February 18th, 2008 by admin
The phpBB team has just released phpBB 2.0.23. This release addresses several bugfixes and
some security issues.
The changelog (contained within this release) is as follows:
- Correctly re-assign group moderator on user deletion (Bug
#280)
- Deleting a forum with multiple polls included (Bug #6740)
- Fixed postgresql query for obtaining group moderator in
groupcp.php (Bug #6550)
- Selected field on first entry by default for font size within
posting_body.tpl (Bug #7124)
- Adjusted maxlength parameters in admin/styles_edit_body.tpl
(Bug #81)
- Fixed html output in make_forum_select if no forums present
(Bug #436)
- Fixed spelling error(s) in lang_admin.php (Bug #7172, #6978)
- Correctly display censored words in admin panel (Bug #12271)
- Do not allow soft hyphen xAD in usernames (reported by
Bander00)
- Fixed the group permission system’s use of array access
- Simple group permissions now work properly
- Fix inability to export smilies (Bug #2265)
- Fixing some problems with PHP5 and register_long_arrays off
- Fix possible XSRF Vulnerability in private messaging and
groups handling
As usual, we at phpBBnow.com take our forums security very seriously and have immediately applied the upgrade. Therefore, all forums have now the leates release of phpBB2.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you once again for your continous support.
November 24th, 2007 by admin
As of this week phpbbnow.com forums can have their own domain name. This way, if your forum currently is http://yourforum.phpbbnow.com it can become http://www.yourforum.com
After we set your forum up to use a domain, it will accessible both through the new domain and the current phpbbnow.com subdomain. Of course no changes or loss of data are necessasry when activating the new domain. And best of all, this service comes absolutely free.
All you need is a domain name which has to be previously registered at any authorised ICAN or country registrar. Both international domains, like .com or .org, or country domains, like .us or .co.uk are valid. When you have a domain name, please submit a ticket at http://support.phpbbnow.com with a request for your domain to be setup for your forum.
November 24th, 2007 by admin
As from today a new support desk is replacing our old community support forum. Support request will have to be filed now at http://support.phpbbnow.com and will be dealt directly by a support team representative. A new ticket tracking system will allow us to better deal and respond to your support needs.
November 24th, 2007 by admin
Yesterday, at about 7.30PM EST we were victims of a DoS attack and forums have been down for several hours.
Currently we are investigating the source of the DoS attack and whether a specific forum was targeted. Also we are enabling countermeasures in orther to ensure our services keep online during future similar attacks.
For those of you who do not know what a DoS attack is, here is a link to the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack
We apologise for the downtime.
October 19th, 2007 by admin
Yesterday we did the move of our MySQL database to a separate server. As a result of this, forums were offline for a few hours, just the time necessary to make the move.
As we grow this has become necessary in order to improve performance and data safety. Also, this helps us prepare for the close launch of our new phpBB3 forums and our premium forum service, expected for November.
October 4th, 2007 by admin
As forum administrators were getting general SQL errors when updating any user options, we have relaoded the UploadPic database updates.
As of now on you should not see any SQL errors when dealing with your users options. However, as a result of the database updates, you may need to re-run the install script as explained here. Any pictures you have formerly uploaded are still there and you should be able to use them after reinstalling the script.
September 28th, 2007 by admin
Until now images uploaded by users to the forums were hosted at an external image hosting service, postimage.org. However recently we have received complaints that adult advertising was being displayed with those images, even for children oriented forums. Therefore we had taken the decision to implement the UploadPic Mod.
Continue reading ‘UploadPic Mod installed’
September 27th, 2007 by admin
If you have a forum hosted at phpBBnow.com chances are you saw some green underlined words in your posts. This is a new advertising method that we have integrated into the forums in order to cover the expenses of the new state-of-the-art server.
Continue reading ‘ContentLink ads’
September 27th, 2007 by admin
phpBBnow.com is now hosted in a new server.
Our former server was getting slower and slower at peak times and we had to quickly take a decision.
Continue reading ‘New server’