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Possible downtime
Some of you may have noticed an inability to connect to our site earlier today. The provider (NERO) who serves our host (OSUOSL) is currently facing faults in some of their routers. Corrective measures were taken earlier to resolve most of the issues, but they will need to perform some maintenance on the devices. Until then, there may still be some connectivity issues. While they will make attempts to route traffic through other devices during the maintenance window, it is possible that some users may be unable to connect during that time.
Maintenance on the devices will occur between 11:00 - 14:00 UTC, January 26.
Thanks,
The phpBB Team
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We oppose SOPA / PIPA, and so should you!
The United States Congress is currently considering two bills, known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect IP Act (PIPA). The passage of these bills would be extremely harmful to the internet community that we all share and love.
Learn more about SOPA / PIPA and, if you are a Unites States citizen, tell your Congressman and Senator that you are in favor of a free and open internet!
Wikipedia wrote:SOPA and PIPA put the burden on website owners to police user-contributed material and call for the unnecessary blocking of entire sites. Small sites won't have sufficient resources to defend themselves. Big media companies may seek to cut off funding sources for their foreign competitors, even if copyright isn't being infringed. Foreign sites will be blacklisted, which means they won't show up in major search engines. SOPA and PIPA build a framework for future restrictions and suppression.
Further reading:
Wikipedia's message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CongressLookup
Google's message: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/
Reddit's message: http://blog.reddit.com/2012/01/stopped- ... s-all.html
Wikipedia's article on SOPA (not blacked out): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act
Google search for "SOPA": https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=sopa
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A few US based events (NYC, Philly, Boston, DC) Jan 19 - 25
Hello everyone,
Apologies about the late notice, but I would like to announce a few US East Coast based events that some of you may be interested in attending,
I will be joining Nick Mailer, co-founder of the The Positive Internet Company and Richard Stallman, who needs no introduction, to discuss the roots of phpBB, problems we have experienced over the years and some steps that will be taken to resolve some of those problems in the near future. The talks will include cloud based technologies with branching into other topics.
For more information about the presentation and speakers, please see the following two pages:
http://www.positive-internet.net/events ... -the-cloud
http://www.positive-internet.net/events ... -the-cloud
- Please register at the links above ASAP to guarantee space.
- Please reblog/tweet/etc. this post to spread the word if your audience might be interested in attending.
Boston, MA
Thursday, Janaury 19, 2012
The Colonnade Hotel
120 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02116
Washington DC
Friday, January 20, 2012
Willard Intercontinental Hotel
1401 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004
Philadelphia, PA
Monday, January 23, 2012
Omni Hotel Independence Park
401 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
New York, NY
January 21, 24 & 25, 2012
The New York Palace Hotel
455 Madison Avenue at 50th Street, New York, NY 10022
Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions.
I look forward to seeing some of you there.
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Support Toolkit 1.0.5 released
Hi all,
The Support Team is pleased to announce the availability of the fifth maintenance release of the Support Toolkit. This release improves overall stability of the toolkit as well introduces support for phpBB 3.0.10. This new release can be downloaded from the Support Toolkit page in the CDB.
Updating
When updating from any older Support Toolkit version first delete the old stk/ directory before uploading the new version.
Translations
Translations for this release can be downloaded here. To enable a translation, you only have to download the package and place it in the stk/language directory.
New features:
- Introduce support for phpBB 3.0.10
Bugfixes:
- [Fix] Correctly handle empty module data when resetting the boards modules. (Bug #62958)
- [Fix] The "ERK" now correctly handles strict/deprecated errors. (Bug #62976)
- [Fix] Added missing language entry. (Bug #62856)
- [Fix] Reparse bbcode changes topic poster to guest (Bug #62889, Patch by Dicky)
- [Fix] STK password variable incorrectly unset when not logged in. (Bug #62946)
- [Fix] Correct version handling in the database cleaner. (Bug #62961)
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 through the support section in the CDB. 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 1.0.5 released topic.
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phpBB 3.0.10 released
Greetings community,
We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB "Bertie's new year present" 3.0.10. This version is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs. Most noteworthy a number of moderator controls are now more precisely controlled by specific permissions instead of being available to all moderators. The display of the index page birthday list now also depends on the view profile permission. We have tested phpBB 3.0.10 with the upcoming PHP 5.4 release and made the necessary changes to ensure a smooth upgrade.
