Download phpBB 2.0.22

More than half a year after the last update of phpBB 2.0 and seeing four betas of version 3.0 come along, an official final version is finally available. Brandsrus, Tsunami and EdwinG informed us that this new version of the widely used free (under GPL conditions) forum software is in our midst. phpBB uses PHP and a database program to store, store and retrieve messages. The supported database software is: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft Access. On the download page phpBB 2.0.22 is available in several variants. The makers emphasize that it is important to update both the files and the database. The changelog lists six fixes and five security bugs that have been fixed, to be precise:

[Fix] Check for user’s existence prior to showing email form
[Fix] New members of moderator groups should always become moderators (Bug #382)
[Fix] Proper message when replying to non-existent topics (Bug #459)
[Fix] Changed column type of search_array to store more ids (Bug #4058)
[Fix] Fixed annoyance with font-size selector (Bug #4612)
[Fix] Fix optimize line in database updater (Bug #6186)
[Sec] Check for the avatar upload directory reinforced
[Sec] Changes to the criteria for “bad” redirection targets – kellanved
[Sec] Fixed a non-persistent XSS issue in private messaging
[Sec] Fixing possible negative start parameter – SpiderZ.
[Sec] Added session checks to various forms – kellanved