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Live information from Simple Machines Community Forum
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PHP security warning
All,
These days a serious security vulnerability has been discovered in PHP, all versions since 8 years ago. The vulnerability has nothing to do with SMF and cannot be addressed by us, because the forum code doesn't even get to be executed. It can only...
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End of life of SMF 1.0
In order to help focus development with the next generation of technologies and the best way to help evolve forum software, the SMF team would like to announce that we will be ending all support for our SMF 1.0 series software as of December 31, 2012. ...
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Simple Machines is expanding
Hello all,
Simple Machines is pleased to announce that smCore project has joined Simple Machines, and will be the core on which SMF 3.0 will be built.
The smCore project will be working to develop a platform for development of future versions of SMF an...
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The New Online Manual has gone "Gold"
After much work and double-checking, the Simple Machines Team is proud to announce that the new Online Manual is out of its testing phase. Now, SMF documentation is kept in our Online Manual, whic...
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Statement regarding SOPA
Dear users and guests,
As some, and hopefully most, of you will know, a bill was introduced to the United States House of Representatives which is called Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Simple Machines would like to make an official stance on this bill....
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SMF 2.0.2 and 1.1.16 critical security patches released
Hello all,
Simple Machines Forum project has released SMF 1.1.16 and SMF 2.0.2 security patches for the SMF community.
Critical security issues have been identified and fixed with this patch, therefore it is highly recommended to make sure you update y...
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We're on Google+
For those who haven't heard, Google finally launched pages for their Google+ social network. Not one to be behind in the social media front, I went ahead and created an SMF page 
http://gplus.to/SimpleMachinesForum
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Server maintenance
Dear users,
We have planned required maintenance to our server infrastructure.
This maintenance causes us to have downtime several times, both short and a bit longer in time.
(Exact timeframe cannot be predicted)
We will of course do our utmost best to...
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Simple Machines Forums attacks
What is happening
Lately, a number of forums have reported experiencing ongoing attacks by malicious users repeatedly hitting their pages, especially the login pages. There seem to be several different types of attacks ongoin...
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Now Announcing the Simple Machines Wiki (beta)!
Simple Machines is now proudly harnessing the power and ability of our community in order to assist with the work of documenting Simple Machines Forum. The current documentation was becoming outdated and incomplete with development and user changes. It...
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SimpleMachines Server issues
Dear SMF users and visitors,
Over the past few days, and currently still, SimpleMachines.org is under a low level DDoS attack. The server team has been working at best effort on keeping the site stable and running smoothly but unfortunately we still ha...
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Simple Machines forms as an NPO
Announcement:
The Simple Machines Team, the group of volunteers that coordinate SMF® development and support, today announces the launch of a new organization that will continue to promote the development, distribution and adop...
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A reminder to update your email and passwords
Hello community,
The Simple Machines Team would like to ask all of our users to please check their profiles and update their email addresses. By keeping this information updated, we can continue to contact you with notifications regarding updates ...
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SMF Big Boards
SMF has an exclusive board for forum owners who have over 500,000 posts where owners can talk and share tips about how they manage such large boards from both a technical and administrative angle.
Currently we've been searching for sites that meet the ...
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SMF is searching for translators!
Thanks to a very active community, Simple Machines Forum is currently available in over 40 languages. Even though we're proud of that fact, we continue to search for ways to improve the quali...
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New private beta download policy for new Charter Members.
Dear Charter Members,
Due to some recent issues that we have had with certain new members, we have added a restriction on our private beta downloads. Now you you must be a Charter Member for a week before you can download private beta releases....
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SMF's ban policy and how to "appeal" it.
Heya, folks! We've had a few people banned recently, and there's really no single place for cohesive ban guidelines, so we thought we'd share some guidelines and suggestions with y'all.
First off, getting banned here takes quite a bit of effort. The ...
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Forum etiquette and behavior
I wanted to make a post to remind our users and visitors to the site about forum etiquette and behavior here at Simple Machines. While we try to keep an open mind and we try to keep things lighthearted we do need to keep things in line with the agreeme...
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