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I am saddened to announce that as of today, I will no longer be leading the Styles Team. Due to personal circumstances, I am no longer able to devote the time required to continue serving the role of Styles Team Leader. I would love to continue my ... [More] journey here but it is unfair for the Styles Team and community as a whole to have a team leader that is not able to devote himself completely to the tasks at hand.It has been a pleasure working closely with such a distinct group of people. I look forward to returning in the future and seeing the project progress to even greater heights.Marshalrusty will temporarily head the Styles Team until a suitable replacement is found at a later time.EDIT: If you would like to share your thoughts and thank yous you may do so here [Less]

I am saddened to announce that as of today, I will no longer be leading the Styles Team. Due to personal circumstances, I am no longer able to devote the time required to continue serving the role of Styles Team Leader. I would love to continue my ... [More] journey here but it is unfair for the Styles Team and community as a whole to have a team leader that is not able to devote himself completely to the tasks at hand.It has been a pleasure working closely with such a distinct group of people. I look forward to returning in the future and seeing the project progress to even greater heights.Marshalrusty will intermittently head the Styles Team until a suitable replacement is found at a later time.EDIT: If you would like to share your thoughts and thank yous you may do so here [Less]

I am saddened to announce that as of today, I will no longer be leading the Styles Team. Due to personal circumstances, I am no longer able to devote the time required to continue serving the role of Styles Team Leader. I would love to continue my ... [More] journey here but it is unfair for the Styles Team and community as a whole to have a team leader that is not able to devote himself completely to the tasks at hand.It has been a pleasure working closely with such a distinct group of people. I look forward to returning in the future and seeing the project progress to even greater heights.Marshalrusty will intermittently head the Styles Team until a suitable replacement is found at a later time. [Less]

After the phpBB core migrated to GitHub earlier this year, most of the sub-projects have now been moved as well. The initiative begun during the Libertyvasion conference, where we moved the UMIL, AutoMOD and MPV repositories. After that the ... [More] customisation database and the support toolkit followed. Last night we moved the remaining MOD team projects: [...] [Less]

After an extended delay (thanks Murphy!), we are proud to announce that the recorded sessions from Libertyvasion 2010 are now available for viewing.All of the sessions from the Main Event, as well as the Workshop, can be found on the updated ... [More] Libertyvasion page. You will also find listed various photo galleries from Team Members and attendees of the event.We would like to apologize for the long delay to make these available to the community, and thank everyone for their patience.We would like to thank all those who attended the conference for their support, and the community as a whole for providing us with the resources necessary to make Libertyvasion 2010 possible.You may discuss this announcement here: [Discuss] Libertyvasion Videos Posted! [Less]

Hi,The Support team is pleased to announce the release of Support Toolkit 1.0.2, this release is a maintenance release resolving a number of issues and introduces some changes aimed at overall usability of the STK.New features:With this release the ... [More] Support Toolkit is extended with the following new features.[Add] Added a way to force the BOM sniffer to check all files within the phpBB path. (Bug #62186)[Add] Added Emergency Repair Kit. (Bug #62202)[Add] Added a SRT generator, which tries to pre-fill some important pieces of information. (Bug #62280)Changes:Besides new features, this release includes some larger changes to system.[Change] Use a whitelist of files that will be ran through the BOM sniffer. (Bug #62183)[Change] The BOM sniffer will create a backup the files in which it found issues.[Change] Database won't run the same check twice when no changes where detected for a given step.[Change] Try to overwrite the PHP time and memory limits, this might prevent some issues.Bug fixes:This release fixes the following bugs.[Fix] The style dir critical repair tool doesn't recognise non-installed styles. (Bug #62130)[Fix] In some environments the database cleaner breaks when no changes are found. (Bug #62180, Patch by VSE)[Fix] Force sorting when loading database cleaner data files. (Bug #62180, Patch by Noxwizard)[Fix] Correctly handle the restore deleted users tool when there are no deleted users. (Bug #62181)[Fix] Removed some php ≥ 5.0.0 code.[Fix] Automatic critical repair tools wheren't ran. (Bug #62194)[Fix] Reparse all BBCodes fail. (Bug #62203)[Fix] Private message senders get changed after merge users tool has merged PMs. (Bug #62247, Patch by ToonArmy)[Fix] A couple of language related issues.[Fix] Log the user out when using the STK logout method and using the phpBB buildin login method.[Fix] Fixed an issue that broke backward compatibility with phpBB versions prior to 3.0.3.[Fix] Correctly re-add all modules when "reset modules" in the database cleaner is ran. (Bug #62429)[Fix] Make sure that the STK is able to run when the user has UMIL < 1.0.3 installed. (Bug #62430)[Fix] Prevent bots from being buplicated in the user groups table when the database cleaner is ran. (Bug #62434)[Fix] Maintain the user signature options when reparsing signatures. (Bug #62451)[Fix] Remove PHP 5 only code from the Merge users tool. (Bug #62458)Download:The new packages can be downloaded from the STK section in the CDB.Updating:When updating from any older Support Toolkit version first delete the old "stk/" directory before uploading the new version.If you are unfamiliar with the toolkit, please see the Support Toolkit page.As always, assistance with installation, updating or any of the tools provided with the Toolkit is available in the Support Forum. Please submit any bugs/suggestions to the Support Team Tools bugtracker.Thank you, and enjoy.The phpBB TeamYou may discuss this announcement in the [Discuss] Support Toolkit 1.0.2 released topic. [Less]

Most of you have probably already seen the blog post regarding the RFC process for hook locations to be added to Ascraeus (phpBB 3.1). And many of you may not know what a hook system actually is, so I will take the time to explain it. In Olympus (phpBB 3.0) all new additions to the [...]

The Styles Team is pleased to announce the formation of the Junior Style Validators team. Similar to its counterpart on the MOD Team, the JSV Team will be composed of community members who assist the Styles Team in validating user-submitted styles ... [More] within the Customisation Database.Their role will include testing styles to ensure that everything displays and functions correctly and that they adhere with the rules set in place by the Styles Submission Policy. They will also be the first responders when a submission enters the Styles Database, which consists of quickly checking submissions and pointing out those that contain major issues. We hope that by opening up the validation process to style authors and community members in general, we'll be able to improve our own policies and understanding within the community of how the Styles Team functions. The Styles Team has been quite small over the past few years in comparison to the other core teams and thus we hope that this will provide another source of potential candidates for full membership that will be extensively prepared for their jobs as validators.The requirements for becoming a Junior Style Validator are very simple and are as follows: Must have comprehensive knowledge of xHTML, CSS, phpBB's default styles, and the templating system. Be able to communicate effectively in English. Be familiar with the Styles Submission Policy.If you're interested in becoming a Junior Style Validator, you can fill out an application here.Thank you,The phpBB Styles Team------------------------Please discuss this announcement in the [Discuss] Junior Style Validators topic. [Less]

Hello everyone,We have recovered from an unexpected database-related software malfunction affecting http://www.phpbb.com. The site was taken offline around 12 hours ago to repair errors and check integrity. We were able to preserve all data so you ... [More] should be able to pick up where you left off.The error was not caused by the phpBB software. Since several people asked on IRC, I would also like to emphasise that this error was not security-related in any way.If you find anything not working as expected, please file a ticket in our website bug tracker.We apologise for the inconvenience and welcome you back to the site.The phpBB Team [Less]

Last week, some six dozen people, invited guests, interested users, and team members gathered in New York City’s Times Square to talk phpBB. I’ll steal one of Douglas’s moments of zen from his concluding talk. He posed the question Why are you here?, and received responses such as the following: - To dedicate some time [...]