Editing PhpBB (section)

===phpBB 3.0.x===
[[File:Phpbb 3.0 prosilver.png|thumb|A default installation of phpBB 3.0]]
Work on phpBB 3.0.x began in late 2002. It was originally intended to be released as phpBB 2.2, and the first planned feature list was announced on May 25, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=104463 |title=phpBB • View topic – 2.2 Feature List [ updated 25&nbsp;May &#93; |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=May 25, 2003 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> However, as development progressed, the developers realised that phpBB 2.1.x (the development release cycle for 2.2) had eliminated virtually all compatibility with the 2.0.x line, so the version number for release was changed to 3.0.0, in keeping with the [[Linux kernel]] [[Software versioning|versioning scheme]], which phpBB followed at the time.<ref>{{cite web|author=psoTFX |date=January 14, 2005 |url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=256072 |title=phpBB • View topic – phpBB 2.2 is no more ... meet Olympus |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> In September 2005, Paul Owen resigned as the Development Team Leader and Meik Sievertsen was promoted to the role.

In March 2007, the phpBB team launched their new website, powered by phpBB3 with the new prosilver style.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=526970 |title=New website launch announcement |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=March 18, 2007 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> The prosilver style was originally not intended to be revealed until the final release of phpBB 3.0.0.{{Citation needed|date=August 2010}}

On April 30, 2007, phpBB founder and co-Project Manager James Atkinson officially resigned from his duties towards phpBB, citing personal circumstances. With the announcement also came the announcement that phpBB was now newly independent and that the team leaders would be collectively taking charge of the decisions in the future of the project. At the end of May, an announcement was made that Jonathan "SHS`" Stanley, the other co-Project Manager, was stepping down as well for personal reasons.

The first beta of phpBB3 was released in June 2006,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=400283 |title=phpBB 3.0 Beta1 Release Announcement |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> and the first release candidate was released in May 2007.<ref>{{cite web|last=Burn |first=Acyd |url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=543015 |title=phpBB3 RC1 Release Announcement |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=May 20, 2007 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> The phpBB3 codebase received an external [[security audit]] in September, which was done by [[SektionEins]].<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=584826 |title=phpBB3 Release Candidate 6 (release made after the security audit) |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> Finally, phpBB 3.0.0 "Olympus" (also dubbed the Gold release) was published on December 13, 2007.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phpbb.com/about/press/ |title=Press Release: phpBB Launches Next Wave of Social Networking and Forum Features |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=December 13, 2007 |access-date=2009-03-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213134510/http://www.phpbb.com/about/press/ |archive-date=February 13, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=615945 |title=phpBB3 Gold Released |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=December 13, 2007 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref>

On July 7, 2007, the teams announced that phpBB had been nominated as a finalist for the [[SourceForge.net]] Community Choice Awards in the category of "Best Project for Communications".<ref>{{cite web|last=Burn |first=Acyd |url=http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=563023 |title=phpBB has made the Sourceforge CCA Finalist list! |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=July 7, 2007 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> At the end of the month, SourceForge.net announced that phpBB had won the award for "Best Project for Communications", and in honour of the award, SourceForge.net donated $1000 in phpBB's name to [[Marie Curie Cancer Care]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/community/index.php/landing-pages/cca07/ |title=Community Choice Awards 2007 Winners |publisher=Sourceforge.net |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sourceforge.net/community/cca-winners/ |title=CCA Winners Blog Post on |publisher=Sourceforge.net |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> phpBB also won a "Thingamagoop" from [[Bleep Labs]], and "bragging rights for a full year."<ref>{{cite web|last=Burn |first=Acyd |url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=572273 |title=phpBB's post on winning the Community Choice Award |publisher=Phpbb.com |date=August 3, 2007 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref>

In September 2007, the teams launched an official phpBB [[podcast]]. It was recorded by a rotating group of phpBB team members with occasional guests, and discussed a number of phpBB-related topics, as well as answering questions e-mailed in from listeners.<ref>{{cite web|author=Techie-Micheal |date=September 14, 2007|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=579959 |title=Official phpBB Podcast Announcement |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> However, the podcast only lasted for a few episodes and production ceased the following spring. Its successor is generally considered to be the new phpBB [[weblog]], which launched in July 2008. The blog is written by phpBB team members (with occasional guest posts by community members) on various topics related to phpBB and provide users with a unique inside look at the activities of the phpBB teams.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1063915 |title=phpBB Blog Announcement |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref>

