<p>This is a non-exhaustive (but still near complete) changelog for phpBB 3.0.x including release candidate versions. Our thanks to all those people who've contributed bug reports and code fixes.</p>
<aname="v307-PL1"></a><h3>1.i. Changes since 3.0.7-PL1</h3>
<h4> Bug
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<ul>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-4923'>PHPBB3-4923</a>] - compress_tar incorrectly determines type
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-5164'>PHPBB3-5164</a>] - Honor minimum and maximum password length in generated passwords as much as possible.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-6726'>PHPBB3-6726</a>] - Connecting to PostgreSQL using 'localhost' doesn't try to use a TCP connection
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-6747'>PHPBB3-6747</a>] - word censoring * does not handle space for two or more words
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-7260'>PHPBB3-7260</a>] - Do not delete polls if one exists and editing user lacks permissions
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-7296'>PHPBB3-7296</a>] - Style export to tar(.*) does not work
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8792'>PHPBB3-8792</a>] - Misleading error message in auth_ldap.php, function init_ldap()
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8894'>PHPBB3-8894</a>] - JavaScript error and visible quote button on topic review if BBCodes disallowed
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8924'>PHPBB3-8924</a>] - spelling in admin_welcome_inactive.txt
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8929'>PHPBB3-8929</a>] - MS SQL error on view all smilies after 3.0.6 upgrade
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8935'>PHPBB3-8935</a>] - able to set minimal avatar size larger than maximum
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8944'>PHPBB3-8944</a>] - Error on database update (must specify size of index on MySQL4)
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9012'>PHPBB3-9012</a>] - Retain original topic title in shadow topic when moving a topic and editing the title.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9034'>PHPBB3-9034</a>] - Redirect() fails with directory traversal
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9047'>PHPBB3-9047</a>] - Active topics and reported posts
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9049'>PHPBB3-9049</a>] - Password reminder system generates confusable passwords
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9053'>PHPBB3-9053</a>] - Correctly sort database backup file list by date on database restore page
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9061'>PHPBB3-9061</a>] - Race condition in queue locking
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9068'>PHPBB3-9068</a>] - Grammatical Error under Load Settings
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9075'>PHPBB3-9075</a>] - Missing / bad default values of CPFs result in SQL errors on registration of new users
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9091'>PHPBB3-9091</a>] - Wrong IP checking for IPv4 addresses mapped into IPv6
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9094'>PHPBB3-9094</a>] - Hide "Copy permissions" message, when permissions were copied.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9095'>PHPBB3-9095</a>] - Misleading setting text for CAPTCHA
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9099'>PHPBB3-9099</a>] - Missing comma in PASSWORD_EXPLAIN acp language strings
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9101'>PHPBB3-9101</a>] - Bad text placement for reCAPTCHA description
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9104'>PHPBB3-9104</a>] - Safari does not display box headers correctly in the ACP.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9107'>PHPBB3-9107</a>] - Can't Set Parent Forum
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9108'>PHPBB3-9108</a>] - RSS feeds does not work on Postgres
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9112'>PHPBB3-9112</a>] - Most active forum post count does not respect m_approve permission
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9114'>PHPBB3-9114</a>] - Recent bug fix for smilies causing problems on older MySQL versions
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9117'>PHPBB3-9117</a>] - Wrong redirection after login
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9119'>PHPBB3-9119</a>] - Language selection is disregarded in automatic update
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9120'>PHPBB3-9120</a>] - Typo fix in a comment in functions.php
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9121'>PHPBB3-9121</a>] - Forum feed shows posts that are currently on the moderation queue
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9125'>PHPBB3-9125</a>] - ACP User Overview: Unmatched </form> tag when viewing own user
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9126'>PHPBB3-9126</a>] - Invalid redirection after login to forum not in web root
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9132'>PHPBB3-9132</a>] - Oracle CLOB support is broken, preventing storage of long strings
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9135'>PHPBB3-9135</a>] - Fix report-icon for moderators in PM folders.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9140'>PHPBB3-9140</a>] - Check current board version in incremental update packages
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9145'>PHPBB3-9145</a>] - Fix open_basedir issues when accessing styles- and language-management
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9146'>PHPBB3-9146</a>] - Quick-Reply tabindex="6" set twice
