phpBB 3.1.3
1 February 2015
phpBB version 3.1.3 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to phpBB 3.1.3
phpBB 3.1.3 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply phpBB updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing phpBB install to test the 3.1.3 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your phpBB installations with Installatron
What's New in phpBB 3.1.3
This version is a maintenance and security release of the 3.1.x branch which fixes one security issue, a number of bugs, and adds new events as entry points for extensions to modify phpBB's behaviour.
In 3.1.x we no longer consider it acceptable for administrators to have system access through the administration control panel. It was previously possible for an administrator on a forum to use the ImageMagick binary path setting to execute code on the server.
Security and Hardening
- Hardening of imagick path - Existence of the path to the imagick program specified in the Administration Control Panel is now verified.
New Features
- Events - More events have been added to the template and the php core
- Support for IDN (IRI) Urls - Urls in BBCodes, posts and profile fields can now contain UTF8 characters
- Migrations can now use DI - Migrations can now use the container to access additional objects
Notable Bug Fixes
- Canonical URLs sort parameters removed - In order to produce less duplicate pages, the sort parameters have been removed from the canonical URLs
- Multiple bugs while updating - Quite some bugs in the database update scripts have been fixed
- Boolean profile fields on PostgreSQL - Boolean profile fields can now be created again
- UTF8 characters in attachment names - Attachments with UTF8 characters in their file name can now be uploaded again
