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phpBB 3.1 styles will not be updated for 3.2 for several reasons:
Due to many changes styles have to be re-coded. It would take too much time.
Maintaining styles for 3 software packages is too much, so I'll be abandoning phpBB styles in favor of WordPress themes.
phpBB 3.1/3.2 extension system. Template hooks make it very hard to customize styles. Injecting code into template makes it impossible to customize that code, injection points must remain in templates, making it impossible to change anything. It is a very bad system. Other forums have used better systems for many years before phpBB 3.1 was released: using template variables instead of injecting code, splitting templates into smaller reusable chunks, template modifications that can handle regular expressions.
phpBB 3.1 styles will not be maintained anymore.


Working on XenForo and WordPress takes all my available time, there is no time left for phpBB. Because of that there won't be any new phpBB styles. There will be some support for styles for phpBB 3.1, these styles will be updated for compatibility with latest phpBB 3.1. phpBB 3.0 styles will be gone. Eventually phpBB 3.1 styles will be gone as well. Anyone who wants to update styles for phpBB 3.2 is welcome to do that and release updated styles on phpbb.com