What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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What is the best way to keep track of constant PhpBB changes happening ?
Someone finds out a bug, asks for solution here on support forum, and sometimes is redirected to github.com about the changes.
For example, 'pagination bug' just posted here : viewtopic.php?t=2657620
And this was my issue : viewtopic.php?t=2656960

Forum owners are not going to realize until they face the similar problems on their forum.
So, any way to keep track of such constant changes easily ?
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Re: What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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Keeping your board on the current phpBB version? This will ensure that you have all the known and fixed bugs ironed out.
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Re: What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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Keep an eye on the Announcements forum. That is where releases, with their details of Release Highlights (Notable Improvements and Notable Bugfixes), are officially announced.

There should also be notification in ACP if you are not running the current release.

Generally ignore the GitHub repository mentions, that is the source code for use by the development team. Sometimes solutions with references to a GitHub pull request are mentioned, however most often those are not part of an official release and should not be applied to a live board.
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Re: What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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I see. Thank you. I will keep checking Announcements.
My forum is full of small changes I usually make to meet my personal needs(many due to non-English, non-Latin characters forum). Sometimes I find whats not working, so I ask here and fix the code.
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Re: What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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Well, if someone wants to track every change to phpBB core, then it's as easy as registering on github.com and starting to watch all the phpbb repo activity.

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Re: What is the best way to keep track of PhpBB update changes ?

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Just did it. Thank you :)

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