phpBB 3.0.10 Release Candidate 1 published

[naderman]

Greetings community!

We are happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of phpBB 3.0.10 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 RC1 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=10260

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 3.0.10 is a maintenance release fixing a number of bugs. Most noteworthy a number of moderator controls are now more precisely controlled by specific permissions instead of being available to all moderators. The display of the index page birthday list now also depends on the view profile permission. We have tested phpBB 3.0.10 with the upcoming PHP 5.4 release and made the necessary changes to ensure a smooth upgrade.

The full changelog is available in the changelog file within the docs folder contained in the package which includes previous releases.

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

Our release archive provides all packages we build.

These are the files with their md5 sums:

phpBB-3.0.10-RC1.zip
md5sum: 7290ac4a8a33bf35a1158f3a9606abd6
phpBB-3.0.10-RC1.webpi.zip
md5sum: 9b6e238432d7080f6d507f6260432906
phpBB-3.0.10-RC1.tar.bz2
md5sum: 638eee2cea31653dc1448214a791d4b2
phpBB-3.0.10-RC1-patch.zip
md5sum: 50d7316d0c7af4a9d5cfffe3cdf5a419
phpBB-3.0.10-RC1-patch.tar.bz2
md5sum: 538245993682a8ecb8e0df729299c325
phpBB-3.0.10-RC1-files.zip
md5sum: 551447e3c2d08fd806843b1cdbce9e2a
phpBB-3.0.10-RC1-files.tar.bz2
md5sum: ef01c81b5183e1d992e4442ddd4e7855
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10-RC1.zip
md5sum: c8fa55f152c012c13625c5ee6522829e
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10-RC1.tar.bz2
md5sum: 75970eff32883e3db5f6c6731b5ee061
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10-RC1-codechanges.zip
md5sum: 1bc598f0bf0fc2142ee95419d07c72ef
phpBB-3.0.9_to_3.0.10-RC1-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: 98c6780698b89b0a4c320126da272f4f


*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

[Prosk8er]

awesome gonna go check it out now

[Dragosvr92]

Updated software, doing the style now.

[Dr. Deejay]

Yay! Great news and thanks Going to update my localhost testforum

Edit: Upgrades went fine, thanks for an amazing software!

[Dragosvr92]

Heeey... i see that the A,B,C,D etc selection from the memberlist is removed. Was this replaced by a setting in the ACP and needs reactivation?
If so where. I like that feature enabled.

[Dr. Deejay]

It works fine for me, what style are you using?

[Dragosvr92]

It works fine for me, what style are you using?

Have you upgraded your style to 3.0.10-RC1?

[Noxwizard]

That section was updated to work a bit differently, but it renders exactly the same. Make sure you applied the changes correctly. https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/commit/ ... 3aad5bf1fb

[Dragosvr92]

hmm.... it would seem that the changes for memberlist.php were not done with the autoinstaller.
Is there a manual updater for all php files that have to be changed?

EDIT:
I ran the update process again and its working fine. Probably i extracted the files from the updater as they are named almost the same.

[Jaftica]

Localhost install was a breeze, with 50+ MODS and some snippets installed.

Many thanks for adding the modification I asked for. Yes / No on Restore Database.