I shall briefly unlurk to announce the availability of the 2nd release milestone in the form of phpBB 3.0Beta2! It’s been a very long road of 4 years and 105 days (if I’ve done my Maths correctly) to get this far on the phpBB Teams’ collective baby.
Since Beta1’s release on the 17th of June 2006, the community have spotted ~267 bugs which have been fixed by the Development Team for this new release plus increasing compatibility with more esoteric server configurations out there in the wild.
For those advanced users that want to play with beta code are welcome to head over the to the Development page and grab Beta2 though be aware there is neither an upgrade from the previous Beta1 or the current stable line by the way of phpBB 2.0.21, where the latter is the only option for those requiring to create a new community now.
Aside from beta testing phpBB’s Next Big Thing™, you can support us (and a whole host of other Opensource projects) by participating in “Rackathon 2006” over at OSUOSL. ;)
that is really good, but surely it lacks in features ( some ). i agree that phpbb was made for simplicity , could have added some nifty features required my many.
Comment by vinoth — 13:19:41 UTC on the 3rd of September, 2006
“that is really good, but surely it lacks in features ( some ). i agree that phpbb was made for simplicity , could have added some nifty features required my many.”
And yet there are those who say phpbBB3 is too bloated :)
It’s important to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect product. Different features will appeal to different people. Something that you think is absolutely necessary, I will never use.
And therein lies the beauty of MODs :)
Comment by Marshalrusty — 23:48:36 UTC on the 18th of September, 2006
I’m looking forward to the first RC with code changes, perhaps we will get a nice “olympus” christmas present :)
Comment by Martin — 10:30:15 UTC on the 11th of October, 2006
I hope the olympia would be finally release till the begin of april.
There’ some few functions, that will make it seriosly a good forum.
Comment by GWPool Renault — 14:28:58 UTC on the 11th of March, 2007
All right, where do i find a list of fixed problems?
Comment by BMW — 09:25:16 UTC on the 12th of March, 2007