Board Version on footer

[Dragosvr92]

Hey, i was wondering..
What if you include the phpBB version in the footer, so that the users know, that the webmaster cares to update it..

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People should be gaven a system alike the debugging one, so that they will disable it or not.

[ameeck]

phpBB featured the board version in the footer in the early 2.0.x series. The primary reason to remove it was security. There were some nasty version specific exploits for phpBB and one could find vulnerable boards by a simple Google search query. You can still do this in phpBB (for example by searching for version specific text or files in the DOCS/ directory), but to a much lesser extent.

Even if you would dismiss the security argument, why should the users know what version is the board running? That's the sole responsibility of the board owner or administrator and he gets to say what software he uses and when or wheter he updates it or not.

[callumacrae]

phpBB featured the board version in the footer in the early 2.0.x series. The primary reason to remove it was security. There were some nasty version specific exploits for phpBB and one could find vulnerable boards by a simple Google search query. You can still do this in phpBB (for example by searching for version specific text or files in the DOCS/ directory), but to a much lesser extent.

Even if you would dismiss the security argument, why should the users know what version is the board running? That's the sole responsibility of the board owner or administrator and he gets to say what software he uses and when or wheter he updates it or not.

This.

[DarkBeing]

What ameeck said!

[Dragosvr92]

Well i know two ways of getting someone's phpBB version.
And i know how to add the Version myself, i made a MOD Which displays the version.

[callumacrae]

And i know how to add the Version myself, i made a MOD Which displays the version.

I believe that if you submitted it to the modification database, it would be denied as a security problem. Don't quote me on that though, I could be wrong.

[Oleg]

What if you include the phpBB version in the footer, so that the users know, that the webmaster cares to update it..

There are a couple of problems with this line of thinking:

1. There may not be any security issues in the old version. For example, 3.0.7-pl1 was released to address an issue with feeds, but if a board does not use feeds it would not be vulnerable to it thus it may stay at 3.0.7.

2. Webmaster may have applied relevant security patches without updating the whole board.

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[Dragosvr92]

@callum: i think you are wrong, i made the MOD By just copying the edits just for that, that were in a MOD Which shows most of the forums statistics, which was already in the MODDB.

I said to make it for my board, cut i wasnt sure where it would fit and had other things to do than that
Oleg, im not entirely sure what are you saying.

I think it might be an idea on showing the version, only if it is the latest phpbb version.

[Arty]

I think its a bad idea:

• Security reasons mentioned above.
• Footer already has a lot of stuff in it, especially on modded forums.
• Nobody really cares what version you are running, so why show it?

[Dragosvr92]

Well, Feedback was given. Nevermind.