New features, changes, bug fixes
The following is a list of major new features implemented in PHPBB 3.0.6:
- Backported 3.2 captcha plugins:
- Classic and GD CAPTCHA
- reCaptcha (based on API from recaptcha.Net by Mike Crawford and Ben Maurer)
- Q&A CAPTCHA
- 3D Wave (by Robert "Xore" Hetzler)
- Introduced new ACM plugins:
- null (to disable caching completely)
- memcache (http://pecl.PHP.Net/package/memcache)
- APC (http://pecl.PHP.Net/package/APC)
- XCache (http://xcache.lighttpd.Net/)
- eAccelerator (http://eaccelerator.Net/)
- ATOM Feeds
- bare-bones Quick Reply editor in vIEwtopic
- Users can report PMs to moderators which are then visible in a new MCP module
- Ability to copy permissions from one forum to several other forums.
- Send statistical information (anonymously) about PHP and phpBB configuration to help improve PHPBB.
The following is a list of minor feature additions to PHPBB 3.0.6:
- Add language selection on the registration terms page
- New groups option to excempt group leaders from group permissions
- New "Newly Registered Users" group for assigning permissions to newly registered users. They will be removed from this group once they reach a defineable amount of posts.
- Ability to define if the "Newly Registered Users" group will be assigned as the default group to newly registered users.
- Add new option to disable avatars board-wide
- Enhance obtain_users_online_string to be able to return user-lists for other session-items
- Add unapproved topic icon for moderators on forum list
- Ability to define minimum number of characters for posts/pms
- Store signature configuration options in database
- Detect when a post has been altered by someone else while editing.
- Add unread posts quick search option
- Add option to disable avatar uploads from remote locations.
- Ability to delete warnings and keep warnings permanently
- Ability to empty a user's outbox from the user ACP quick tools.
- Ability to search ACP / MCP logs
- Parse email text files with the template engine.
- Use email-style quoting when bbcodes are disabled.
- Added new functionality to inactive users module:
- Ability to set users per page.
- Ability to sort by posts/number of reminders/last reminded date.
- Show number of posts and ability to search posts.
- Show number of reminders sent to user.
- Show date of last reminder sent to user.
- Display version check on ACP main page.
- Ability to control the display of custom profile fields on vIEwtopic
- Fallback options for missing language files.
- Separate PM Reply and PM Reply to all in prosilver.
- Place debug notices during captcha rendering in the error log - useful for debugging output already started errors.
- Ability to define constant PHPBB_USE_BOARD_URL_PATH to use board url for images/avatars/ranks/imageset...
- Added function to generate Email hash.
- Style authors are now able to define the default submit button used for form submission on ENTER keypress on forms using more than one. Prosilver uses this for the posting page(s) and registration screen.
- Ability to specify amount of time user is able to delete his last post in topic.
The following is a list of smaller changes implemented in PHPBB 3.0.6:
- submit_post() now accepts force_approved_state key passed to $data to indicate new posts being approved (true) or unapproved (false).
- Change the data format of the default file ACM to be more secure from tampering and have better performance.
- Add index on log_time to the log table to prevent slowdown on boards with many log entrIEs.
- Template engine now permits to a limited extent variable includes.
- Quote BBCode no longer requires the f_reply permission.
- Banning/unbanning users now generates an entry in their user notes
- SmilIEs no longer require the f_bbcode permission.
- Ability to define column split in FAQ/BBCode help
- Changed behaviour of group_create() function to support specifying additional group columns
- Hide avatar when avatar-type is not allowed
- INCLUDEPHP not depending on PHPbb_root_path
- Ability to fetch moderators with get_moderators() even if load_moderators setting is off.
- "Post details" links with image in MCP.
- PM history now only shows PMs of users you currently reply to.
- Show quote button for own PMs in PM history.
- Fetch requested cookie variables directly from cookIE super global.
- Add confirmation for deactivating styles
- Add confirmation for deactivating language packs
- Add confirm-box when deleting permissions
- Add pagination for icons and smilies in the ACP and smilIEs in the smiley popup
- Cache get_username_string() function calls on vIEwtopic.
- Cache version check.
- When creating a new forum without copying permissions, ask again.
- Parse multiline url title for [url] BBCode tag.
- Introduce new parameter to page_header() for forum specific who is online listings.
- Lifted minimum requirement for Firebird DBMS from 2.0+ to 2.1+.
- Unapproved topics can no longer be replIEd to
- Require user to be registered and logged in to search for unread posts if topic read tracking is disabled for guests
- Allow three-digit hex notation in Color BBcode.
- SimplifIEd login_box() and redirection after login. S_LOGIN_ACTION can now be used on every page.
- Do not take edit post time into account for determining permission to delete last post in topic.
- Resize oversized Topic icons
- Banned IPs are now sorted
- PHPBB updater now skips sole whitespace changes. This reduces the chance of conflicts tremendously.
