phpBB Developers: bantu (Andreas Fischer)

EXreaction (Nathan Guse)

imkingdavid (David King)

nickvergessen (Joas Schilling)

Contributions by: leviatan21 (Gabriel Vazquez)

Raimon (Raimon Meuldijk)

dhn (Dominik Dröscher) [05/2007 - 01/2011]

GrahamJE (Graham Eames) [09/2005 - 11/2006]

kellanved (Henry Sudhof) [04/2007 - 03/2011]

rxu (Ruslan Uzdenov) [04/2010 - 12/2012]

TerraFrost (Jim Wigginton) [04/2009 - 01/2011]

ToonArmy (Chris Smith) [06/2008 - 11/2011]

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<li><a href="#changelog">Changelog</a>

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<li><a href="#v3010">Changes since 3.0.10</a></li>

<li><a href="#v309">Changes since 3.0.9</a></li>

<li><a href="#v308">Changes since 3.0.8</a></li>

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<h4>Bug</h4>

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<li>[<a href="http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10909">PHPBB3-10909</a>] - Update Travis Test Configuration: Travis no longer supports PHP 5.3.2</li>

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<h4>Bug</h4>

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<li>[<a href="http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10480">PHPBB3-10480</a>] - Automate changelog building</li>

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<h4> Bug

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<h4> Security

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<li>[Sec] Do not expose forum content of forums with ACL entries but no actual permission in ATOM Feeds. (Bug #58595)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Allow ban reason and length to be selected and copied in ACP and subsilver2 MCP. (Bug #51095)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Allow whitespaces in avatar gallery names. (Bug #44955)</li>

<li>[Feature] Send anonymous statistical information to phpBB on installation and update (optional).</li>

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<li>[Fix] Delete user entry from ban list table upon user deletion (Bug #40015 - Patch by TerraFrost)</li>

<li>[Sec] Only use forum id supplied for posting if global announcement detected. (Reported by nickvergessen)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Allow mixed-case template directories to be inherited (Bug #36725)</li>

<li>[Sec] Ask for forum password if post within passworded forum quoted in private message. (Reported by nickvergessen)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Correctly set topic starter if first post in topic removed (Bug #30575 - Patch by blueray2048)</li>

<li>[Sec Precaution] Stricter validation of the HTTP_HOST header (Thanks to Techie-Micheal et al for pointing out possible issues in derived code)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Ability to set permissions on non-mysql dbms (Bug #24955)</li>

<li>[Sec] Only allow urls gone through redirect() being used within login_box(). (thanks nookieman)</li>

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<li>[Change] Validate birthdays (Bug #15004)</li>

<li>[Fix] Find and display colliding usernames correctly when converting from one database to another (Bug #23925)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Cleaned usernames contain only single spaces, so &quot;a_name&quot; and &quot;a__name&quot; are treated as the same name (Bug #15634)</li>

<li>[Fix] Call garbage_collection() within database updater to correctly close connections (affects Oracle for example)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Fixed MSSQL related bug in the update system</li>

<li>[Fix] No duplication of active topics (Bug #15474)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Submitting language changes using acp_language (Bug #14736)</li>

<li>[Fix] Able to request new password (Bug #14743)</li>

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<li>[Feature] Removing constant PHPBB_EMBEDDED in favor of using an exit_handler(); the constant was meant to achive this more or less.</li>

<li>[Sec] New password hashing mechanism for storing passwords (#i42)</li>

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<li>[Fix] MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite related database fixes (Bug #13862)</li>

<li>[Fix] odbc_autocommit causing existing result sets to be dropped (Bug #14182)</li>

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<li>[Fix] Fixing some subsilver2 and prosilver style issues</li>

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<li>[Fix] Re-allow searching within the memberlist</li>

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<li>[Fix] (X)HTML issues within the templates (Bug #11255, #11255)</li>

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<h1>Readme</h1>

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<li><a href="#status">Status of this version</a></li>

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<li><a href="#securitybugs">Security related bugs</a></li>

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<p>Users of phpBB 3.0 and 3.1 Beta versions cannot directly update.</p>

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<li>Updates from phpBB 3.0 Beta versions to phpBB 3.0 RC1 and higher</li>

<li>Updates from phpBB 3.1 Beta versions to phpBB 3.1 RC1 and higher</li>

<li>Updates from phpBB 3.0 RC1 and 3.1 RC1 to the latest version</li>

<li>Note: if using the <em>Automatic Update Package</em>, updates are supported from phpBB 3.0.2 onward. To update a pre-3.0.2 installation, first update to 3.0.2 and then update to the current version.</li>

<li>Conversions from phpBB 2.0.x to the latest version</li>

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<p>For more information about language packs, please see: <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/languages/">http://www.phpbb.com/languages/</a></p>

<p>Installation of these packages is straightforward: simply download the required language pack, uncompress (unzip) it and via FTP transfer the included <code>language</code> and <code>styles</code> folders to the root of your board installation. The language can then be installed via the Administration Control Panel of your board: <code>System tab -&gt; General Tasks -&gt; Language packs</code>. A more detailed description of the process is in the Knowledge Base article, <a href="http://www.phpbb.com/kb/article/how-to-install-a-language-pack/">How to Install a Language Pack</a>.</p>

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<a name="docs"></a><h3>3.i. phpBB3 Documentation</h3>

<p><a href="http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/3.0/">http://www.phpbb.com/support/documentation/3.0/</a></p>

<a name="kb"></a><h3>3.ii. Knowledge Base</h3>

<p><a href="http://www.phpbb.com/community/">http://www.phpbb.com/community/</a></p>

<a name="irc"></a><h3>3.iv Internet Relay Chat</h3>

<p>The relevant database type/version is listed within the administration control panel.</p>

<p>If you create a patch, it is very much appreciated (but not required) if you follow the phpBB coding guidelines. Please note that the coding guidelines are somewhat different between different versions of phpBB. For phpBB 3.1.x the coding guidelines may be found here: <a href="http://area51.phpbb.com/docs/31x/coding-guidelines.html">http://area51.phpbb.com/docs/31x/coding-guidelines.html</a></p>

<p>This list is not complete but does represent those bugs which may affect users on a wider scale. Other bugs listed in the tracker have typically been shown to be limited to certain setups or methods of installation, updating and/or conversions.</p>

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<li>Smilies placed directly after bbcode tags will not get parsed. Smilies always need to be separated by spaces.</li>

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<p>phpBB 3.1.x takes advantage of new features added in PHP 5.3. We recommend that you upgrade to the latest stable release of PHP5 to run phpBB. The minimum version required is PHP 5.3.3.</p>

<p>This board has been developed and tested under Linux and Windows (amongst others) running Apache using MySQL 3.23, 4.x, 5.x, MSSQL Server 2000, PostgreSQL 8.x, Oracle 8, SQLite 2 and Firebird. Versions of PHP used range from 5.3.x to 5.4.x without problem.</p>

<h4>Login checks/redirection: </h4>

<p>To show a forum login box use <code>login_forum_box($forum_data)</code>, else use the <code>login_box()</code> function.</p>

<p>The <code>login_box()</code> function can have a redirect as the first parameter. As a thumb of rule, specify an empty string if you want to redirect to the users current location, else do not add the <code>$SID</code> to the redirect string (for example within the ucp/login we redirect to the board index because else the user would be redirected to the login screen).</p>

<h4>Sensitive Operations: </h4>

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