phpbb3.04 released

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All I can really say is good grief

That is just one month since 3.03 and a mere week since we were able to get 3.03 live. Which we have then had to bug fix ourselves.

Taking three weeks to install a release was our slowest effort yet, partially as there was a lot to do and partially as things have been very busy here, but I imagine some people are slower still and still on 3.02 and finding they have two releases stacked up  

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[Nick(NR)]

oh dear, I'm starting to think final release should've been delayed until Jan, alot of issues would've been sorted giving less hassle, as this is now something I have to deal with for my left 4 dead clan as the founder decided to go with bb3, which was against my wishes to stay on bb2 due to better addons and stability.

I really want to swear for that, but ****
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If you have added any "hacks" updating  aphpbb3 forum is a job for a programmer. Of course that in part is because they missed the opportunity to make phpbb3 component driven  
It would have been so easy in phpbb3 to do something like Joomla does or even something like our own XACTIONS thing. e.g. Let people define components that can register themselves to be called at all significant stages of forum processing. It would remove almost all the need for people to actually modify the core phpbb3 code.
As I say Joomla works like that, and as a result my heavily customized downsizer.net site has almost no modifications to Joomla core code.
If phpbb3 was someones first effort then it might be forgiven, but phpbb3 was meant to be a leap forward in forums, so why duplicate the worst parts of phpbb2?
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[Nick(NR)]

OH NOES! I've just spotted the list of changes and my lord it's rather large:

[Fix] Allow mixed-case template directories to be inherited (Bug #36725)

[Fix] Regression bug from revision #8908 regarding log display in ACP

[Fix] Allow the UCP group management to work for groups with avatars. (Bug #37375)

[Fix] Fix header list build for replying oldest PM in PM history (Bug #37275)

[Fix] Do not display COPPA group in memberlist find member dialog if COPPA disabled (Bug #37175)

[Fix] Do not try to send jabber notifications if no jid entered (Bug #36775)

[Fix] Only display special ranks to guests; no longer display normal ranks for guests (Bug #36735)

[Fix] Properly treat punctuation marks after local urls (Bug #37055)

[Fix] Make searching for members by YIM address work in prosilver

[Fix] Tell users to recreate the search index after changing the common word threshold for fulltext_native (Bug #36345)

[Fix] Adjusted phpbb_chmod() to always set permissions for group bit.

[Fix] Do not increment users post count after post approval if post had been posted in a forum with no post count increasing set (Bug #37865)

[Fix] Extend vertical line for last post column if no posts in forum (Bug #37125)

[Fix] correctly update last topic/forum information if changing guest usernames through editing posts (Bug #38095)

[Fix] fix postcount resync for situations where low and high post ids are higher than step value, resulting in users having 0 posts. (Bug #38195)

[Fix] Use a left join for the topics table on search to avoid trouble with FROM syntax on some databases (Bug #37005)

[Fix] Do not show 'Forward' button if the user cannot send PM's

[Change] Alllow applications to set custom module inclusion path (idea by HoL)

[Change] Handle checking for duplicate usernames in chunks (Bug #17285 - Patch by A_Jelly_Doughnut)

[Change] Better handling and finer control for custom profile fields visibility options. (Patch by Highway of Life)

[Change] Performance increase for format_date() (Bug #37575 - Patch by BartVB)

[Change] Changed prosilver date separator from 'on' to '»'

[Change] Performance increase for get_username_string() (Bug #37545 - Patch by BartVB)

[Change] Slight performance increase for common parameter calls to append_sid() (Bug #37555 - Patch by BartVB)

[Feature] Added 'AGO' setting to relative date strings. For example: posted 14 minutes ago. (Patch by BartVB)

[Sec] Fixed an issue where deactivated accounts could be re-activated without the required privileges. (Reported by Jorick)

[Sec] Ask for forum password if post within passworded forum quoted in private message. (Reported by nickvergessen)

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[admin (no pm's please)]

Small compared to phpbb3.03.

Have you got hacks installed? If not the process is much easier.
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[Nick(NR)]

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Seems like phpbb3.04 has about half the file changes that 3.03 did. That is still a heck of a lot though.
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[Roy]

Yup i recieved an email about this release and was shocked to see some bug fixes to the last update, this is really not how phpbb3 should have been a rushed release in my opinion just to stay with the compatition, should have waited till it was more stable and then released it they wouldn't have lost out much with the compation since a lot of people would have still tested phpbb3 out after its final release.
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As I have said my considered opinion is that phpbb3 is totally wrong anyway.

Total failure to address the real problems with phpbb2 and chronic feature bloat that did not even add especially good features and which succeeded only in adding mind boggling complexity to the administration  
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[Monsieur-Folie]

when you install new versions of phpbb3 does that automatically update my forum (phpbb3 run)?
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[Monsieur-Folie]

That's great,
this forum hosting service is brilliant, I haven't discovered a single flaw and the support is reliable and fast  
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Let's cross fingers here. Ever since phpbb3 came out our users have complained quite rightly that one of the obvious options we implement in phpbb2 with our own custom profile fields is missing from the phpbb3 system    We have always had to say that there is not a lot we can do about this as surely they will have to figure that this is a problem and implement their own improvement.
As of phpbb3.04 I see that a change in the profile field options is happening. Trouble is at this point as I am simply implementing the changes file by file I confess I an not totally sure it is the needed change, but I cannot see what else it would be so I am hopeful.
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Yep, yet to actually work through all the database changes, as there is a heck of a lot for a mere month   but there is a new flag on profile fields that looks like it will do the business at last.
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[Caden Brewer]

When do you think you will start on realesing this?

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