The fourth 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
RC3 to RC4 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-RC4.zip
md5sum: df64c20778fc8d186998fbdfec053b86
phpBB-3.0.9-RC4.webpi.zip
md5sum: 63f137b7f559506bf2ab1a00326dacd6
phpBB-3.0.9-RC4.tar.bz2
md5sum: d92d4923c59e81cf6f5d2b3873663c70
phpBB-3.0.9-RC4-patch.zip
md5sum: 792ded1477473623b41e249b57b4fb4f
phpBB-3.0.9-RC4-patch.tar.bz2
md5sum: 5bbdabe2acae76a4ebd3f8ccae695da6
phpBB-3.0.9-RC4-files.zip
md5sum: a926223706b4ad0a719df267468dd54f
phpBB-3.0.9-RC4-files.tar.bz2
md5sum: 9a7a97dfc2c5ac0382e228dff65001ec
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3_to_3.0.9-RC4.zip
md5sum: 5fafd7246e94c8c799d73efd80a4f271
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3_to_3.0.9-RC4.tar.bz2
md5sum: 519a8e7e30e367f806734ce59fcda608
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3_to_3.0.9-RC4-codechanges.zip
md5sum: 73acd0d017d3eecadafacd990e205143
phpBB-3.0.9-RC3_to_3.0.9-RC4-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: 7d61527013a73c31ce7aa9ae835bb900
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2_to_3.0.9-RC4.zip
md5sum: 6427a08807e9ab1cddaad3b6b16fe19e
phpBB-3.0.9-RC2_to_3.0.9-RC4.tar.bz2
md5sum: 00805d150ccec52cc8cd209203653bc3
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC4.zip
md5sum: 4bb0cee2282a72da86b2a05cdb266fc1
phpBB-3.0.9-RC1_to_3.0.9-RC4.tar.bz2
md5sum: ace4c0e259650348e3d1951983516cd7
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC4.zip
md5sum: 0331eeac53b4f13cff4b98b78e335dcc
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC4.tar.bz2
md5sum: 4fe03ff4494956d476a60b1531401026
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC4-codechanges.zip
md5sum: 08907cd56bc02216d2893b8c8780699e
phpBB-3.0.8_to_3.0.9-RC4-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: df71b4e03ceeb787dd254b613700dfb7
*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
