyvasion T-Shirt Design "contest"
    With Libertyvasion right around the corner I'm sure some of you are excitedly waiting for the event to get here and possibly want to get some nice phpBB-swag to wear for it. So we'd like you, the phpBB community, to submit design ideas for a t-shirt. We welcome any designs that you may have in mind and have the means of saving as an image file of some sort and presenting to the rest of the community. If you think you have a design that will be a nice representation of phpBB you are welcome to post a sample of it to this topic as an attachment and maybe an explanation of what you've designed if it's not clear. Be prepared to receive criticism (constructive hopefully ;) ) from other Community members and from the rest of the staff.

    At the end of this week (or next week if need be) we'll hopefully have enough designs and critiques to make a final selection/decision. The prize will obviously be that your design will be selected and announced here on the site and we'll mail you the printed t-shirt soon as we order them and get them in. You'll also get your very own Bertie and phpBB team polo shirt.

    Above all else, have fun! 8-)


    P.S. In case it was lost above, the topic to post your submissions is here.

  • AutoMOD 1.0.0 released
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    AutoMOD 1.0.0 Released

    The Modifications Team is proud to announce the immediate availability of the "We'll Release it Tomorrow" stable release of AutoMOD, our automated MOD installation tool. There have been a large number of bug fixes for this release. Refer to the changelog for more details.

    About AutoMOD

    AutoMOD is a tool for installing MODs in an automated manner. It performs the file edits for you. As of today, AutoMOD is considered a stable release, meaning we believe all the serious bugs have been removed, and will provide support for any which do still exist.

    Getting started

    Find more information and a download link on the:

    AutoMOD page

    The source is available from the code forge under the GNU GPL version 2

    Translations

    On the download page there are also translations available. If you would like to translate AutoMOD to your language, send a PM to A_Jelly_Doughnut.


    You may discuss this announcement here.

  • Libertyvasion Registration Open!
    Just over 2 months ago we had the pleasure of announcing Libertyvasion, a phpBB conference scheduled for August 20th & 21st, 2010 in New York City. We are now three months away and ready to provide additional information as well as open registration.

    When?
    20th & 21st August, 2010

    August 20th - Development Workshop
    August 21st - Main Event & Social Event in the evening

    Where?
    The event will be held at the Millennium Broadway Hotel New York, located in Times Square.

    For additional travel information, including a map and directions, please see the Venue Page

    Development Workshop
    We are excited to be able to extend the conference an additional day by offering a phpBB Development Workshop. On Friday August 20th, we welcome you to join the phpBB Team and several well-known guests working on phpBB related technology for a day dedicated to the future of phpBB. Guest speakers include:
    Fabien Potencier - lead developer of the Symfony 2 framework, the foundation of the phpBB4 codebase
    Jonathan Wage - developer of Doctrine, another part of the phpBB 4 foundation
    Stefan Koopmanschap - former phpBB Support Team Leader and now Symfony Community Manager
    David Soria Parra - contributor to Git, Mercurial and PHP

    Our guests will give introductory talks on their respective subjects in the morning. The afternoon will be used to work on your own projects or ideas with the help of our experts. You will be able to discuss Git, Symfony, Doctrine or PHP in general with our guest speakers. We may begin working on phpBB4, writing a MOD for phpBB 3.1 or trying out unique workflows between the phpBB Git repository and your own project. This part of the day will largely be shaped by your ideas.

    Registration
    Admission to the event requires prior online registration. You may reserve tickets for yourself and any number of guests via the registration page.

    Payment is accepted via any major credit card through Paypal (a Paypal account is not required when using a credit card). Please contact me directly for alternative payment options.

    Each ticket for the Conference is $20.00 USD while Development Workshop tickets are $100.00 USD. You may also opt to purchase one or more Berties with your ticket (and avoid having to pay for shipping). The Berties will be waiting at the registration desk on either day of the event.

    Register Now

    Sponsorship
    Please email libertyvasion[AT]phpBB[DOT]com if you or your organisation are interested in sponsoring Libertyvasion. We would be happy to distribute your materials or discuss alternative means of advertising during the event. In addition to the physical event itself, we will be publishing photos and videos (as was done for Londonvasion).

    Post-conference social event
    After the conference, we will reconvene at a local restaurant/bar for a social event lasting into the night. The minimum drinking age throughout the United States is 21, however the restaurant does not require attendees to be 21 years old. All are welcome.

    Tell everyone about Libertyvasion!
    Help us spread the word by mirroring this announcement on Twitter (#lvasion2010), Facebook, your blog and everywhere else.

    Feel free to use the banners available on the Spread the Word! page.

    Additional information
    Additional information, including summaries of anticipated talks, can be found on the Libertyvasion page. This page will be updated continuously throughout the months leading up to the event. As with Londonvasion, we also intend to publish videos and photos afterward.

    Thank you,

    The phpBB Team

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    Please discuss this announcement in the [Discuss] Libertyvasion Registration Open! topic


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