phpBB 3.1 Feature Freeze

After a long development, future phpBB 3.1 that will be called Ascraeus is now on Feature Freeze phase, which will freeze the development of new feature and focusing on stability of the release before the final version will be released.

Below are the status of features and improvements in phpBB 3.1:

Merged:

• Coding Guideline Modifications RFC Ticket
• Autoloading & Class Naming Convention RFC Ticket
• Removal of subsilver2 RFC Ticket

Patch in progress:

• Improved Page Titles RFC Ticket
• Avatar improvements, Gravatar RFC Ticket
• Improved template engine RFC Ticket
• SQLite 3.0+ Support RFC Ticket
• Updated BBcode engine RFC
• Request Class RFC Ticket
• Switch to PHP timezone handling RFC Ticket
• Modular Cron RFC Ticket
• General Hook Architecture RFC Ticket
• Resume support for attachments / HTTP range support RFC Ticket
• Soft Delete RFC Ticket
• Enhanced Team Page RFC Ticket
• Improve User Pruning feature RFC Ticket
• Rename MSNM to WLM RFC Ticket
• Link global announcements to forumsRFC Ticket
• Simple message API RFC Ticket
• Attachments Management RFC Ticket
• MOD Installer RFC Ticket
• Cleaning up the ACP UI RFC Ticket
• No db storage of themes and stylesheets RFC Ticket

RFC only:

• Migrations (UMIL) RFC Ticket Data Providers RFC
• Changing IP banning to use ‘longest prefix matching’ RFC Ticket
• Ability to delete auto login keys RFC Ticket
• Authentication Plugin Refactoring, User Integration & OpenID RFC Ticket
• Session Backend Abstraction (memcache support) RFC Ticket
• Search Backend Refactoring RFC Ticket
• Pre-Compile Template Includes RFC
• Overridable imageset and theme paths for CDNs RFC