Fembot Central Upgrade

[Spaz]

Even though we are still on the high of the most recent forum upgrade from PHPbb 3.0.x to 3.2.x which occurred just this recent September following the transfer of ownership from Robotman to TheShoveller, we now have yet another upgrade. Although PHPbb 3.2.x was new to us, it was released 3 years ago and has only received various maintenance releases since.

Now, we have the release of PHPbb 3.3.x, which will allow Fembot Central to stay up-to-date in the latest web standards, and security improvements. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtop ... &t=2534541
We will be able to upgrade the PHP backend from 7.2.x to 7.4.x, which will further improve page loading speeds from the major increase gained from the upgrade from PHP 5.6.x to 7.2.x back in September.

Blox_242 will be upgrading the forums to PHPbb 3.3.x as early as tomorrow evening, or possibly Thursday or Friday night, depending on his availability and the complexity of the upgrade. He will update you all further when he is about to get started, but be prepared for a planned Fembot Central outage in the coming days that will possibly last several hours.

For your convenience, FembotWiki will be unaffected by this outage, as well Fembot Labs.

Stay tuned...

[Blox_242]

And with that I have updated the board to PhpBB 3.3.0

[Spaz]

Folks, just an FYI that Blox has updated the forums to phpBB 3.3.1. This update is a maintenance/security release that has resolved the following issues:

Improvements

• Enable/disable mechanism for new profilefield types - Added new enable & disable mechanism for profile field types.

• Only one email notification per topic - Reduced emails sent as notifications when not having visited topic.

Notable Bug Fixes

• Slow search on PostgreSQL - Full text search on PostgreSQL was very slow due to accidentally disabled index.

• Emoji isues - Issues with using emojis in multiple text fields.

• Delete marked PMs in UCP - Improper form token check resulted in users being unable to delete marked PMs.

• File lock issues - Failure while acquiring locks on some storage backends resulted in errors while installing phpBB.

• Reset password error - Resetting a password resulted in an PHP fatal error being thrown.

For a full list of changes, please visit: https://wiki.phpbb.com/Release_Highlights/3.3.1