Here goes the 2nd and hopefully the final release candidate prior to the final 2.7.3 release. Not a whole lot of changes, nearly all of them bug fixes. One welcome addition is the newly deployed Korean translation which brings FUDforum's localization number to 24 (WOW!). Big thanks to all the people who have and continue spending the time adding and updating the translations. This RC offers a small number of bug fixes, which is usually a good sign indicating we are nearing the final release. You can download the installer or upgrade script at the listed links. Some of the "main" changes include the following: Updated the French Translation. Workaround for Solaris that does not support GLOB_BRACE. The message compactor is now fully operational. Fixed a bug with search indexing when PostgreSQL is used. Fixed a bug when posting message to NNTP from the forum where the NNTP server requires authentication.

Two weeks late, but, better late then never, that's what I think :-). The September issue of PHP|Architect, has a fairly long and hopefully interesting article on PDO covering all of the new features found at the time. As far as PDO material goes, aside from the manual it is probably the most up to date resource on it that you can find. And even then it does not cover my BC break that was made recently. So if you are considering using PDO, this is definitely something that should be of interest. The issue also held a pleasant surprise for me, which was a fairly detailed and positive review of FUDforum, yey! It only got 4 stars (out of 5), but I did manage to acquire the missing star directly from Peter (Forum’s Reviewer, thanks for the review btw) on a napkin, PERFECTION!!! :-).

It is that time of year again! No, its not Christmas it is time for yet another FUDforum release :-). As usual we start with RC1 and follow it up with the stable final in short order. This release is going to be a mostly bug fix oriented version with a number minor features enchantments. You can download the installer or upgrade script at the listed links. If you don't want to read the complete changelog (whole 19 entries of it listed below) here are some highlights. Added RSS links to several pages to simplify getting feeds from the forum. phpBB2 converter fixes. You can now turn on captcha validation for anonymous user postings (BIG help in comment spam reduction). French translation is now fully up to date. Complete ChangeLog Fixes to the external fud login/logout API. A number of PostgreSQL query fixes. Improved indexing for multibyte text. MySQL 4.1 optimizations for making forum read. Adjust PDO driver to work with latest 5.1 release (use class constants). Added subscribed...

After a fairly short incubation period, 2.7.0 final is now available for download. Installation Script Upgrade Script The release was made a bit faster then anticipated in response to a rather serious security problem found in the uploaded avatar handling code. All who use FUDforum and allow forum members to upload custom avatars are encouraged to upgrade immediately. The details of the exploit are not being released at this time, but believe me when I say that the problem is quite serious and you should most definitely upgrade if you use the uploaded avatar functionality. Aside from the fix for the security problem, this release integrates a number of other changes and improvements, in particular a much improved in terms of speed forum topic view generation code. The list below inclidues the changes found in the final, that were not present in RC1. Fixed a number of edge cases where E_NOTICE warnings may be generated. Unify SQL error handling. A number of PostgreSQL fixes and computabil...

In the past few years FUDforum has grown quite a bit in both the offered functionality and the user base. However, aside from a few tweaks the layout of the forum has remained largely unchanged. While the current layout works quite well for most people, there is a clear want to update the layout to something more interesting. Hence this contest, the goal being to devise a new better, faster and prettier default theme (layout) for the forum, which would improve the user experience. Aside from a new and improved default template some additional templates maybe included in the stock distribution to give forum deployers greater flexibility as far as appearance out of the box. So, if you have some spare time and would like to help to improve FUDforum please submit your design entries, more information can be found here: http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=26425