We urge you to update your installation as soon as possible. Our support team will only support phpBB 3.0.10, updates to phpBB 3.0.10 and conversions to phpBB 3.0.10. Submissions to our trackers for older versions will not be accepted, please make sure you update before you submit a bug report.
If you use a language pack other than the default "English [GB]", you should check our downloads section, an update may already be available.
We would also like to say a special thank you to everyone outside the development team who has contributed a patch to this release:
Callum Macrae, Vjacheslav Trushkin, Maël Soucaze, Patrick Webster, Alan, David King, Marc Alexander, Tabitha Backoff, Wendy Liu, dmauri and Victor Nagy. You can find a full list of contributors on our redesigned Area51 development section: http://area51.phpbb.com/contributors.
For a complete list of changes with attributed ticket numbers, please consult our comprehensive changelog.
Installation instructions
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. You can find a list of requirements on our Downloads page.
Security
If you find any security issues please report them to our security tracker.
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.
- Full Package:
Full phpBB 3 source code and english language files. - Automatic Update Package:
Update package for the automatic updater, contains changes from previous release to this release. - Changed Files Only:
Complete files, but only those that were changed since previous releases of phpBB 3. This archive contains changed files for every previous release. - Patch Files:
This file contains diffs against the previous phpBB 3 release, which can be applied with the patch utility.
Select the package most suitable for you. We recommend the following methods depending on your situation:
- For new installations you should use the Full Package
- For updates of boards without modifications you can use the Automatic Update Package (guided update) or the Changed Files Only package (manual update).
- For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you can use the Patch Files Package.
- International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction with the Code Changes to better support users with problematic conflicts during their update process or to help them update code sections.
- If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files Package to update all of your client installations.
Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!
Download Locations
The download is of course available on our downloads page.
Our release archive provides all packages we build. If you do not find your desired package you can probably find it in the release archive.
These are the files with their md5 sums:
phpBB-3.0.10.zip (Full Package)
md5sum: e0f89bf3c5e360f395cc24c4b902164d
phpBB-3.0.10.tar.bz2 (Full Package)
md5sum: 926f80d166546db03472b0a0f05c8edb
phpBB-3.0.10-patch.zip (Patch Files)
md5sum: 93ee2b0c4149787e061803bc7dc74e98
phpBB-3.0.10-patch.tar.bz2 (Patch Files)
md5sum: c68536e043735dea1de3e3f5a0b33378
phpBB-3.0.10-files.zip (Changed Files)
md5sum: be61f310c4dc1c944bb7cd64a0d84e1f
phpBB-3.0.10-files.tar.bz2 (Changed Files)
md5sum: ce32f74c0a0a00ce1551913948ae1596
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10.zip (Automatic Update Package from 3.0.9)
md5sum: 4420814a9a64012f42ac9e3329d1d614
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10.tar.bz2 (Automatic Update Package from 3.0.9)
md5sum: f20b6d84e978cbdadfcca3e3ee4bb183
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10-codechanges.zip (Language and Style Code Changes)
md5sum: 2157e8c6fab212c99c257bc0c56715dd
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10-codechanges.tar.bz2 (Language and Style Code Changes)
md5sum: 847088926536ff1fdce052ae240c69bf
phpBB-3.0.10.webpi.zip (Microsoft Web Platform Installer Package)
md5sum: 083b0c4f212b91fcba98e5f1910b0193
Download & Documentation
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New York City phpBB Meetup - Friday Aug 19th 8:00PM EST
Hello everyone,
I am most pleased to announce a community-organised New York City phpBB meetup.
We have reservations at Fred's Restaurant starting at 8:00PM. The restaurant provides an extensive food menu and a full bar. Some of us will eat, some of us will drink and all of us will bask in the glory that is phpBB. Bring your friends, bring your stories, bring yourselves.
When? Friday 19th of August 8:00PM EST
Where? (see map)
Fred's Restaurant
476 Amsterdam Ave
New York, NY 10024
Please see the discussion topic for more information: viewtopic.php?f=64&t=2133592
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We hope to see you there.
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Customisations Database now supports ColorizeIt
Hi everyone,
The phpBB Styles Team is proud to announce that the Customisations Database now supports ColorizeIt!
What is ColorizeIt?
ColorizeIt is an online color scheme editor for forum styles, blog themes and website templates. With only a few simple clicks you can change the color scheme of any forum (phpBB) or blog theme (WordPress and Drupal) without editing any images or html/css files. These are all provided by the ColorizeIt system.
