It was way back in the beginning of December 2003 with what was then phpBB 2.1 Milestone1, over the course of 4 and a bit years with the announcement on the 14th of January, 2005 by Paul “psoTFX” Owen (ex-Lead Developer) that phpBB 2.2 had evolved to become phpBB 3.0, and now… phpBB have reached yet another milestone, phpBB 3.0 Release Candidate 1, the very first version marking the end of the Beta phase and a sufficiently hardy release suitable for live installation!
phpBB’s Development Team Leader, Meik “Acyd Burn” Sievertsen, announced the release like so:
We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 RC1 package. This is the first release candidate which is meant to become the Gold release if no more bugs or problems arise. Of course there may be more than one release candidate.
With this release we will give full support, allow uploading language packs as well as modifications and styles. Please note that during the first few weeks support questions may not be answered as fast as with the 2.0.x line. We also only give support to those having a clean RC1 installation, previous conversions or updates will not be supported. We encourage only those running the release candidate wanting to test out the new version, it is still recommended to wait for the full release; after all this is a release candidate.
Personally, I’m most excited about the fact this is the first public release which bundles the über-secret and outright über-sexy prosilver style for the user facing forums and the back-end ACP, which has had a tantelising “Development of” page over at phpBB.com since the site re-launch, where the only way to show how awesome it is short of printing screenshots out and wrapping ones naked body with them, is by the way of a good old fashioned Photogasm™!:
Those of you now bursting for some relief of sexual tension, can head over to the download page and test drive (or indeed start a brand new community!) using the phpBB 3.0 Release Candidate 1 package! ;)
For statistics spunky-monkeys, some more goodies for you to peruse:
- Bug statistics for the timeframe between Beta5 and Release Candidate 1
- Bug statistics since the opening of the bug tracker for phpBB 3.0.x
Summit of Olympus Mons is in sight… onwards phpBB 3.0.0! :D
Congrats, it was worth the wait. I know how much work you put into it, highly appreciated.
Comment by ElbertF — 11:22:08 UTC on the 21st of May, 2007
Don’t forget the rest of the team. ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 00:48:04 UTC on the 22nd of May, 2007
Glad to see it released, you worked hard and I (and probably everybody else) thank you for that,would be happier if you stayed at phpbb ;), still I respect your desicion, best of luck!
Comment by Robbie — 19:55:02 UTC on the 27th of May, 2007
phpBB will managed just fine without me, that is the nature of Opensource projects! :D Anyway, I still have Bertie there as a spy… err, oops, I didn’t say that and you didn’t see anything! :P & ;)
Comment by Jonathan Stanley — 22:18:50 UTC on the 27th of May, 2007
Very nice to see the work grow :D
regards
Comment by Marc — 01:11:09 UTC on the 22nd of July, 2007