phpBB 3.3.13 Release

[Marc]

Greetings everyone,

We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.13 “Bertie & Ted”. 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 Gravatar URLs now using the updated URL format, an enhanced user interface for removing PM recipients, as well as the possibility to remove users by ID via the command line interface. Error handling in PHP 8 has also been improved for errors that were previously suppressed intentionally.

An issue that was introduced in 3.3.12 and resulted in the “new posts” page being updated too often that caused new posts to disappear has been resolved. Further notable fixes include the automatic rehashing of phpBB2 passwords after an upgrade as well as reCAPTCHA in cases where form validation errors were encountered during the registration phase.

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=16491

The packages can be downloaded from our downloads page.

The development team thanks everyone who contributed code to this release: Daniel James, rxu, battye, LukeWCS, Micha Ober, crowjake

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
  • Delete Users by ID via console: PHPBB-17347
  • Gravatar Avatar URL Update: PHPBB-17355
  • Enhanced PM Recipient Removal: PHPBB-17317
  • Better Error Handling in PHP 8: PHPBB-17356
• Notable Bugfixes
  • User lastvisit update frequency: PHPBB-17375
  • Rehashing of phpBB2 passwords via cron after upgrade: PHPBB-17351
  • reCAPTCHA issues with registration errors: PHPBB-17366

[Marc]

Event changes

PHP Events

• None

Template Events

• ucp_group_settings_after
  Prosilver Placement: ucp_groups_manage.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.13-RC1
  Explanation: Add content after options for managing a group in the UCP

• ucp_group_settings_before
  Prosilver Placement: ucp_groups_manage.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.13-RC1
  Explanation: Add content before options for managing a group in the UCP

ACP Template Events

• acp_groups_add_user_options_after
  Placement: acp_groups.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.13-RC1
  Explanation: Add content after options for adding user to group in the ACP

• acp_groups_add_user_options_before
  Placement: acp_groups.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.13-RC1
  Explanation: Add content before options for adding user to group in the ACP

• acp_groups_add_user_usernames_before
  Placement: acp_groups.html
  Added in Release: 3.3.13-RC1
  Explanation: Add content before usernames option for adding user to group in the ACP