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9154'>PHPBB3-9154</a>] - Correctly check for double inclusion in captcha garbage collection
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9158'>PHPBB3-9158</a>] - viewforum/viewtopic pages unnecessarily duplicated with start=0
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9162'>PHPBB3-9162</a>] - BBCode in poll options is broken, when posting without question.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9167'>PHPBB3-9167</a>] - Remove shadow topics from remaining forums when deleting a forum including posts
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9170'>PHPBB3-9170</a>] - Unable to get image size in img bbcode when URL has multiple parameters.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9173'>PHPBB3-9173</a>] - sql_config_count() artificially limits number scope to 4byte-integer on PostgreSQL and Firebird
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9176'>PHPBB3-9176</a>] - When setting the board's date format the board's timezone settings aren't taken into account
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9451'>PHPBB3-9451</a>] - Unnecessary overhead in avatar_process_user function
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9478'>PHPBB3-9478</a>] - Validate maximum number of allowed recipients per PM value
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9499'>PHPBB3-9499</a>] - Javascript function dE does not correctly detect element visibility
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9504'>PHPBB3-9504</a>] - Allow gallery avatars with whitespaces in the filename
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9509'>PHPBB3-9509</a>] - phpBB Coding Guidelines state subversion as the version control system for phpBB
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9510'>PHPBB3-9510</a>] - Unable to copy permissions from and to forums you cannot see
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9512'>PHPBB3-9512</a>] - Fix dead link in MCP on reports for global announcements in prosilver.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9514'>PHPBB3-9514</a>] - Correctly delete big datasets when deleting a forum including topics/posts on non-MySQL databases
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9518'>PHPBB3-9518</a>] - Postgres DBAL does not correctly create a new database connection when passing $new_link as true
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9519'>PHPBB3-9519</a>] - Replace remaining is_writable() calls with phpbb_is_writable().
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9521'>PHPBB3-9521</a>] - MSSQL error reporting returns String instead of an error
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9524'>PHPBB3-9524</a>] - IPv6 regular expression does not match addresses starting in ::
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9526'>PHPBB3-9526</a>] - User Preference to hide online status does not work for bots
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9528'>PHPBB3-9528</a>] - Quoting in a PM does not fall back to bbcode-less quotes using ">" when bbcodes are disabled
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9529'>PHPBB3-9529</a>] - Topic review does not display all selected posts
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9530'>PHPBB3-9530</a>] - subsilver2 missing fallback option on quoting when bbcodes are disabled
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9531'>PHPBB3-9531</a>] - BBCode-less fall back option for quotes is missing "Author wrote:" line when quoting from topic-review.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9535'>PHPBB3-9535</a>] - Incorrect margins in RTL languages: signatures, permission ACP & updater
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9545'>PHPBB3-9545</a>] - 'Your first forum' should have 'Display active topics:' set to 'Yes'
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9546'>PHPBB3-9546</a>] - Moving all posts from one topic to another does not delete bookmarks
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9547'>PHPBB3-9547</a>] - Changing forum type applies FORUM_FLAG_ACTIVE_TOPICS to new forum type.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9548'>PHPBB3-9548</a>] - Delete user quicktool drop down should have an empty or invalid selection as the default
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9559'>PHPBB3-9559</a>] - Messenger Queue Batch Size configuration option is overridden
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9567'>PHPBB3-9567</a>] - Newly registered users group ACP wording
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9582'>PHPBB3-9582</a>] - Missing MSSQL native driver case statements
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9592'>PHPBB3-9592</a>] - Test suite does not run on SQLite
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9593'>PHPBB3-9593</a>] - Missing documentation for running unit tests
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9599'>PHPBB3-9599</a>] - Windows workaround for checkdnsrr() returns wrong results
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9605'>PHPBB3-9605</a>] - Wrong class added to topiclist, when there's no announcement topic.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9615'>PHPBB3-9615</a>] - When attaching a file whose name contains quotes, filename before last quote is cut off in display
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9623'>PHPBB3-9623</a>] - Strings not properly normalized - acp_prune.php
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9626'>PHPBB3-9626</a>] - Regular expressions from get_preg_expression() are untested.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9628'>PHPBB3-9628</a>] - Add module function does not correctly insert a module after the specified one
