phpBB 3.1.5
17 June 2015
phpBB version 3.1.5 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to phpBB 3.1.5
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What's New in phpBB 3.1.5
This version is a maintenance and security release of the 3.1.x branch which fixes one content permission issue and a number of bugs, as well as adds new events as entry points for extensions to modify phpBB's behaviour.
Security and Hardening
- Hardening: Use autocomplete=off for password fields
- Hardening: Do not populate password fields in the ACP settings with the old password - Thanks Fortify Open Source Review for suggesting
- Content Permissons: Post subjects from protected subforums were listed incorrectly on the forum index in the following two scenarios: 1. Forum that has no forum password has a subforum with a password. 2. Forum with read permissions has a subforum without read permissions "Can read forum", but with list permissions "Can see forum" - Thanks 5hocK for suggesting
New Features
- Events - More events have been added to the template and the php core
Notable Bug Fixes
- Printing topics with webkit - Properly display background images when printing with webkit browser
- Language files for xCP modules - Adding multiple language files for acp/mcp/ucp modules was incorrectly handled for extensions
- Several Controller Fixes - AJAX responses did not support exceptions messages, AJAX responses did not support meta_refresh and redirect