PhpBB 2.0.20 released - upgrade now!

[B33R]

Here's an important update for everyone running phpBB. Upgrade your forum now!

phpBB Group announces the release of phpBB 2.0.20, the "Golden Super Furry Linen" edition.
This release is a cumulative bug fix update, as well as including a number of minor security fixes.

We have also introduced a new feature to allow you to limit how often a user may conduct a search if you find that searches are putting a load on your server, as well as changing the default permissions on new forums so that you must explicitly make them available for guests to post in and enabling visual confirmation by default on all new installs.

As with all new releases we urge you to update as soon as possible. You can of course find this download available on our downloads page

http://www.phpbb.com/downloads.php

**Changelog**

* Prevent login attempts from incrementing for inactive users
* Do not check maximum login attempts on re-authentication to the admin panel - tomknight
* Regenerate session keys on password change
* retrieving category rows in index.php (Bug #90)
* improved index performance by determining the permissions before iterating through all forums (Bug #91)
* Better handling of short usernames within the search (bug #105)
* Send a no-cache header on admin pages as well as normal board pages (Bug #149)
* Apply word censors to the message when quoting it (Bug #405)
* Improved performance of query in admin_groups (Bug #753)
* Workaround for an issue in either PHP or MSSQL resulting in a space being returned instead of an empty string (bug #830)
* Correct use of default_style config value (Bug #861)
* Replace unneeded unset calls in admin_db_utilities.php - vanderaj
* Improved error handling in modcp.php
* Improved handling of forums to which the user does not have any explicit permissions - vanderaj
* Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_ranks.php, now requires confirmation of deletions
* Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_words.php, now requires confirmation of deletions
* Addition and editing of smilies can no longer be performed via GET, now requires confirmation of deletions
* Escape group names in admin_groups.php
* Replace strip_tags with htmlspecialchars in private message subject
* Some changes to HTML handling if enabled
* Escape any special characters in reverse dns - Anthrax101
* Typecast poll id values - Anthrax101
* Added configurable search flood control to reduce the effect of DoS style attacks
* Changed the way we create "random" values for use as keys - chinchilla/Anthrax101
* Enabled Visual Confirmation by default
* Changed handling of the case where a selected style doesn't exist in the database
* Changed handling of topic pruning to improve performance
* Changed default forum permissions to only allow registered users to post in new forums

 

[JYM]

Ah! Thanks for the update I will upgrade my forum immediately.

 

[Xyzer]

I have had a problem with this, my forum was installed and i upgraded to the newest version and the admin couldnt login, and i followed all the instructions correct!

 

[yeppers]

Thanks for the heads up .

webmonkey, I'd say you may have just forgotten SOMETHING or did something wrong.

If you're pretty confident though, you might want to go on the phpbb forum and report it.

 

[WuLabsWuTecH]

don't all your mods have to be reinstalled when you upgrade?

 

[B33R]

don't all your mods have to be reinstalled when you upgrade?

Most mods won't even be affected by this update. It doesn't seem like a very big upgrade (mostly minor changes)

I have had a problem with this, my forum was installed and i upgraded to the newest version and the admin couldnt login, and i followed all the instructions correct!

Did you resolve this problem yet?

Your best bet is to find the changes you made to any of the admin code and recheck your coding. It's probably just a missed character or some other simple error.

 

[yeppers]

don't all your mods have to be reinstalled when you upgrade?

Most mods won't even be affected by this update. It doesn't seem like a very big upgrade (mostly minor changes)

I have had a problem with this, my forum was installed and i upgraded to the newest version and the admin couldnt login, and i followed all the instructions correct!

Did you resolve this problem yet?

Your best bet is to find the changes you made to any of the admin code and recheck your coding. It's probably just a missed character or some other simple error.

Depending on the mod, yes it is very possible that the mods installed will need to be re-installed, regardless of how 'small' the update may seem.

 

[StudioWorks]

Good info, Thanks.

 

[WuLabsWuTecH]

i think i'll wait for a few more releases then, no use in re installing my mods every month or so

 

[dojo]

I haven't upgraded since 2.0.17 .. I don't quite hurry to update the script. I would rather install more hacks on it .. thought, maybe when I get some time I will try to make the code changes.

 

[leviathon]

Never was a big fan of phpBB

 

[LeetPCUser]

Thanks a bunch! I just updated!!