I am happy to announce the immediate availability of FUDforum 2.6.8 on which I have been hard at work for the past month or so. This release introduces several improvements that range from nested categories, IF/ELSE logic support in the templating system and a variety of speed enchantments. All users of FUDforum are encouraged to upgrade to this release. The new release can be downloaded from here: FUDforum Download

While a RC, this non the less is a noteworthy release as it finally introduces the concept of conditional expressions via the IF ELSE END syntax inside the templating language. This means that designers gain greater control over the output logic rather then they did before. It also allowed me to remove many temporary variables that had to store intermediate values of various conditional expression inside the "code" component of the page. Further details of this release can be found [url=http://fudforum.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=20999]here[/url].

Yey! Yet another stable release of FUDforum is out. A bit more of e-mail fine tuning, this time aimed at making sure all mail clients can properly parsed encoded e-mails. Updated Chinese & French translations and the English translation undergone major grammatical revisions. The poll can now be position anywhere inside the message via the use of the {POLL} tag. Stricter URL session checks etc... All users are encourages to upgrade.

In an effort to catch up to the Linux kernel version (I can dream, can't I :)) just over a week after 2.6.2 release here goes 2.6.3RC1 of FUDforum. While mostly a bug fixing release there are a number of fairly important new features in it as well. The safety SQ mechanism is now limited to URLs that need it making 99% of all other URLs much shorter and once again search engine friend (with PATH_INFO theme). The e-mail notification code has been [b]finally[/b] fixed and should be working correctly. I've added a user control panel that creates an easy interface to view your buddies, new private messages and forums/topics with new messages that you are subscribed to. All forms now feature a tabindex as well focus on the 1st field to allow keyboard jockeys to use the forum without having to rely on their mouse. The search form now features a user limiter that can be used to filter search results by user name

In between getting ready for the next PHP release, flame-war of the day and the usual workload I completely forgot to mention that FUDforum 2.6.2 has been released today, shame on me. This release is a mix of bug fixes and new features with full details avaliable in the release announcement (final & rc1) and nitpick details in the changelog.