phpBB 3.0.9 Release Candidate 2 published

[naderman]

Greetings community!

After a few problems with the first release candidate of phpBB 3.0.9 we have published a second release candidate aimed at experienced users in an effort to increase the quality of final releases.

Please scrutinise this release in-depth and report issues to the bug tracker. Critical bugs halting the board's operation should be reported immediately. Feel free to contact developers directly about such problems.

We recommend that international support sites update their sites to RC2 too. We are able to provide direct support to them within our international support sites forums.

Tagging/Reviewing fixes

On our tracker QA team members can mark bug fixes as verified. Use the "Verify Solution" button from the button set at the top of the ticket. Of course prior to clicking you should have properly checked whether the bug was really fixed. Comment on the respective bug if you find problems so the fix can be corrected.

You can find a list of unverified fixes at http://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/IssueNa ... stId=10200

Language Packs and Styles

We already gave out instructions to language pack authors to let them update their language packs in a timely manner. The changes are provided with the code changes package (see downloads section below). Style authors should also download the code changes package and adjust their styles accordingly. Please post within our Styles forums if you have questions or encounter problems.

New features, changes, bug fixes

phpBB 3.0.9 is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs as well as adding some minor new features. It contains two new caching backends: WinCache for Windows servers and a Redis backend. The number of login attempts without having to solve an anti-spambot task can now be limited by IP. Username and password fields are no longer incorrectly autocompleted in the ACP.

The full changelog is available at http://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/Release ... ctId=10010 or in the changelog file within the docs folder contained in the package which includes previous releases. The changelog from RC1 to RC2 is available at http://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/Release ... ctId=10010

Available packages

If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" or "patch" method for updating.

• Full Package:
  Full phpBB 3 source code and english language files.
• Automatic Update Package:
  Update package for the automatic updater, contains changes from previous release to this release.
• Changed Files Only:
  Complete files, but only those that were changed since previous releases of phpBB 3. This archive contains changed files for every previous release.
• Patch Files:
  This file contains diffs against the previous phpBB 3 release, which can be applied with the patch utility.
• Code Changes Package:
  This package contains MOD instructions for changes to the following sections: Language changes, prosilver style changes and subsilver2 style changes.

Select the package most suitable for you. We recommend the following methods depending on your situation:

• For new installations you should use the Full Package
• For updates of boards without modifications you can use the Automatic Update Package (guided update) or the Changed Files Only package (manual update).
• For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you can use the Patch Files Package.
• Style Authors and Translators may use the Code Changes Package to update their styles or language packs.
• International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction with the Code Changes to better support users with problematic conflicts during their update process or to help them update code sections.
• If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files Package to update all of your client installations.

Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation, updates or conversions!

Download Locations

The download is of course available on our downloads page.
Our release archive provides all packages we build. If you do not find your desired package you can probably find it in the release archive.

These are the files with their md5 sums:

phpBB-3.0.9-RC2.zip
md5sum: b0dcfc0a4a1bc95cc3d51dde130f1f1e
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2.webpi.zip
md5sum: 618eadab61f383c96a070beffe335d84
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2.tar.bz2
md5sum: d63ea37856005798f7fb77de7199d26c
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2-patch.zip
md5sum: 944a04de88b8f443d511df390f81f3ab
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2-patch.tar.bz2
md5sum: 30e6ed9dd151a33be73f73fc5e45eda2
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2-files.zip
md5sum: d6208589a0eb567ed06cd08f33819ed4
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2-files.tar.bz2
md5sum: 30b3a4f9f16f1cba6f4866ccb9a12489
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC2.zip
md5sum: 64b584e95957b2dd41a58825f69db113
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC2.tar.bz2
md5sum: d905617b3802924f06b1001a2e076fdd
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC2-codechanges.zip
md5sum: 643cbe96d7483c8a4576711c4576d5e8
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC2-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: c5bf765fac71c8b558ce001fa2347822
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC2.zip
md5sum: 2a282d031ad6265718e12d180a7c0eb9
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC2.tar.bz2
md5sum: f7a2ca50f8f7eb816e8fc1db91571217
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC2-codechanges.zip
md5sum: c5bf765fac71c8b558ce001fa2347822
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC2-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: bbeac392a65ac551d1a7a762f2054275

*IMPORTANT*

To correctly perform an update, do not forget to re-enable the PHPBB_QA constant in your includes/constants.php file. Otherwise you are not prompted for an update in the ACP and the automatic update will eventually fail.