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9633'>PHPBB3-9633</a>] - Newly registered users group color is not used in Our Newest Member
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9635'>PHPBB3-9635</a>] - Useless parameter $data['post_time'] in function submit_post.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9637'>PHPBB3-9637</a>] - SET NAMES 'BINARY' error in convertor
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9643'>PHPBB3-9643</a>] - DB connection error when $dbhost is an IPv6 address
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9644'>PHPBB3-9644</a>] - submit_post shows support for options that cause a trigger_error in the call to user_notification
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9646'>PHPBB3-9646</a>] - Cant hide/outcomment @import in stylesheet.css
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9650'>PHPBB3-9650</a>] - It should not be possible to ban Anonymous
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9653'>PHPBB3-9653</a>] - xhtml errors in subsilver2 when using the bbcodes code and quote in signatures
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9655'>PHPBB3-9655</a>] - Selecting an unavailable captcha plugin looks like a successful action
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9656'>PHPBB3-9656</a>] - PHP Information in ACP always lists error_reporting as 0
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9664'>PHPBB3-9664</a>] - Another duplicate accesskey: t = top and list item
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9665'>PHPBB3-9665</a>] - Signature "0" cannot be previewed
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9677'>PHPBB3-9677</a>] - Subsilver2 is missing the bbcode-helpline for inline-attachments.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9678'>PHPBB3-9678</a>] - Flash attachments are not displayed in subsilver2.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9679'>PHPBB3-9679</a>] - "Notify User" checkbox appears in MCP Queue even if no notification methods are enabled
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9686'>PHPBB3-9686</a>] - Unable to create data backup using the mssqlnative DBAL
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9694'>PHPBB3-9694</a>] - Calling download/file.php with empty avatar parameter can throw an E_NOTICE message
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9695'>PHPBB3-9695</a>] - Bad Display of User Input - mcp_ban
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9696'>PHPBB3-9696</a>] - Installation of phpBB with SQLite fails
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9697'>PHPBB3-9697</a>] - Backlink broken when the select parent forum does not exist.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9698'>PHPBB3-9698</a>] - Returning result of new by reference is deprecated in php 5.3
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9702'>PHPBB3-9702</a>] - "Ban until (date)" appears to be based on UTC time instead of local time
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9703'>PHPBB3-9703</a>] - Removing a user does not remove their private message folders or rules
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9712'>PHPBB3-9712</a>] - Future dates display as "less than one minute ago"
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9714'>PHPBB3-9714</a>] - "Undefined variable: email" in email regular expression unit tests
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9715'>PHPBB3-9715</a>] - Fix email address regular expression or adjust email regular expression unit tests
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9722'>PHPBB3-9722</a>] - "New Topic" button title attribute mismatch in prosilver's viewforum
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9727'>PHPBB3-9727</a>] - Feed replaces ./ with board URL
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9743'>PHPBB3-9743</a>] - Fix background-position of top2-class in prosilver for RTL-languages.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9744'>PHPBB3-9744</a>] - Mistyped word 'then' in FAQ. It should be 'than'.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9748'>PHPBB3-9748</a>] - <br /> not being replaced in prepare_message
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9749'>PHPBB3-9749</a>] - fulltext_mysql.php overreacts on + and - characters in search words
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9752'>PHPBB3-9752</a>] - Misleading text when using Q&A CAPTCHA
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9754'>PHPBB3-9754</a>] - Template variable S_USER_POSTED always set to false in search.php
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9757'>PHPBB3-9757</a>] - Empty template variable HISTORY_TITLE in ucp_pm_history
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9760'>PHPBB3-9760</a>] - Fulltext native search, wildcard * does not get escaped leading to long execution time
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9761'>PHPBB3-9761</a>] - Quote nesting depth explanation is misleading
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9772'>PHPBB3-9772</a>] - Under some circumstances, email addresses are shown to undesired users
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9780'>PHPBB3-9780</a>] - gen_rand_string() not respecting $num_chars parameter anymore.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9782'>PHPBB3-9782</a>] - Board disable radio in Board-Settings set on when server load high
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9793'>PHPBB3-9793</a>] - Undefined function send_status_line() in download/file.php when in avatar mode.
