I am currently on a job at Woodford Folk Festival. The first two days were very wet: a constant rain turned much of the festival site (including camp sites) into a bit of mudfest. Today the weather has improved and we’re enjoying the sun. The weather however has not deterred people from having a whole lot of fun. More to follow soon.

The next major upgrade of phpBB is finally among us. My hat off to the developers of this fine piece of open source forum software.

This release sports a large number of improvements and functional additions. Based on my tests with v3 beta installations personal favourites include:

• general usability enhancements
• improvements to default forum style
• creation of subforums
• password protected forums
• admin can now set global moderators
• multiple group leaders for usergroups
• banning by IP address (previously possible by applying a hack)
• active topics search
• disallow non-registered user memberlist viewing (previously possible by applying a hack)

Further Reading

• press announcement
• feature comparison