Software update: phpBB 3.0.5

Sunday version 3.0.5 of phpBB was released. With this program it is possible to create a forum where visitors can discuss with each other. phpBB is made available under the gpl license and uses PHP and a database program to store messages. Besides MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, Firebird and SQLite are also supported as database software. The full list of changes since version 3.0.4 is in this topic on the phpBB forum, this is a summary of the most important improvements:

New features and important changes are:

• Added and refined CAPTCHA options to better protect against new version of CAPTCHA crackers.
• Added an option to the registration screen to allow users to refresh the displayed CAPTCHA.
• Performance improvements for native full text search.
• Added a new search option. The admin can define the maximum number of words allowed to search for. This option gives control about the maximum search load.
• Search indexing should no longer stall for some installations.
• Conflicting files are able to be downloaded now within the automatic updater for manual inspection.
• The database updater now checks for an incompatible database schema in case the database version got updated. The admin will be notified about possible solutions and repair scripts.
• We now set the connection encoding for MySQL versions 4.1.0 to 4.1.2. This may fix some conversion issues with special characters.
• Language pack authors now see errors/notices within their language pack if they enabled DEBUG_EXTRA.
• Flash files now display again after update to flash player 10.