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<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9807'>PHPBB3-9807</a>] - Avatar tab displays when avatars are disabled
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9810'>PHPBB3-9810</a>] - Clicking on "Select All" of code tag on print page results in a javascript error when using prosilver
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9820'>PHPBB3-9820</a>] - Fix undefined indexes when trying to post a new topic
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9822'>PHPBB3-9822</a>] - Can not delete style-components from the file-system as per explanation.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9829'>PHPBB3-9829</a>] - Recaptcha plugin result interpretation fault
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9835'>PHPBB3-9835</a>] - Login Confirm Explain Not Working
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9840'>PHPBB3-9840</a>] - Display view unread posts link for guests
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9841'>PHPBB3-9841</a>] - Change "Save" button to "Save draft"
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9854'>PHPBB3-9854</a>] - Auth API documentation is incomplete
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9855'>PHPBB3-9855</a>] - Tests don't run on PHPUnit 3.5
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9879'>PHPBB3-9879</a>] - captcha_qa.php spelling, punctuation and grammar errors
</li>
</ul>
<h4> Improvement
</h4>
<ul>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-7332'>PHPBB3-7332</a>] - MCP post details usability
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-8709'>PHPBB3-8709</a>] - Multibyte keys in request_var not possible
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9595'>PHPBB3-9595</a>] - Search settings in ACP: Add information on minimum word size indexed when using Fulltext MySQL backend
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9598'>PHPBB3-9598</a>] - Call checkdnsrr() on Windows with PHP 5.3
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9609'>PHPBB3-9609</a>] - Use send_status_line instead of calling header
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9611'>PHPBB3-9611</a>] - Increase entropy in activation keys
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9612'>PHPBB3-9612</a>] - Split gen_rand_string() into gen_rand_string() and gen_rand_string_friendly()
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9629'>PHPBB3-9629</a>] - sid parameter forced for style.php makes caching difficult
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9659'>PHPBB3-9659</a>] - Default phpBB signature user_options need to be set for convertors
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9690'>PHPBB3-9690</a>] - MSN Bot will become Bing Bot
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9777'>PHPBB3-9777</a>] - Print useful error message in pre-commit hook when php is not installed.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9785'>PHPBB3-9785</a>] - Not able to recover a password when board disabled
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9825'>PHPBB3-9825</a>] - Run tests on sqlite if available and no test db configured
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9830'>PHPBB3-9830</a>] - Awkward message when config.php is missing
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9850'>PHPBB3-9850</a>] - Allow version checker to display information on multiple releases
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9853'>PHPBB3-9853</a>] - Change default reCAPTCHA theme in Prosilver & Subsilver2 to better coordinate with style color scheme
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9880'>PHPBB3-9880</a>] - Rename all mentions of CAPTCHA or visual confirmation to anti-bot
</li>
</ul>
<h4> New Feature
</h4>
<ul>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9039'>PHPBB3-9039</a>] - Native SQL Server Support mssqlnative.php
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9511'>PHPBB3-9511</a>] - View note for moderators on unapproved posts/topics with unapproved posts in ATOM Feed.
