We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB "Fast and Furrious" 3.0.6 package. This release fixes numerous bugs, introduces some major features, as well as improves stability and performance. Furthermore, the internal updater has been updated to detect and solve most conflicts, resulting in a reduction of necessary manual interaction by administrators.

Please note that we urge you to update. phpBB 3.0.6 fixes bugs being quite important for a smooth operation of your forums. With this release our support team will only give support for phpBB 3.0.6, updates to phpBB 3.0.6 and conversions to phpBB 3.0.6. Submissions to our trackers for older versions will not be accepted, please make sure you update/upgrade before you submit a bug report.

• 3.0.6 support
• ModX 1.2.3
• Multiple bugs fixed
• Pre-registration captcha removed
• A few sanity checks

• ModX 1.2.3
• Fixing minor ACP style issue with wrong colspan
• Adding ads/database.php file for debugging install issues
• Fix XHTML validation with accurate view count Bug #54
• Send headers in view/click count to make sure the browser does not cache the files (and therefor does not count page refreshes/changes with the same ad, multiple clicks).
• New Feature: My Advertisements page. Allows you to set users as owners of certain advertisements so they can visit a page to view the statistics on their advertisements. This feature is donated by olsserik.
• Note to translators: New language entries have been added, please update the translation packages.

• Some tiny changes.
• Using a UMIL installer now.
• ModX 1.2.3
• To update from 1.2.5 upload the root/includes/acp/acp_faq_manager.php file to includes/acp/acp_faq_manager.php.

• phpBB 3.0.6 support
• ModX 1.2.3
• Incorrectly syncing post counts when hard deleting posts directly #74
• Upload the new included files to update from 1.0.14
• Set post as unreported when soft-deleting #76

• Fixing the board link
• ModX 1.2.3
• To update from 1.0.2, change 'http://', generate_board_url() . "index.$phpEx" to 'http://', generate_board_url() . "/index.$phpEx" in adm/index.php

• Fixing some issues with URL generation reguarding usernames and other things
• Better URL rewriting rules (now we can handle usernames without the trailing slash!)
• Updating Captcha to work with 3.0.6
• Wrong date/time used in coda style. #57
• Do not allow PM subscriptions if PMs are disabled. #64
• Only load functions_display if required in the ucp (issue is probably related to some other mod). #67

• [Add] Add the ability to "mass demote" founders through the list founders tool. (Bug #51435)
• [Add] "Resync users with newly registered users group" tool. (Bug #52405)
• [Fix] "Recreate Module Management modules" tool now also re-enables the modules if required.
• [Fix] Set the correct language packs for phpBB <= 3.0.2. (Bug #51535)
• [Fix] Display correct messages when fields are filled out incorrectly in the add user tool. (Bug #52385)
• [Fix] Updates of UMIL break the Support Toolkit. (Bug #53375)

In an effort to increase product stability we are happy to announce the availability of the fourth release candidate for the next release - phpBB 3.0.6.

This fourth release candidate contains mostly regression fixes. Everyone able to should test this release and report critical bugs (those, stopping the operation of the forum) and issues to the bug tracker or directly to the developers.

• Fixed ticket #52875 working around php4 bug - call_user_func doesn't return references. This causes php4 to create a copy.
• Fixed cache issues in feed generation.
• Include default language in data to send for statistical purposes.
• Revert "Parse multiline url title for [url] BBCode tag" because it introduced different bugs.
• Fix sql_create_table (table creation) in db tools for mssql and sqlite.
• Fixed Ticket #53175 (forum_options cleared if editing forum) - regression from revision 10024.
• Fixed Ticket #53185 (icon width/height adjustement for icons > 127px also applied to smilies) - related to revision 10088.
• Adjusted email template admin_welcome_activated to be more descriptive (and in-line with the changes to the other email template files).
• Fixed Ticket #53245 - Notices in log searching feature.
• Fixed Ticket #53285 introduced in revision 10018 - Mark the first visible forum on index as unread if there's any unread global announcement.
• Implemented better way to generate SID-free links in feed.php
• Fixed Jabber SASL PLAIN authentication failures. (Bug #52995)
• Fixed severe bugs with Oracle and UPDATE statements.
• Fixed issues with database updater and Oracle/SQLite/Firebird.

• [Fix] Ignore missing @import files for themes. #48415
• [Fix] Error when uninstalling with table_row_ actions (was re-running the function). #48515
• [Fix] In some cases call_user_func_array errors when the second parameter is not an array. Setting up a new function to handle the multicall. #48825
• [Fix] Sending false for the second variable for the module_exists and module_remove function isn't possible (it should be for a feature it has). #51475, #51495
• [Fix] module_exists should accept a module_id to check for, as it is needed in some circumstances when adding or removing modules. #51485
• [Change] No longer using the sql_create_table function in db_tools if present, it still has bugs. May reconsider if phpBB starts using it.
• [Change] Cleaned up the table_row_ functions
• [Change] Setup get_output_text() to remove some duplicated code (also removed the result() function and replaced the calls with this)
• [Feature] Ability to specify before|after when adding a module (with the module_langname of the module you would like to have it placed before|after) #48425