phpBB 3.3.6 Release

[Marc]

Greetings everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.6 “The Book of Bertie”. This version is a maintenance release of the 3.3.x branch which introduces support for SVG and WebP images in ranks, smilies, and topic icons, as well as improved performance of the phpBB native search engine. It also resolves various issues reported in previous versions.

The fixes include, among others, the topic selection not properly working on Moderator Control Panel (MCP) pages and resolved issues with double-escaping of config data inserted into the database.
We also introduced further hardening in the form of longer random strings for the activation keys and resetting the login keys after a password change.

In addition to these, we have decided to rename the Automatic Update to Advanced Update. This was done in order to more clearly state that this is no longer the recommended update method for phpBB installations without changes to core files. The downloads page now features an “Update” tab with instructions on how to update your board the recommended way.

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=15990

The packages can be downloaded from our downloads page.

The development team thanks everyone who contributed code to this release: rxu, 3D-I, Dark❶, Arshid, Christian Schnegelberger, DSR!, MichaIng, Mikir

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
  • Improved phpBB native search performance: PHPBB3-16940
  • Support for SVG and Webp in ranks, smilies, and topic icons: PHPBB3-16899
  • Improved handling of email encoding: PHPBB3-16900 PHPBB3-16912
• Notable Bugfixes
  • Issues with double escaping of data inserted into database config: PHPBB3-16924
  • Topic selection not working in MCP: PHPBB3-16904
• Hardening:
  • Use longer random string for activation key
  • Reset reset token info when re-activating account

[Marc]

Event changes

PHP Events

• core.modify_default_attachments_template_vars
  Placement: includes/functions_posting.php
  Arguments: allowed_attachments, default_vars
  Added in Release: 3.3.6-RC1
  Explanation: Modify default attachments template vars

• core.notification_manager_add_notifications_before
  Placement: phpbb/notification/manager.php
  Arguments: add_notifications_override, data, notification_type_name, notified_users, options
  Added in Release: 3.3.6-RC1
  Explanation: Get notification data before find_users_for_notification() execute

• core.phpbb_mail_after
  Placement: includes/functions_messenger.php
  Arguments: additional_parameters, eol, headers, msg, result, subject, to
  Added in Release: 3.3.6-RC1
  Explanation: Execute code after sending out emails with PHP's mail function

• core.phpbb_mail_before
  Placement: includes/functions_messenger.php
  Arguments: additional_parameters, eol, headers, msg, subject, to
  Added in Release: 3.3.6-RC1
  Explanation: Modify data before sending out emails with PHP's mail function

Template Events

• None

ACP Template Events

• None