phpBB3 – It’s Finally Here!

Acyd Burn, the development team leader for the open-source bulletin board software phpBB has proudly announce that “today we begin a new chapter in the history of phpBB. After five years, over 200,000 lines of new and altered code, and many a long night phpBB Group is very proud to announce the release of phpBB3 ‘Olympus’.”

I’ve been waiting for this announcement for quite some time, and any know what I mean if you’ve ever looked at the development timeline for phpBB3! Sadly, I gave up on phpBB a long time ago after reading their “phpBB is dead… long live phpBB” announcement.

phpBB used to be the de facto standard for web-based BBS, but the security issues plaguing their 2.0.x line and the continual delays of 2.1, which was later renamed to 3.0, and then dragged on with a long string of betas and RCs before today’s “golden” release really caused them to lag behind the times. The phpBB team has some serious competition now, and hopefully this has made them a lot more serious about their application.

Although I no longer have the old phpBB2 board that used to be the forte of this site (not to mention one of first experiences with PHP hacking), I still have hope for the project and I’m cheering them on from the sidelines.

Good luck and congratulations, phpBB Team!