The phpBB teams held their first-ever phpBB users' conference in London on July 20, 2008, which was titled "Londonvasion 2008."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1058455 |title=Londonvasion 2008 Announcement |publisher=Phpbb.com |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> Londonvasion featured presentations by phpBB team members on various topics important to the phpBB community, MOD authors, and developers. Londonvasion provided a unique opportunity to socialize with members of the phpBB teams. The event also represented the first time that most members of the teams had a chance to meet each other in person.

The phpBB teams underwent numerous changes in 2009. On January 1, the teams formally ended support for phpBB2.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1385785 |title=Support for phpBB 2.0.x has ended |publisher=phpBB.com |date=January 1, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref> Many of the non-development teams released betas and release candidates of side projects during this time. The first beta of AutoMOD, an automatic installer of phpBB MODifications, was released by the Extensions Team (formerly known as the MOD Team) on December 22, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1370895 |title=AutoMOD 1.0.0 Beta 1 released |publisher=phpBB.com |date=December 22, 2008 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref> The first release candidate of the Unified MOD Install Library (UMIL), a framework for allowing MOD authors to design simple database installation scripts, was released by the Extensions Team on January 12, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1405425 |title=Unified MOD Install Library (UMIL) 1.0.0 RC1 Released |publisher=phpBB.com |date=January 12, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref> The first release candidate of the Support Toolkit, a package of tools to diagnose and fix common support-related issues with phpBB, was released by the Support Team on June 24.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1665575 |title=Support Toolkit RC1 |publisher=phpBB.com |date=June 24, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref>

On June 10, 2009, the phpBB Development Team broke with their precedent of keeping future development plans under wraps and publicly previewed a series of new features that would be coming in phpBB 3.0.6.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/06/10/phpbb-306-plans/ |title=phpBB 3.0.6 plans |publisher=phpBB.com |date=June 10, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref> After four RC releases, phpBB 3.0.6 was released on November 17.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1859035 |title=phpBB 3.0.6 released |publisher=phpBB.com |date=November 17, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref> The most notable new features included a bare-bones quick reply editor (a feature which the teams had historically been firmly opposed to), support for ACM ([[web cache|cache]]) plugins, [[ATOM feed]] support, and a plugin-based [[CAPTCHA]] system, including built-in support for [[reCAPTCHA]] among others. The modularization of phpBB's CAPTCHA also provided an [[API]] for MOD authors to write CAPTCHA plugins, allowing for greater diversification of the CAPTCHAs used in phpBB installations. The Extensions Team also ran a competition to encourage CAPTCHA plugin development.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1705955 |title=Best Captcha Plugin Competition |publisher=phpBB.com |date=July 22, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref>

On June 10, 2009, phpBB's Development Team revealed that the next phpBB3 release, 3.0.6, would include a significant number of new features.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://blog.phpbb.com/2009/06/10/phpbb-306-plans/|title=phpBB • Blog • phpBB 3.0.6 plans|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref> This is unusual for a minor release which is typically limited to bug and security fixes. New features would include support for new [[CAPTCHA]] plugins, [[Atom (web standard)|ATOM]] feeds, support for new [[web cache|cache]] plugins (XCache, [[Alternative PHP Cache]], [[eAccelerator]], [[Memcache]], and a "null" no-cache plugin), and quick reply (an often-requested feature by a subset of phpBB users) among other minor feature additions. phpBB 3.0.6 has had four RC releases, and its final release was on November 17, 2009.

The final stable release of phpBB 3.0 was 3.0.14, released May 4, 2015.<ref>{{cite web|author=phpBB |url=https://www.phpbb.com/downloads/3.0/ |title=Download phpBB 3.0 |publisher=phpBB.com |access-date=2017-01-03}}</ref> End of Life for phpBB 3.0.x was November 2015.<ref>{{cite web|author=phpBB |url=https://www.phpbb.com/about/release/ |title=Release and Update Policy |publisher=phpBB.com |access-date=2017-01-03}}</ref>