Just one month after phpBB 3.0.3 release, it is phpBB 3.0.4 now.
I upgrade my forum to 3.0.4. It is not that difficult. I like to use automatic update package to do the upgrade, because that I have many changes on the original release. Automatic update package can merge the changes I made with the upgrade files.
Let’s go through the improvements or changes on phpBB 3.0.4
* [Fix] Allow mixed-case template directories to be inherited (Bug #36725)
* [Fix] Regression bug from revision #8908 regarding log display in ACP
* [Fix] Allow the UCP group management to work for groups with avatars. (Bug #37375)
* [Fix] Fix header list build for replying oldest PM in PM history (Bug #37275)
* [Fix] Do not display COPPA group in memberlist find member dialog if COPPA disabled (Bug #37175)
* [Fix] Do not try to send jabber notifications if no jid entered (Bug #36775)
* [Fix] Only display special ranks to guests; no longer display normal ranks for guests (Bug #36735)
* [Fix] Properly treat punctuation marks after local urls (Bug #37055)
* [Fix] Make searching for members by YIM address work in prosilver
* [Fix] Tell users to recreate the search index after changing the common word threshold for fulltext_native (Bug #36345)
* [Fix] Adjusted phpbb_chmod() to always set permissions for group bit.
* [Fix] Do not increment users post count after post approval if post had been posted in a forum with no post count increasing set (Bug #37865)
* [Fix] Extend vertical line for last post column if no posts in forum (Bug #37125)
* [Fix] correctly update last topic/forum information if changing guest usernames through editing posts (Bug #38095)
* [Fix] fix postcount resync for situations where low and high post ids are higher than step value, resulting in users having 0 posts. (Bug #38195)
* [Fix] Use a left join for the topics table on search to avoid trouble with FROM syntax on some databases (Bug #37005)
* [Fix] Do not show ‘Forward’ button if the user cannot send PM’s
* [Change] Alllow applications to set custom module inclusion path (idea by HoL)
* [Change] Handle checking for duplicate usernames in chunks (Bug #17285 – Patch by A_Jelly_Doughnut)
* [Change] Better handling and finer control for custom profile fields visibility options. (Patch by Highway of Life)
* [Change] Performance increase for format_date() (Bug #37575 – Patch by BartVB)
* [Change] Changed prosilver date separator from ‘on’ to ‘»’
* [Change] Performance increase for get_username_string() (Bug #37545 – Patch by BartVB)
* [Change] Slight performance increase for common parameter calls to append_sid() (Bug #37555 – Patch by BartVB)
* [Feature] Added ‘AGO’ setting to relative date strings. For example: posted 14 minutes ago. (Patch by BartVB)
* [Sec] Fixed an issue where deactivated accounts could be re-activated without the required privileges. (Reported by Jorick)
* [Sec] Ask for forum password if post within passworded forum quoted in private message. (Reported by nickvergessen)