</li>
</ul>
<h4> Task
</h4>
<ul>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9520'>PHPBB3-9520</a>] - Add web.config files for IIS
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9701'>PHPBB3-9701</a>] - Enable notices in unit tests
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9768'>PHPBB3-9768</a>] - Create git commit-msg hook that verifies the commit message conforms to our standards
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9769'>PHPBB3-9769</a>] - Add install and uninstall scripts for the git hooks
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9770'>PHPBB3-9770</a>] - Git commit message should be prefilled with branch and ticket information
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9800'>PHPBB3-9800</a>] - Update tracker URL in docs/README.html
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9804'>PHPBB3-9804</a>] - Update docs/AUTHORS (DavidMJ & igorw)
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9808'>PHPBB3-9808</a>] - Git commit message hook depends on GNU wc
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9816'>PHPBB3-9816</a>] - Remove config.php from git repository
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9848'>PHPBB3-9848</a>] - Add phpBB data files to .gitignore.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9849'>PHPBB3-9849</a>] - Create build script using phing
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9857'>PHPBB3-9857</a>] - Remove visible $Id$ from docs files.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9868'>PHPBB3-9868</a>] - Make the test suite run and pass using the mssqlnative driver
</li>
</ul>
<h4> Sub-task
</h4>
<ul>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9517'>PHPBB3-9517</a>] - Remote avatar upload does not check the filesize before and during transfer.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9562'>PHPBB3-9562</a>] - Advanced Search is inaccessible using the mssqlnative DBAL
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9564'>PHPBB3-9564</a>] - Reported messages are not assigned the default report reason when a reason is removed from the ACP using the mssqlnative DBAL
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9565'>PHPBB3-9565</a>] - It is impossible to create a custom profile field using the mssqlnative DBAL
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9566'>PHPBB3-9566</a>] - Two debug notices are displayed when setting a custom profile field though the UCP using the mssqlnative DBAL
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9583'>PHPBB3-9583</a>] - MSSQL native backups cannot be restored
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9606'>PHPBB3-9606</a>] - Drop redundant SQL query for unreads fetching
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9613'>PHPBB3-9613</a>] - Implement a load switch for unreads search feature.
</li>
<li>[<ahref='http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-9817'>PHPBB3-9817</a>] - Make build script create blank config.php
<li>[Fix] Update: Store expected resulting file contents in cache and do not suggest further merges if the contents match, also fixes infinite merge loop (Bug #54075)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly determine writable status of files on Windows operating systems. (Bug #39035)</li>
<li>[Fix] Show report button in prosilver for guests who are allowed to report posts. (Bug #45695)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly show private message history. (Bug #46065)</li>
<li>[Fix] Various XHTML mistakes in prosilver, subsilver2 and the ACP. (Bugs #25545, #26315, #38555, #45505 - Patch by Raimon, #45785, #45865, #47085 - Patch by Raimon)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fix some ACP style issues. (Bug #16109 - Patch by prototech)</li>
<li>[Fix] Move post bump information markup to the template. (Bug #34295)</li>
<li>[Fix] Show error in the ACP when template folder is not readable. (Bug #45705)</li>
<li>[Fix] Adjust viewonline filename regular expression to be less strict. (Bug #46215)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly apply the "can change vote" permission again. Regression introduced in r9470. (Bug #45895)</li>
<li>[Fix] Remove data from friend/foe table when deleting user. (Bug #45345)</li>
<li>[Fix] Show proper error message when trying to add bots to friends/foes list. (Bug #40205)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fixed database backup and restore with Oracle DBMS. (Bug #46715)</li>
<li>[Fix] Update attachments table when deleting user and retaining his posts. (Bug #40245)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly detect files in subfolders when viewing cached template files. (Bug #46145)</li>
<li>[Fix] Display user's jabber address in popup if jabber functionality is disabled. (Bug #20775)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly exclude forums from active topics list. (Bug #19135)</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not display banned users in birthday list. (Bug #20625)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fix function to recalculate nested sets. (Bug #41555 - Patch by EXreaction)</li>