Download & Documentation

• phpBB Downloads
• Area51
• phpBB 3 Documentation
• phpBB 3 support forum
• phpBB 3 bug tracker
• phpBB Code Forge
• phpBB Code Wiki

Thank you for testing the new release,
the phpBB Team

[Sierron]

That was fast

[Prosk8er]

anyone get this

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 347: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 348: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 349: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 350: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)

after install finishes just be4 clicking the login button? noticed this on RC1 also

[Meis2M]

very good. i tested it i have no problem. thanks

[naderman]

anyone get this

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 347: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 348: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 349: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 350: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)

after install finishes just be4 clicking the login button? noticed this on RC1 also

Can you report this as a bug on the ticket tracker please? http://tracker.phpbb.com - thank you.

We did find a flaw with using the automatic updater to update to RC2, so we will release another RC3 very soon.

[Prosk8er]

anyone get this

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[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 347: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 348: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 349: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)
[phpBB Debug] PHP Notice: in file /install/index.php on line 350: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /includes/functions.php:3764)

after install finishes just be4 clicking the login button? noticed this on RC1 also

Can you report this as a bug on the ticket tracker please? http://tracker.phpbb.com - thank you.

We did find a flaw with using the automatic updater to update to RC2, so we will release another RC3 very soon.

it was a fresh install. and i submitted it http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10225

[Danielx64]

Please excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question:

Code Changes Package:
This package contains MOD instructions for changes to the following sections: Language changes, prosilver style changes and subsilver2 style changes.

Is there any way of getting the code edit for all the php files? For example open index.php, find x replace y, find d add before c and so on? Or is there too many changes?

[DavidIQ]

Please excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question:

Code Changes Package:
This package contains MOD instructions for changes to the following sections: Language changes, prosilver style changes and subsilver2 style changes.

Is there any way of getting the code edit for all the php files? For example open index.php, find x replace y, find d add before c and so on? Or is there too many changes?

That would be a ridiculously long file. You're better off doing a diff between the changed files package and the current release, 3.0.8

[Noxwizard]

We've generated those packages in the past. It takes quite a bit of time to make sure that it's correct, but the main issue is the size. The MODX file is usually several megabytes in size and causes browsers to hang for several minutes before they finish parsing it. File diffs will be posted at http://www.phpbb.com/support/code-changes/ when it's fully released, but the PHP code change packages were dropped some time ago.

[Danielx64]

Please excuse me if I'm asking a stupid question:

Code Changes Package:
This package contains MOD instructions for changes to the following sections: Language changes, prosilver style changes and subsilver2 style changes.

Is there any way of getting the code edit for all the php files? For example open index.php, find x replace y, find d add before c and so on? Or is there too many changes?

That would be a ridiculously long file. You're better off doing a diff between the changed files package and the current release, 3.0.8

That the same as downloading the updated files package, upload the install folder and let the installer edit the files?

We've generated those packages in the past. It takes quite a bit of time to make sure that it's correct, but the main issue is the size. The MODX file is usually several megabytes in size and causes browsers to hang for several minutes before they finish parsing it. File diffs will be posted at http://www.phpbb.com/support/code-changes/ when it's fully released, but the PHP code change packages were dropped some time ago.

What about using automod to install the code changes? Then anything that fail I can just open up my text editor and made the required changes.

I'm asking because I just started a project for an intranet and a large chunk of phpbb have already been edited/hacded with mods and custon written code