We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB "Richard 'D¡cky' Foote" 3.0.12. This version is a maintenance release fixing various bugs but not adding any new features. We have updated the list of bots/spiders, further improved compatibility with recent PHP versions, and support MySQL fulltext search on InnoDB for those MySQL versions which provide it. The custom BBCode token LOCAL_URL has been modified to operate closer to its description. If you have any custom BBCodes using the token you should test if the custom BBCode still functions correctly or if you need to replace the token with the new RELATIVE_URL token. Moderators are no longer exempt from post approval, instead the permission "Can post without approval" is applied as it is for all other users. We now reject very long password inputs immediately to save on resources during password checks.
We urge you to update your installation as soon as possible. Our support team will only support phpBB 3.0.12, updates to phpBB 3.0.12 and conversions to phpBB 3.0.12. Submissions to our trackers for older versions will not be accepted, please make sure you update before you submit a bug report.
If you use a language pack other than the default "English [GB]", you should check our downloads section, an update may already be available.
We would also like to say a special thank you to everyone outside the development team who has contributed a patch to this release:
Marc Alexander, Patrick Webster, Fyorl, erangamapa, Senky, Igor Wiedler, Vjacheslav Trushkin, Andy Chase, Gaëtan Muller, Callum Macrae, Carlo, Matt Friedman, Vinny, Adonais Romero González, Bruno Ais, Crizz0, David Tobin, Jordan Rogers, Joseph Warner, Martin Beckmann, Matthew Fonda, MichaelC, Oyabun1, Sajaki, Victor Nagy, gamerchan, hjpotter92, riadhchtara, westr. You can find a full list of contributors on GitHub: https://github.com/phpbb/phpbb3/graphs/contributors.
For a complete list of changes with attributed ticket numbers, please consult our comprehensive changelog.
Installation instructions
A short explanation of how to do a conversion, installation or update is included within the provided INSTALL.html file, please be sure to read it. You can find a list of requirements on our Downloads page.
Security
If you find any security issues please report them to our security tracker.
Available packages
If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" or "patch" method for updating.
- Full Package:
Full phpBB 3 source code and english language files. - Automatic Update Package:
Update package for the automatic updater, contains changes from previous release to this release. - Changed Files Only:
Complete files, but only those that were changed since previous releases of phpBB 3. This archive contains changed files for every previous release. - Patch Files:
This file contains diffs against the previous phpBB 3 release, which can be applied with the patch utility.
- For new installations you should use the Full Package
- For updates of boards without modifications you can use the Automatic Update Package (guided update) or the Changed Files Only package (manual update).
- For updates of boards with modifications you should use the Automatic Update Package. If you are confident with patch files and patching you can use the Patch Files Package.
- International Support Teams may use the Patch Package in conjunction with the Code Changes to better support users with problematic conflicts during their update process or to help them update code sections.
- If you are a hoster/provider, you may want to use the Patch Files Package to update all of your client installations.
Download Locations
The download is of course available on our downloads page.
Our release archive provides all packages we build. If you do not find your desired package you can probably find it in the release archive.
These are the files with their md5 sums:
phpBB-3.0.12.zip (Full Package)
md5sum: e86ffc334ea53d934c0c1c0588429803
phpBB-3.0.12.tar.bz2 (Full Package)
md5sum: b841460cd4247e240e1b80d989e5fe4f
phpBB-3.0.12-patch.zip (Patch Files)
md5sum: 7bd14b89716e148d5174db279e9b8a3c
phpBB-3.0.12-patch.tar.bz2 (Patch Files)
md5sum: 13cb5dacebd5e151140b7a72184405ed
phpBB-3.0.12-files.zip (Changed Files)
md5sum: 8841d9d007bd7fd1549def08150f089f
phpBB-3.0.12-files.tar.bz2 (Changed Files)
md5sum: 393b3bb229e54da180e9adc8960c7b74
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12.zip (Automatic Update Package from 3.0.11)
md5sum: 2643ca75fcf365f27dc64f96aa8549bb
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12.tar.bz2 (Automatic Update Package from 3.0.11)
md5sum: 0d949e4de5c2161ac12d7dd99ad43f30
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12-codechanges.zip (Language and Style Code Changes)
md5sum: 56cbd3a3f1084814e2147fd24695f001
phpBB-3.0.11_to_3.0.12-codechanges.tar.bz2 (Language and Style Code Changes)
md5sum: 56a73d07cdd1c746908ab9d3e35f9462
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