How can I use it?
Simple: go to the contribution page of the style where you want to change the colours from, for example for prosilver Special Edition it would be this link, once the page loads just click on the "Change Colours" button, and follow the introductions from there.
How can I add that to my submission?
You don't have to do anything  For all approved Styles the ColorizeIt feature is enabled by default. For Styles Authors this means that you will only be able to see/use it when your Style has been approved.
What about the Colorize Styles I have submitted to the Customisations Database?
All Style Authors will be contacted if they have a ColorizeIt Style, at which point they will be given the option to keep one Style in our Customisations Database while the others will be removed so users will not be confused by multiple ColorizeIt Style versions.
Special Thanks
The Styles Team would like to thank CyberAlien for his work and support during the integration.
Bugs
If you find any bugs please report them to our Customisations Database Bug Tracker.
Discuss
You may discuss this announcement here.
Thank you,
The phpBB Styles Team
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Scheduled Maintenance 14th July 2:00AM UTC
Hello everyone
We will be performing some server maintenance late Thursday/early Friday. The agenda includes doubling the memory in our servers, a kernel update and an overhaul of the database VM structure.
To minimize the inconvenience, we are scheduling this as closely as possible to phpBB.com's least active hours and combining multiple procedures in one day. We expect to be done within 4 hours and will start at 6:00 PM PST/9:00PM EST/2:00AM UTC. Click here for times from selected cities around the world
Various components of the site (the board, area51, the blog, wiki, documentation, etc.) will be sporadically offline during this time.
Thank you,
The phpBB Team
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Support Toolkit 1.0.4 released
Hi all,
The Support Team is pleased to announce the availability of Support Toolkit "Bertie's lifeguard" 1.0.4. This fourth maintenance release introduces some small new features, but is mainly aimed at improving the stability of the Support Toolkit on various platforms supported by phpBB itself. This release also introduces full phpBB 3.0.9 support. This new release can be downloaded from the Support Toolkit page in the CDB.
Updating
When updating from any older Support Toolkit version first delete the old stk/ directory before uploading the new version.
Translations
Translations for this release can be downloaded here. To enable a translation, you only have to download the package and place it in the stk/language directory.
New features
- [Add] Add the ability to delete users to the profile list tool. (Bug #62727)
- [Add] Support the mssqlnative DBAL. (Bug #62803, #62804)
- [Add] Mark/Unmark all checkboxes in the restore deleted users tool. (Bug #62833)
Changes
- [Change] Revert to use the phpBB common.php. (Bug #62658)
- [Change] Make the ACP link "founder only". (Bug #62682, Patch by WileCoyote)
- [Change] Various changes to the database cleaner to correctly support all the DBMS supported by phpBB.
Bugfixes
- [Fix] Correctly package the translation packages. (Bug #62651)
- [Fix] Incorrect include path in the mysql_upgrader. (Bug #62653)
- [Fix] In some cases the database cleaner is loaded twice, causing blank pages. (Bug #62660, Patch by D¡cky)
- [Fix] Depricated error in PHP 5.3.x. (Bug #62662)
- [Fix] Remove unused button from the database cleaner. (Bug #62663)
- [Fix] Resolve "500 Server errors" on IIS. (Bug #62679)
- [Fix] Undefined index error in the resync user groups tool. (Bug #62687)
- [Fix] BBCode reparser incorrectly handles guest posts. (Bug #62713)
- [Fix] BBCode reparser doesn't keep "reparseall" flag. (Bug #62725)
- [Fix] Allow multibyte characters in the SRT generator. (Bug #62744)
- [Fix] Allow disallowed user names in the "add user" tool. (Bug #62685)
- [Fix] Resolve SQL error when resynchronising PM report flags. (Bug #62783)
- [Fix] Resolve an postgreSQL error in the resync. report flags tool. (Bug #62788)
- [Fix] Unexpected return while running database cleaner. (Bug #62799)
- [Fix] Missing semicolon potentially corrupts index in mysql upgrader [ref: PHPBB3-10192]. (Bug #62800, Patch by Noxwizard)
- [Fix] Database cleaner doesn't continue. (Bug #62801)
- [Fix] Stricter HTTPS check in the auto cookie tool. (Bug #62814, Patch by Noxwizard)
- [Fix] Restore Deleted Users tool uses invalid grouping. (Bug #62818, Patch by Noxwizard)
- [Fix] Profile List fails on MSSQL. (Bug #62819)
- [Fix] Reparse all bbcodes fails on MSSQL Native. (Bug #62820)
- [Fix] All tables and columns marked missing in Firebird and Oracle. (Bug #62821)
- [Fix] Reparse All BBCodes enters infinite loop for MSSQL. (Bug #62822)
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 through the support section in the CDB. 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 1.0.4 released topic.
