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phpBB is an Internet forum package written in PHP programming language. The name "phpBB" is an abbreviation of PHP Bulletin Board and is available in the GNU General Public License so it is distributed as freeware.
phpBB was made by James Atkinson as a UBB-like forum that is used on its website on June 17, 2000. Nathan Codding and John Abela (now an official team member) to join in the development after the project moved to SourceForge, and workmanship version 1.0.0 began. phpBB is fully functional to be tested was released on July 1, 2000.
phpBB 1.0.0 was released on December 9, 2000. The final release of version 1.x was phpBB 1.4.4, released on November 6, 2001.
phpBB 2.0.x began to be developed on February 17, 2001. phpBB version 2.0.0 was released on April 4, 2002. Although the first release only supports PHP 3, the current phpBB version 2.0 requires PHP 4.0.3 or greater. The latest release is version 2.0.x to version 2.0.22 was released on December 23, 2006. Release for 2.0.x version is currently only limited to bugs, interference and security fixes.

The last release for the 3.x version is 3.0 RC2 which was released on June 24, 2007. Currently, the latest releases phpBB 3.0 requires PHP 4.3.3 or greater, and is compatible with PHP 5.
With the 2.0.x code base has been in the stable phase, the development team led by Meik Sievertsen has started to develop and modify the base code to produce the "Olympus", which when it had reached an adequate quality of production will be released as version 3.0.0. Improvements in the "Olympus" is currently comparable to the improvement between 1.4.x and 2.0.x. Originally planned to be released as 2.2.0, but since 2.1.x removed virual towards compatibility with version 2.0.x, the version number changed to 3.0.0 adapted to Linux kernel version.
On March 19, 2006, the development team opened the tracking problem for CVS and the first beta version was released several months later. The development version to 3.0.0 are:

    3.0.0 Beta released on June 17, 2006.
    3.0.0 Beta 2 was released on August 12, 2006 to repair bugs in Beta 1.
    3.0.0 Beta 3 was released on November 12, 2006 with the support of UTF-8 and fixes bugs in Beta 2.
    3.0.0 Beta 4 was released on November 27, 2006 with 100 bugs fixes after the release of Beta 3.
    3.0.0 Beta 5 was released on January 28, 2007 is the last Beta release prior to Release Candidate.
    3.0.0 Release Candidate 1 released on May 20, 2007 is the first release candidate of phpBB.
    3.0.0 Release Candidate 2 was released on June 24, 2007 to repair some bugs and adding some new features.
After damage to the server in a long time, on March 18, 2007 phpBB team released their new website. The site recently introduced a new design based on the theme "prosilver" the work of one team member Tom Beddard, and the main community forums runs in version 3.x for the first time. This new theme is part of the plan and the phpBB CVS has been performed in area51 forum
Some features of phpBB are:

    A template system for easy modification.
    It supports internationalization, with 64 language translation is available in 2006.
   Compatible with a variety of database management systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, Microsoft     SQL Server, Microsoft Access, and with slight modifications for Oracle.
    A large community that provides support and customization for free.
MOD is a modification for phpBB code created by the phpBB community. Capital letters are used to distinguish the modifications to the forum moderators. PhpBB MOD Team received a modified version of the community for validation, and modifications that meet the standards of the MOD Team will be made available for download from the PHP MOD Database. Other sites also provide modifications, both validated according to their standards or not, so the team does not provide support to the phpBB forum using the MOD from other sites in addition to phpBB.com.
In December 2004, a large number of web pages in the defacement by the Santy worm, exploit security holes phpBB to re-write the PHP scripts and HTML.
Because of this, security at the phpBB doubt. However, the phpBB Group can quickly respond to reports of security and immediately release the new version. Many things have been changed to avoid problems that will come. One is the re-authentication in the administrator panel (introduced after verification of the cookies can cause the attacker gets administrator privileges), a visual confirmation (CHAPTCHA)to avoid automatic registration by bots, as well as the substitution code that cause security problems in version 2.0.10 to 2.0.15. To stay safe, administrators are expected to be renewed with the most recent version as soon as possible. CAPTCHA system still proved to be bypassed by a bot with the occurrence of cases of spam on some phpBB forums using bots.
On 20 November 2005, phpBB Group announces the formation of Incident Investigation Team, a sub section of the Support Team, which is responsible to assist the user in handling and repair as well as investigating reports of security holes that exist. The team announced a tracker in January next in which the administrator of the bulletin board that can be attacked to report the attack and had the support of this Incident Investigation Team.