phpBB 3.3.1
7 August 2020
phpBB version 3.3.1 is now available (security release).
Upgrading to phpBB 3.3.1
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What's New in phpBB 3.3.1
This version is a maintenance and security release of the 3.3.x branch which fixes one security issue.
Security
- Previous versions of phpBB did allow limiting the dimensions of images posted. This could however also be used to e.g. check for the existence of services that should only be accessible from the internal network.
Improvements
- Enable/disable mechanism for new profilefield types - Added new enable & disable mechanism for profile field types
- Only one email notification per topic - Reduced emails sent as notifications when not having visited topic
Bug Fixes
- Slow search on PostgreSQL - Full text search on PostgreSQL was very slow due to accidentally disabled index
- Emoji isues - Issues with using emojis in multiple text fields
- Delete marked PMs in UCP - Improper form token check resulted in users being unable to delete marked PMs
- File lock issues - Failure while acquiring locks on some storage backends resulted in errors while installing phpBB
- Reset password error - Resetting a password resulted in an PHP fatal error being thrown
Event Changes
- Modify the SQL query that fetches the smilies
- This event allows you to modify post data displayed in the MCP
- Modify message rows before displaying the history in private messages
- Allow filtering the $notify_users array by $notification_type_name for a notification that is about to be sent.
- Here, $notify_users is already filtered from users who've already been notified.
- Modify error messages generated by the s9e\TextFormatter's logger
- Event to modify the SQL query before listing of friends
- Event to modify the template before listing of friends
- Event to perform additional actions before ucp_notifications is displayed
- Event to perform additional actions before ucp_notifications is submitted
- Alter the row of the post being quoted when composing a private message
- Modify private message
- Modify private message data before it is prepared to be displayed
- Event to modify the SQL query before obtaining topics/stickies