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MyBB 1.8.0

2 September 2014

MyBB version 1.8.0 is now available (major release).

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What's New in MyBB 1.8.0

It is with the highest honor that we release MyBB 1.8 Gold to the general public.

Admin CP and Front-End

Remove PHP Closing tags - #979
Performance improvement: intval to (int) conversion - #491
Update 3rd part libraries - #957
Warnings class/datahandler - #922
Hide signtature of users to certain groups - #949
Hide website links/buttons from certain groups - #922
Add more hooks - #555 #882
Allow custom flash messages - #881
Allow website field for certain groups only - #808

Admin CP

New theme - #561
AdminCP PIN - #38
Improved Newsfeed - #562
Replace CodePress with CodeMirror - #37
Stylesheet Display order - #562
Inactive/active Plugin list - #573
Ability to create own template groups - #588
Added Enabled/Disabled indicators to Promotions and MyCodes - #457
Template groups updates - #452
Disable Attachments Globally - #495
ACP Banning Improvements - #628 #554
Selectable areas for group/forum settings. - #428
Warning for marked vulnerable plugins. - #0147b08
ACP shouldn't reset $mybb->input - #754
Admin CP language - #690
Disable Default MyCodes - #686
More recount tools - #494
Option to disable contact details - #900
Log all ‘locked out' failures in ACP - #859
Add reported posts stats to ACP - #858
Delayed moderation improvements - #440
New Promotion rules - #429

Front-end: New Theme - #571

CSS buttons, PNG images, Sprite images, Fugue icons - #571
Attachable base colors for themes - #580
Relative Time - #558
Prototype to jQuery Conversion (yay!) - #251
Attachment Types Name - #442
CSS Minification - #564

Front-end: Other

Add ltrim() to search users input - #590
Change trim() in templates to rtrim() - #584
A tool to rebuild reputation - #591
Contact Page - #592 #715
Ability to delete default help topics - #589
If user is invisible & permissions disallow, hide all public data - #593
Post reputation should include thread subject - #594
Remove Gallery; Integrate Gravatar - #582 #586
Delete post on full edit should not show if no permission to delete - #595
Add option to stick/unstick to custom tools - #435
PM thread author in custom tools for threads - #581
Users cannot rate their own posts - #570
format_avatar() function - #569
Whitelist of avatar upload extensions - #568
Preview announcements - #567
Minimum post length to exclude MyCode - #566
IPv6 features - #565
APC cache handler - #574
$cache->delete method - #575
is_member() function - #576
delete_user() function - #408
IP addresses in PMs - #563
Don't ask for validation if validation is disabled - #577
Slow reply posting in long threads - #578
Soft Delete - #560
Login Datahandler - #572
Add theme selector to footer - #496
Forum redirect icon - #453
Permission to reply to own threads - #409
ModCP banned users list descending by default - #138
Quick Reply PM - #437
Poll Updates (Add poll link to thread page; limit of time before a thraed author can no longer add a poll) - #456
Update contact fields - #455
Are You a Human CAPTCHA - #443
Report Center - #556
Ability to sort Private Messages in inbox and other folders - #70
Recount Warning Points - #85
Warning points as a Group Promotion criteria - #88
Registration date and last active time as mass mail criteria - #100
Display profile fields on posts - #133
Add "Display posts in classic mode" option when editing user in Admin CP - #107
Move Edit Time Limit and Max Post Per Day to group settings - #114
Recount Private Messages - #132
Hide members from the Member List - #142
Force redirect page - #550
Searching plugins will highlight vulnerable ones (requires new Mods site) - Commit Link
Update $groupzerogreater array - #809
CDN Compatbility - #776
Goodbye Spammer - #775
Add Time Zones - #764
Thread Count - #761
Buddy System Enhancements - #757
Remove Hardcoded HTML - #756
Database optimization - #738
Overqualified Selectors - #976 #700
Subscription PM notification option - #689
Expand Forum Moderator permissions - #688
Add profile fields on registration - #687
Admin and Email activation option - #685
Publicly shown poll end date - #587
CAPTCHA Improvements - #557
Search Help Files - #497
Invite-only joinable groups - #493
Maximum Nested Quote Tags for PMs - #492
Hide stuff users don't have permission to use - #454
Edit Reason - #451
Add to mycode - #450
User option to disable images/videos - #449
Moderation Tools Improvements - #435
Forum Statistics Improvements - #434 #824
Profile Fields Enhancements - #433
Using update_query with BIT(1) fields - #360
inline_moderation.js friendly to table-less themes - #915
Memberlist sorting - #914
Force Login - #906
Add class to smilies - #905
AJAX for security questions - #894
Add get_user_by_username() helper function - #893
find_replace_templates() accepts SID - #889
$this->options in class_parser.php - #880
Add class to announcements - #879
Make forum friendly to outside pages - #878
Change showthread.php icons to sprite - #877
Add rebuild settings to cache tools - #875
Add email description editing to editor - #869
Add video sites to editor - #862
Check new members against StopForumSpam - #860
Jump to Page in pagination - #857
send_pm() should consider users' language - #834
Image re-scaling and long words/text wrapping CSS/HTML changes - #816
Moderate Groups - #439
Portal Improvements - #436
Moderation Notifications - #430
Thread Prefix system improvements - #427
Ability to Stop tracking all messages - #364
Settings description on installation - #197
Add Template::render method - #1344