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phpBB 3.0 Beta1 Released

CGIDir
Monday, June 19, 2006; 03:09 AM

The phpBB team announced the release of the first beta of phpBB forum software. With the beta the testing phase for the new release has officially commenced.

phpBB is a scalable and customizable open source bulletin board package with a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. phpBB is a free community solution for web sites, based on the powerful PHP server language and either MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers.

During the beta phase a minimal level of support will be given. The development team will provide answers to general setup questions, configuration problems and support for determining common problems mostly related to bugs. No support wil be provided for modifications, custom code/style additions or any users using the beta packages within a live environment. Beginning with the release candidates full support will be given.

Within the beta packages several features are not included. These are the updater and the conversion tool for converting phpBB 2.0.x (and other packages) to phpBB 3.0.x. These might be included with later betas, but certainly with the first Release Candidate.

An initial quick start guide is available for use with the beta. The documentation will be evolving over the course of the beta and Release Candidate phases.

phpBB 3.0 Requirements:

A webserver or web hosting account running on any major Operating System with support for PHP
A SQL database system, one of:
- MySQL 3.23 or above (MySQLi supported)
- PostgreSQL 7.x
- SQLite
- Firebird 1.5+/Interbase 7.1+
- MS SQL Server 2000 or above (directly or via ODBC)
- Oracle
PHP 4.3.3 or above with support for the database you intend to use.
These optional presence of the following modules within PHP will provide access to additional features, but they are not required.
- zlib Compression support
- Remote FTP support
- XML support
- Imagemagick support