phpBB 3.3.14 Release

[Marc]

Greetings everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.14 “Bertie All Along”. This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which introduces a number of improvements aimed at enhancing the user experience and overall stability of the software and resolves some issues noticed in previous releases.

The improvements include the introduction of separate lists for disabled and not installed Extensions in the ACP as well as the addition of the ability to force reparsing BBCodes via the command line interface (CLI).

We fixed an issue that resulted in AJAX errors when deleting cookies on some pages and added proper handling of E_USER_ERROR in PHP 8.4. Furthermore, an issue with occasionally incorrect results displaying in the trace permission feature and non-working pages when testing out user’s permissions have been resolved. Another issue that resulted in missing buttons for approving new topics or posts has also been fixed.

The full list of changes is available in the changelog file within the docs folder contained in the release package. You can find the key highlights of this release below and a list of all issues fixed on our tracker at https://tracker.phpbb.com/issues/?filter=16691

The packages can be downloaded from our downloads page.

The development team thanks everyone who contributed code to this release: rxu, Daniel James, Jeff Verkoeyen, Matt Friedman, battye

If you have any questions or comments, we'll be happy to address them in the discussion topic.

- The phpBB Team

[Marc]

Release highlights

• Notable Improvements
  • Distinct disabled and not installed Extensions in ACP: PHPBB-17359
  • Support force reparsing BBCodes via CLI: PHPBB-17402
• Notable Bugfixes
  • AJAX error on deleting cookies: PHPBB-17398
  • Passing E_USER_ERROR to trigger_error in PHP 8.4: PHPBB-17384
  • Incorrect permission trace results: PHPBB-17386
  • UCP not working when testing user’s permissions: PHPBB-17410

[Marc]

Event changes

PHP Events

• core.bump_topic_allowed_after
  Placement: includes/functions_content.php
  Arguments: bump_time, forum_id, last_post_time, last_topic_poster, topic_bumped, topic_poster
  Added in Release: 3.3.14-RC1
  Explanation: Event to run code after the topic bump checks

• core.bump_topic_allowed_before
  Placement: includes/functions_content.php
  Arguments: forum_id, last_post_time, last_topic_poster, topic_bumped, topic_poster
  Added in Release: 3.3.14-RC1
  Explanation: Event to run code before the topic bump checks

• core.search_auth_check_override
  Placement: search.php
  Arguments: search_auth_check_override
  Added in Release: 3.3.14-RC1
  Explanation: This event allows you to override search auth checks

• core.viewforum_modify_sql
  Placement: viewforum.php
  Arguments: sql_ary
  Added in Release: 3.3.14-RC1
  Explanation: You can use this event to modify the sql that selects the forum on the viewforum page.

Template Events

• None

ACP Template Events

• acp_ext_list_not_installed_name_after
  Placement: acp_ext_list.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.14-RC1
  Explanation: Add content after the name of not installed extensions in the list

• acp_ext_list_not_installed_title_after
  Placement: acp_ext_list.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.14-RC1
  Explanation: Add text after not installed extensions section title.