Het ontwikkelteam achter phpBB heeft zijn gelijknamige open-source forumsoftware bijgewerkt naar versie 2.0.15. Op deze pagina kunnen de verschillende downloads worden gevonden. Het programma maakt gebruik van PHP en MySQL om berichten op te slaan, te bewaren en op te halen. Naast MySQL worden ook PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 en Microsoft Access als databasesoftware ondersteund. Het changelog van deze release laat de volgende veranderingen zien:
The changelog (contained within this release) is as follows:
- Fixed moderator status removal in groupcp.php
- Removed newlines after ?> on some files
- Added admin re-authentication (admin needs to login seperatly to access the ACP)
- Fixed vulnerability in url/bbcode handling functions
- Fixed issue in admin/admin_forums.php
- Suppressed warning message for fsockopen in /includes/smtp.php
- Fixed bug in admin/admin_smilies.php (admin is able to add empty smilies)
- Adjusted documents to reflect the urgent need to update the files too (not only running the database update script)
- Updated the readme file
- Added one new language variable
- Added general error if accessing profile for a non-existent user
- Changed session id generation to be more unique
- Fixed bug in highlight code to escape characters correctly
- Reversed the 2.0.14 fix for postgresql because it produced more problems than it solves.
- Added reference to article written by R45 about case-sensitivity in postgreSQL to the readme file
- Fixed bypassing of validate_username on registration
- Empty url/img bbcodes no longer get parsed