Software-update: phpBB 3.1.0

De final release van phpBB versie 3.1.0 is uitgebracht. Met dit programma is het mogelijk om een webforum te maken. PhpBB wordt onder de gpl-licentie beschikbaar gesteld en maakt gebruik van php en een databaseprogramma om berichten op te slaan. Naast MySQL worden ook PostgreSQL, Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server en SQLite als databasesoftware ondersteund. Versie 3.1.0 bevat een groot aantal veranderingen voor zowel gebruikers en admins als ontwikkelaars. Uitgebreide informatie over die veranderingen is op deze pagina te vinden. De release notes voor deze uitgave zien er als volgt uit:

phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus Feature Release Published

Today is a big day for the entire phpBB community and we hope you're excited! With the help of hundreds of volunteers, we have created the best and most modern version of phpBB yet: 3.1 Ascraeus. It features many improvements for users, administrators, and developers alike. Its new responsive theme takes phpBB into the modern mobile world, OAuth logins and Gravatars improve phpBB's integration into the social web, and a new notification system makes it easy to keep apprised of all that's going on.

With phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus' extension system, you can easily customize and extend your forum's functionality without modifying source code. The extension system makes updating phpBB and 3rd party code a breeze. Our Extensions Team is also actively developing a set of officially supported extensions, explanding upon phpBB's already rich feature-set with some separately maintained popular options. For example custom pages, Google Analytics integration, and detailed board rules.

We have been hard at work to ensure 3.1 Ascraeus is also the most stable and secure release of phpBB. A professional security audit performed by SektionEins found phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus to be solid, due to the examplary execution of strict coding guidelines. The well tested and widely used Symfony components have replaced some of the underlying foundations of phpBB to let us focus our efforts on providing the best forum experience imaginable.

Check out further highlights of the new version on our Ascraeus Launch Page or a more detailed breakdown on our Features Page. As always, phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus and update packages for previous versions are available in the downloads section.