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