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Sorry, submitted my post prematurely. While the change is present in the master branch and should be in the next major release (4.0), 3.3 was not branched from master directly so the change was not included.

3.3 was released on January 6, 2020.

In favor of dropping our DBAL for Doctrine's as well. Less code to maintain, load and worry about.

Doesn't sound like a feature that needs to be in the core. For phpBB 2.0 and, later on, 3.0 someone created a MOD since it was a niche type of feature that relatively few admins needed.

This isn't anything phpBB core has to do. If someone wants to set up a system wherein all sites under it share the same phpBB code base and set of extensions they can design/build something on their own...or just use any of the myriad of such sites that already exist.

The Customise tab has a "Extensions catalog" link in the current master branch so not sure what you're looking at.

Pretty sure the Customise tab lets you install extensions from there in 4.0.

You didn't really have to go through the trouble. What 4.0 currently looks like is what you see here on Area 51.

The reason is simple really: 3.3 is feature frozen. The next feature release will be 4.0.

Nope, you covered it (re-hashed everything) nicely. You're always welcome to use the available extensions to add the functionality so there's basically absolutely nothing preventing you from easily adding the functionality you want to your board now. Otherwise such a feature wouldn't see the light o...