We are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 3.3.0-RC1 "Bertie's holiday preparations". This is the first release candidate of the upcoming phpBB 3.3.0 feature release and introduces minor changes and new functionality.
Among the biggest changes are the updated third party dependencies like Symfony that result in the minimum supported PHP version increasing to PHP 7.1 while also adding support for PHP 7.3 and 7.4. New features include increased Emoji support, support for the latest Argon2id and Argon2i password hashing, as well as refactoring of the OAuth implementation and small UI adjustments like an updated phpBB logo.
The full changelog is available in the changelog file within the docs folder contained in the release package. You can find the key highlights of this release candidate on the wiki at https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.3.0-RC1 and a list of all issues fixed on our tracker at https://tracker.phpbb.com/issues/?filter=15192
The packages can be downloaded from our Area51 downloads site and our package archive.
The development team thanks everyone who contributed code to this release: rxu, 3D-I, JoshyPHP, mrgoldy, Alfredo Ramos, Matt Friedman, KYPREO, Sage Pointer
If you have any questions or comments, we'll be happy to address them in the discussion topic.
- The phpBB Team
Release Highlights
Notable Changes
- Further stability improvements PHPBB3-16228 PHPBB3-16241 PHPBB3-16211
- Refactored session cleanup PHPBB3-15294
- New SVG version of phpBB logo PHPBB3-16248
- Cron tasks not running on some Apache servers PHPBB3-16226
- Multiple issues with sample config files PHPBB3-16242 PHPBB3-16258