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phpBB 3.0.9 released
Greetings community,
We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB "Bertie's off to the beach" 3.0.9. This version is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs as well as adding some minor new features. It contains two new caching backends: WinCache for Windows servers and a Redis backend. The number of login attempts without having to solve an anti-spambot task can now be limited by IP. Username and password fields are no longer incorrectly autocompleted in the ACP.
We urge you to update your installation as soon as possible. Our support team will only support phpBB 3.0.9, updates to phpBB 3.0.9 and conversions to phpBB 3.0.9. Submissions to our trackers for older versions will not be accepted, please make sure you update before you submit a bug report.
If you use a language pack other than the default "English [GB]", you should check our downloads section, an update may already be available.
We would also like to say a special thank you to everyone outside the development team who has contributed a patch to this release:
Erik Frèrejean, Callum Macrae, Eric, RMcGirr83, Yuriy Rusko, Adam Reyher, Kevin Locke, Patrick Webster, Raimon, Josh Woody, Marek A. Ruszczynski, Richard Foote, Sam Thompson, Schnorrer42, Bart van Bragt, ChrisTX, Ingo Migliarina, Marc Alexander, Niklas Schmidtmer and Philippe Chevrier. You can find a full list of contributors on our redesigned Area51 development section: http://area51.phpbb.com/contributors.
For a complete list of changes with attributed ticket numbers, please consult our comprehensive changelog.
Installation instructions
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. You can find a list of requirements on our Downloads page.
Security
If you find any security issues please report them to our security tracker.
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.
- Full Package:
Full phpBB 3 source code and english language files. - Automatic Update Package:
Update package for the automatic updater, contains changes from previous release to this release. - Changed Files Only:
Complete files, but only those that were changed since previous releases of phpBB 3. This archive contains changed files for every previous release. - Patch Files:
This file contains diffs against the previous phpBB 3 release, which can be applied with the patch utility.
Select the package most suitable for you. We recommend the following methods depending on your situation:
- For new installations you should use the Full Package
- For updates of boards without modifications you can use the Automatic Update Package (guided update) or the Changed Files Only package (manual update).
- For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you can use the Patch Files Package.
- International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction with the Code Changes to better support users with problematic conflicts during their update process or to help them update code sections.
- If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files Package to update all of your client installations.
Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!
Download Locations
The download is of course available on our downloads page.
Our release archive provides all packages we build. If you do not find your desired package you can probably find it in the release archive.
These are the files with their md5 sums:
phpBB-3.0.9.zip (Full Package)
md5sum: fb8025a51a3c756fe6151a6b0beeefd4
phpBB-3.0.9.tar.bz2 (Full Package)
md5sum: 1baa799b0d10b0df794a5a408ff80e59
phpBB-3.0.9-patch.zip (Patch Files)
md5sum: caad242273bbbfbea86cd00a16239e70
phpBB-3.0.9-patch.tar.bz2 (Patch Files)
md5sum: 48b1fdd64658d12bf58ccca9e105277a
phpBB-3.0.9-files.zip (Changed Files)
md5sum: 2305fea2749bd09da17365dbbe0f29f0
phpBB-3.0.9-files.tar.bz2 (Changed Files)
md5sum: 8fb9cdceafef9ddf68e011611e817563
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9.zip (Automatic Update Package from 3.0.8)
md5sum: e5648147787c5413783bf81dea2c4fc7
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9.tar.bz2 (Automatic Update Package from 3.0.8)
md5sum: 6d7996e6fea4fea927998ee2f0346c9e
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-codechanges.zip (Language and Style Code Changes)
md5sum: c4ac13ae38132c88293470d1c7a9d1ca
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-codechanges.tar.bz2 (Language and Style Code Changes)
md5sum: cce76d34eda103b26edb0807c2a6184f
phpBB-3.0.9.webpi.zip (Microsoft Web Platform Installer Package)
md5sum: 3f0a5416a1a1ad83729e047ecf8a7ee3
Download & Documentation
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