It is that time of year again! No, its not Christmas it is time for yet another FUDforum release :-). As usual we start with RC1 and follow it up with the stable final in short order.

This release is going to be a mostly bug fix oriented version with a number minor features enchantments. You can download the installer or upgrade script at the listed links.

If you don't want to read the complete changelog (whole 19 entries of it listed below) here are some highlights.

• Added RSS links to several pages to simplify getting feeds from the forum.
• phpBB2 converter fixes.
• You can now turn on captcha validation for anonymous user postings (BIG help in comment spam reduction).
• French translation is now fully up to date.

Complete ChangeLog

• Fixes to the external fud login/logout API.
• A number of PostgreSQL query fixes.
• Improved indexing for multibyte text.
• MySQL 4.1 optimizations for making forum read.
• Adjust PDO driver to work with latest 5.1 release (use class constants).
• Added subscribed limiter to PDF generator.
• Added visible RSS links.
• Unify input escaping mechanism for SQL queries.
• Use aliases to match nntp/mailing list users to forum users.
• Start counting ALL online users.
• Updated the French translation.
• Made all <script> tags w3c compliant.
• Added optional turing/captcha validation for posts made by anonymous users.
• Fixed phpBB2 to FUDforum conversion script.
• Added forum/category limiters to statistics admin panel.
• Disallow adding people who ignore you to your own buddy list and when user is ignored automatically remove you from their buddy list
• When viewing unread messages order them in descending order.
• Added an option to notify forum subscribers on all new messages made in the forum.
• Various code cleanups.