We are happy to announce the availability of the first release candidate of phpBB 3.0.12 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/issues/?filter=11000
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 3.0.12 is a maintenance release fixing a various bugs but not adding any new features. We have updated the list of bots/spiders, improved compatability with recent PHP versions further, and support MySQL fulltext search on InnoDB for MySQL versions making it available. The custom BBCode token LOCAL_URL has been modified to operate closer to its description. If you have any custom BBCodes using the token you should test if the custom BBCode still functions correctly or if you need to replace the token with the new RELATIVE_URL token.
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.
- 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-3.0.12-RC1.zip
md5sum: 4ffd9ee7dd37abed71cdc6c59220d569
phpBB-3.0.12-RC1.webpi.zip
md5sum: fa6e14811933eec090c4f7e9d411e985
phpBB-3.0.12-RC1.tar.bz2
md5sum: 14cca300aee488eb97f52f6e01d891de
phpBB-3.0.12-RC1-patch.zip
md5sum: 2e903675981c7d40a8f9d44c59cd4320
phpBB-3.0.12-RC1-patch.tar.bz2
md5sum: 021120da27f2c46bfab55c2396aaeb64
phpBB-3.0.12-RC1-files.zip
md5sum: baf898c8eb3c4348d276ca3ecd6c36a2
phpBB-3.0.12-RC1-files.tar.bz2
md5sum: 086157e6d0c1f4cf4386fdc44e933ea4
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12-RC1.zip
md5sum: bc15100efdbcd58fdc8a054e8b68c0c4
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12-RC1.tar.bz2
md5sum: 98fb26fce2a845596a3cf976aee63983
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12-RC1-codechanges.zip
md5sum: c8cf124d91940ed10e5eb40e6626c704
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12-RC1-codechanges.tar.bz2
md5sum: 496ecf9891ce2bc1f1300e54ca4e4b07
*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
- phpBB Projects page @ ohloh
- phpBB 3 Documentation
- phpBB 3 support forum
- phpBB 3 bug tracker
- phpBB on GitHub
- phpBB Code Wiki
Thank you for testing the new release,
the phpBB Team
