The third and hopefully final release candidate for 3.0.9 has been released. Release candidates are 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.
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 in the changelog file within the docs folder contained in the package which includes previous releases. Alternatively you can view it online:
3.0.8 to RC1 http://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/Release ... ctId=10010
RC1 to RC2 http://tracker.phpbb.com/secure/Release ... ctId=10010
RC2 to RC3 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.
- 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.
Download Locations
Our release archive provides all packages we build.
These are the files with their md5 sums:
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3.zip
md5sum: a37b4c9f7a8b89e5fc2c19220db09062
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3.webpi.zip
md5sum: 0672803bd4f529ebb5ce14d67b4fa796
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3.tar.bz2
md5sum: 4c6069c73a84e4574a5a4bccf419c6cc
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3-patch.zip
md5sum: d1d54fe2bb9ff9a5175db4d46815b5ad
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3-patch.tar.bz2
md5sum: 9e1ce183c03a38782cfc5cd6992664b7
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3-files.zip
md5sum: 2184a1216375c963bad2a84efdc9d0d2
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3-files.tar.bz2
md5sum: a19544e9e958f0178ebfeb01fd3c45a5
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2_to_3.0.9-RC3.zip
md5sum: 7f231b29fd10771e7850ce36cd8cc2f4
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2_to_3.0.9-RC3.tar.bz2
md5sum: 7f31ff600cacebab9e0317c88f26d40a
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2_to_3.0.9-RC3-codechanges.zip
md5sum: 979e0eef768b150122f8cd076a1cfcf0
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2_to_3.0.9-RC3-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: 52fe605e08fb5bb81e10fb275353b6c4
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC3.zip
md5sum: ceaee2fdaddfc42d16c7ab8c1d66a608
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC3.tar.bz2
md5sum: 2d232fe18c470a832c74851a363ed78f
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC3.zip
md5sum: dfd88fc0101131af7e95395cb02752b5
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC3.tar.bz2
md5sum: 5ab1058922397ee6f58e7a021252d631
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC3-codechanges.zip
md5sum: 3c7ecad3e5d993a8ef1330797d1ef9d5
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC3-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: 722192780eceb62641623e8423641908
*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
