Well, we saw it coming long time ago, as development on PHP 4 was ceased in 2007 and phpbb 2.0 branch runs mainly on PHP 4 codebase, developers of phpbb found it unwise to continue support of outdated software and require people to install old PHP in order to use phpBB.

That’s why they announced retirement plans for phpBB 2.0.x:

1. Wednesday 1st October 2008 - download links will be removed from the download page at phpBB.com of course you can still download it from SourceForge.NET
2. Thursday 1st January 2009 - phpBB 2.0.x will be formally retired, and support will no longer be actively provided for 2.0.x. Converting from 2.0.x to 3.0.x will continue to be supported
3. Sunday 1st February 2009 - Security patches, if required, will be provided by this date

as for modifications for phpBB 2.0.x they will retire too:

1. July 1, 2008 - MODs for phpBB2 will no longer be accepted into the MOD Database. Updates to phpBB2 MODs that fix security issues will continue to be accepted. [2.0.x] MOD Writers Discussion and [2.0.x] MOD Requests forums will be set to read only. [2.0.x] MODs in Development will be changed to not allow new topics but replying to existing topics will still be allowed. [2.0.x] MOD Database Releases forum will not change and will continue to operate the same way it has been.
2. February 1, 2009 - all submissions of phpBB2 MODs will no longer be accepted into the MOD Database. [2.0.x] MODs in Development and [2.0.x] MOD Database Releases will be switched to read only.
3. May 1, 2009 - all of the forums will be closed and hidden from public view. All downloads for phpBB2 MODs will be removed from this site.

phpbb 2.0.x is dead, long live phpbb 3.0.x

It’s been a while and phpbb team was working hard on stability and security. Lot’s of bugs were fixed and some of them were critical, plus 2 minor security related bugs.

Good news is that they still continue to support phpBB 2.0.23 branch.

For full list of what has been changed, you can go [HERE]

So, have fun with latest opensource forum software phpbb3

Or just [GET] your copy for fresh install or test drive

Good news everyone infamous Invision power board just got updated, at the same time, another product from invision IP.Downloads Manager got upgrade up to 1.2.0

While IP.Board got only maintenance only release, IP.Downloads Manager got some new features, some of them are:

• Estimated download times popup
• Lightbox integration for screenshots (optional)
• Reversed page titles on file information pages (SEO suggestion from James)
• When editing file, indicate that the file is still present
• Optionally add individual custom fields to auto-generated topics
• Ability to search custom fields
• AJAX-enabled progress meter for uploads (Requires PHP 5.2 and APC to be installed on the server)
• Portal plugin: random files
• Portal plugin: top downloads
• Search by title/description/both option (does not apply to soundex search method)
• Ability to email download link
• …

please note that it was also converted to a component from a module, and acts like fully-featured one-click file hosting to me

as of IPB 2.3.4 it got tons of bugfixes, you can see whole story here: http://forums.invisionpower.com/index.php?showtopic=268367