<li>[Fix] Display but also highlight already used rank images while assigning new ranks. (Bug #22665)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly orientate quoted text image on RTL languages. (Bug #33745)</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not display "View user notes" and "Warn user" links in user profile if corresponding MCP modules are disabled. (Bug #10519)</li>
<li>[Fix] Show proper error message when trying to create a private messages folder with an empty name. (Bug #39875)</li>
<li>[Fix] No longer state that it is possible to manage group leaders from the UCP. (Bug #19945)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fix error with disapproval of topics having several queued posts only. (Bug #47705)</li>
<li>[Fix] Preserve newlines in template files (one newline had been always dropped after a template variable due to PHP's handling of closing tags).</li>
<li>[Fix] Be less strict with FTP daemons for getting directory filelists. (Bug #46295)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fix set_custom_template for database-stored styles. (Bug #40515)</li>
<li>[Fix] Banning an already banned user states to be successful, but has no effect. (Bug #47825 - Patch by Pyramide)</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not add style parameter again to URL after admin re-authentification. (Bug #18005 - Patch by leviatan21)</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not cut post-message in between HTML-Entities on search.php. (Bug #31505 - Patch by leviatan21)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly set attachment flag for topics, posts and pms after deleting attachments. (Bug #48265 - Patch by MarcoDM and nickvergessen)</li>
<li>[Fix] Display "Locked" button instead of "Reply" one for locked forum in viewtopic (prosilver). (Bug #38055 - Patch by Raimon)</li>
<li>[Fix] Adjust build_url() to not prepend $phpbb_root_path if path returned from redirect() is an URL. This fixes redirect issues with some installations and bridges. (Bug #47535)</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not display topic approval status image for shadow topic if a user is not a moderator in the forum the topic has been moved to. (Bug #43295)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fix email problems on servers with PHP installations not accepting RFC-compliant subject string passed to the mail()-function. (Bug #46725)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly orientate control panel navigation background-image on RTL languages. (Bug #49945)</li>
<li>[Fix] Add header gradient back into subsilver2 but keep site logo easily replaceable with smaller and bigger ones. (Bug #11142 - Patch by dark/Rain and Raimon)</li>
<li>[Change] submit_post() now accepts force_approved_state key passed to $data to indicate new posts being approved (true) or unapproved (false).</li>
<li>[Feature] New "Newly Registered Users" group for assigning permissions to newly registered users. They will be removed from this group once they reach a defineable amount of posts.</li>
<li>[Feature] Ability to define if the "Newly Registered Users" group will be assigned as the default group to newly registered users.</li>
<li>[Feature] Ability to define constant PHPBB_USE_BOARD_URL_PATH to use board url for images/avatars/ranks/imageset (useful for bridges and applications using phpBB).</li>
<li>[Feature] Added function to generate email hash. (Bug #49195)</li>
<li>[Feature] Style authors are now able to define the default submit button used for form submission on ENTER keypress on forms using more than one submit button. Prosilver uses this for the posting page(s) and registration screen.</li>
<li>[Fix] Various XHTML mistakes in prosilver, subsilver2 and the ACP. (Bugs #41745, #42265 - Patch by nickvergessen, #38465, #43015, #46585 - Patch by Raimon)</li>
<li>[Fix] Visibility of custom field on registration is incorrectly controlled by setting "display" (Bug #41385 - Patch by Eelke and fade2gray)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correct mbstring regular expression for the allowable username characters, only affects <code>USERNAME_LETTER_NUM_SPACERS</code>. (Bug #42325)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fix imageset editing for retaining and correctly setting dimensions for images, as well as displaying correct settings for first page load.</li>
<li>[Fix] Prevent incomplete backups stored if option "store and download" is selected and admin cancel download by removing the option. (Bug #20325)</li>
<li>[Fix] Set topic_last_view_time on post/reply/edit to circumvent race conditions in auto prune and false removal of topics for manual forum prune (Bug #18055, #43515)</li>
<li>[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)</li>
<li>[Fix] Use phpBB 3.1.x method for storing cached data to prevent PHP bug with our usage of var_export(). (Thanks to Techie-Micheal and HoL for pointing out possible problems)</li>
