Let’s do the Bertie dance! :D It’s been a long 2 months since the last beta, though today we’re proud to announce the availability of phpBB 3.0Beta5! This fifth beta release marks the last leg of the beta testing phase as the next milestone shall (hopefully) be Release Candidate 1, which will result in the first version of the long awaited phpBB 3.0 that will be suitable for production environments. Patience is Virtue!
New for Beta5 is the UCF, which will be used for converting non-phpBB 3.0.x to the 3.0.x format. Right now, we’ve only got the phpBB 2.0.x module bundled for testing though modules for other forums systems will follow once we hit phpBB 3.0RC1… so fear not, you will be able to migrate from Simple Machines Forum (1.0.x), Invision Power Board (1.0.x & 2.0.x), UBB.threads (6.0.x) and others to the awesomeness incarnate that is phpBB 3.0.x! ;)
Next up is the re-worked permissions interface within the ACP which is cleaner with less clutter and yet provide more visual feedback when the various settings are changed. Also, the i18n/L10n community will want to familiarise themselves with the language system so that they can provide translations via the new language packaging system with the roll-out of phpBB 3.0 on phpBB.com.
Advanced users are encouraged to download the beta, give it a good thrashing and getting those bug reports down. I’m particularly interested in bugs related to right-to-left scripts such as عربي (Arabic), עִבְרִית (Hebrew) or اردو (Urdu) since I’ve checked in changes which should hopefully resolve all layout issues on the user-facing forums and back-end ACP.
Happy beta testing and onwards to Release Candidate 1! ;)
OH MY GAWD!
Comment by The DareDevil — 02:24:01 UTC on the 29th of January, 2007
You converting bp6.com to phpBB3 any time soon then Derek? :P
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 02:29:03 UTC on the 29th of January, 2007
Absolutely!
Comment by The DareDevil — 02:20:11 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
Good lad! ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 02:24:49 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
How are you doing?
Comment by The DareDevil — 02:26:10 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
Busy with phpBB things and being very poor (lack of money as opposed to sickly)! :P
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 02:28:39 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
Poor because you’re spending all your time with phpBB? :)
Comment by The DareDevil — 02:35:19 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
Sounds about right, along with trying to keep this site running! ;) & :P
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 02:38:04 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
I’ll talk to you in IRC (or MSN?)
Comment by The DareDevil — 02:56:49 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
It’s 3am here, so I’ll be doing the sleep thing soon. :P Pity I don’t run a personal forum any more and just have this blog (and gallery). :P
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 03:00:25 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007
Sweet dreams then! :)
Comment by The DareDevil — 03:11:00 UTC on the 31st of January, 2007