<li>[Fix] Implemented strict check for cached user permissions and existing ACL options. This fix makes sure cached permissions are valid, even if they got already cached.</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not show link to user/group profiles if user has no permission to view the linked page and gets a denied message anyway. (Bug #15088)</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not display last post link and sort display options for search engines. (Bug #15088)</li>
<li>[Fix] Make sure users still get notifications if they set to only be notified by Jabber, but Jabber service disabled. (Bug #29715 - Patch by Paul)</li>
<li>[Change] Remove NUL-Bytes directly in request_var() for strings and within the custom DBAL sql_escape() functions (MSSQL, Firebird, Oracle) (reported by AdhostMikeSw)</li>
<li>[Feature] Allow limited inheritance for template sets.</li>
<li>[Feature] Allow hard disabling of the template editor.</li>
<li>[Feature] Allow setting custom language path through $user->set_custom_lang_path(). $user->lang_path now also do not include the user language, but only the path.</li>
<li>[Feature] Ability to define nullar/singular/plural language entries</li>
<li>[Feature] Ability to mimic sprintf() calls with $user->lang() with the ability to correctly assign nullar/singular/plural language entries.</li>
<li>[Feature] Added the possibility to force user posts put in queue if post count is lower than an admin defined value. Guest posting is not affected by this setting.</li>
<li>[Feature] Added 'max_recipients' setting for private messages. This setting allows admins to define the maximum number of recipients per private message with a board-wide setting and a group-specific setting.</li>
<li>[Feature] Added new permission setting for sending private messages to groups. Now there are two permissions to define sending private messages to multiple recipients and private messages to groups.</li>
<li>[Feature] Allow specific connection to different server for jabber functionality by providing a valid JID as username. This also allows the use of talk.google.com as jabber server with gmail.com JIDs. (Bug #14989)</li>
<li>[Sec Precaution] Stricter validation of the HTTP_HOST header (Thanks to Techie-Micheal et al for pointing out possible issues in derived code)</li>
<li>[Fix] Made the compress_tar class tolerate archives that do not properly have their archived contents listed (Bug #14429 / thanks to JRSweets for his patch)</li>
<li>[Fix] Correctly display subforum read/unread icons from RTL in FF3, Konqueror and Safari3+. (thanks arod-1 for the fix, related to Bug #14830)</li>
<li>[Change] Adjust truncate_string() to be able to adjust the maximum storage length.</li>
<li>[Change] Generalize load check (Bug #21255 / thanks to Xipher)</li>
<li>[Change] Make utf8_htmlspecialchars not pass its argument by reference (Bug #21885)</li>
<li>[Change] Sort the tables at the database table backup screen</li>
<li>[Change] For determining the maximum number of private messages in one box, use the biggest value from all groups the user is a member of (Bug #24665)</li>
<li>[Change] Show email ban reason on registration. Additionally allow custom errors properly returned if using validate_data(). (Bug #26885)</li>
<li>[Change] Don't allow redirects to different domains. (thanks nookieman)</li>
<li>[Feature] Added optional referer validation of POST requests as additional CSRF protection.</li>
<li>[Feature] Added optional stricter upload validation to avoid mime sniffing in addition to the safeguards provided by file.php. (thanks to Nicolas Grekas for compiling the list).</li>
<li>[Feature] Streamlined banning via the MCP by adding a ban link to the user profile. Also pre-fills ban fields as far as possible.</li>
<li>[Feature] Added ACP logout to reset an admin session.</li>
<li>[Sec] Only allow urls gone through redirect() being used within login_box(). (thanks nookieman)</li>
<li>[Change] Do not check usernames against word censor list. Disallowed usernames is already checked and word censor belong to posts. (Bug #17745)</li>
<li>[Fix] Additionally include non-postable forums for moderators forums shown within the teams list. (Bug #17265)</li>
<li>[Change] Sped up viewforum considerably (also goes towards mcp_forum)</li>
<li>[Fix] Fixing realpath issues for provider returning the passed value instead of disabling it. This fixes issues with confirm boxes for those hosted on Network Solutions for example. (Bug #20435)</li>
<li>[Change] Set template recompilation to be disabled by default. All mod and style authors and all those who want to modify their styles should enabled it after installation.</li>
<li>[Change] Disable debug mode. All mod and style authors should enable DEBUG and DEBUG_EXTRA.</li>
<li>[Fix] Check error reporting level for all error level. This fixes a problem for hosts having manipulated the error handler. (Bug #14831)</li>
<li>[Feature] Constant PHPBB_DB_NEW_LINK introduced which can be used to force phpBB to create a new database connection instead of reusing an existing one if the dbms supports it (Bug #14927)</li>
<li>[Fix] Automatic URL parsing no longer allows dots in the schema but can parse URLs starting after a dot (Bug #15110)</li>
<li>[Fix] Dynamic width for birthday select boxes (Bug #15149)</li>
<li>[Fix] Always display the quote button as the most accessible one (this means edit is before quote in prosilver due to the way we lay out profiles)</li>
<li>[Sec] Fixing possible XSS through compromised WHOIS server (#i63, #i64)</li>
<li>[Sec] Missing access control on whois in viewonline.php (#i51)</li>
<li>[Sec] Encoding some variables within user::page array correctly (to cope with browser not doing it correctly) to prevent XSS through functions re-using them (#i61)</li>
<li>[Sec] Fixed XSS through memberlist search feature (#i62)</li>
<li>[Sec] Fixed XSS through colour swatch (#i65)</li>
<li>[Fix] Use board default DST setting on creating new profiles (Bug #11563)</li>
<li>[Feature] New constant PHPBB_EMBEDDED can be used to let phpBB not call exit; if wrapped/embedded (We may re-check this constant on other code locations later too)</li>
<li>[Feature] append_sid() having a check for the function append_sid_phpbb_hook(). This function is called in favour of append_sid() with the exact same parameters if present.</li>
<li>[Change] For new posts or editing the first post topic titles have a maxlength of 60 characters. For any subsequent posts the length is extended to 64 to make room for the Re: part, but cutting at 60 characters. The maxlength need to be 64, else users using opera are unable to post (opera does not allow pre-filling a field with more characters than specified within the maxlength attribute)</li>
<li>[Fix] Disable gzip compression for cached stylesheet for Internet Explorer 6 or empty browser (IE6 is not able to properly display the compressed stylesheet) (Bug #14054)</li>
<li>[Fix] Header icons fixed in FF for RTL languages (Bug #14084)</li>
<li>[Fix] Prevent {URL} token in custom BBCodes from make_clickable messing (Bug #14151)</li>
<li>[Sec] Added alternative tokens to custom BBCodes which are safe for CSS/Javascript and changed TEXT token to entitise opening and closing parantheses.</li>
<li>[Feature] Allow "older" updates applied with the automatic updater. This allows people using it for updating, say, from 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 (with the correct package of course) and then from 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 if the latest version at this time is 3.0.2. These changes take effect beginning with RC4 or people replacing install/install_update.php manually prior doing the updates.</li>
<li>[Fix] Use global username display function on several places (Bug #11080, #11098) - patch by HoL</li>
<li>[Fix] Several viewonline fixes and feature changes. Also displaying the users browser in viewonline list to let the admin easier spot additional search bots, connected to a_user permission (Bug #11088) - patch and suggestions provided by HoL</li>
<li>[Change] u_viewprofile permission also affecting viewonline list now</li>
<li>[Fix] Do not display return to search link in prosilver if search is not allowed (Bug #11393)</li>
<li>[Fix] Use global url validation for img bbcode tag (Bug #11935)</li>
<li>[Fix] Added proper unicode support to style names (Bug #12165)</li>
<li>[Fix] Make to/bcc line in view private message display consistent with other username displays in prosilver (Bug #11989)</li>
<li>[Fix] Send out activation email if admin activation is enabled and user activated through inactive users panel upon registration (Bug #12065)</li>
<li>[Change] Re-implemented All Yes/No/Never links in permission panels for easier changing all categories at once</li>
<li>[Change] Advanced permission link now "marked" if no role is assigned and custom permissions set. With this an admin can instantly see if the object is not set at all or having custom permissions, something you only saw if advanced permissions were viewed before.</li>
<li>[Sec] Do not allow setup spiders/robots to post, even if permissions are given. We see no reason why this should be possible. (Thanks to Frank Rizzo for convincing us regarding this)</li>
<li>[Feature] Allow dropping in custom "info_[module class]_*.php" files to language/*/mods directory for inclusion into the menu structure without the need to modify phpBB language files for menu placements</li>
<li>[Fix] The forum/topic sync code now recognizes other ways that the latest post in a topic can be expressed (Bug #12947) - patch provided by APTX</li>
<li>[Fix] Topic deletion via the user post deletion mechanism did not take into account statistics for forums that hold shadow topics (Bug #12981)</li>
<li>[Change] Limit maximum number of allowed characters in messages to 60.000 by default. Admins should increase their PHP time limits if they want to raise this tremedously.</li>
<li>[Change] Some changes to the conversion documentation</li>
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