Editing PhpBB (section)

===phpBB 3.1.x===
[[File:PhpBB 3.2 Index page (mobile).png|thumb|The responsive design since phpBB 3.1]]
In 2009 the phpBB Development Team had begun working on phpBB 3.1, formerly versioned as phpBB 3.2. (Before July 29, 2009, phpBB followed the original [[Linux version history|Linux kernel versioning scheme]], in which the middle number represents a development version if it is odd and a stable version if it is even).<ref>{{cite web|author=phpBB|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1715935|title=Significant phpBB (development) changes|publisher=phpBB Group|date=July 29, 2009|access-date=2009-07-30}}</ref> The developers previewed their planned feature list at Londonvasion, and new features include a complete overhaul of the Moderator Control Panel (MCP) and moderation capabilities, implementation of [[AJAX]] where it is applicable and helpful, a trigger-based event system, a completely rewritten [[BBCode]] system, [[RSS]] feed support, enhancements to custom profile fields, enhancements to [[private messaging]], a new [[authentication]] system with [[OpenID]] support, and numerous other small changes and features.<ref>{{cite web|author=phpBB |url=http://vimeo.com/1536143 |title=[05&#93; phpBB 3.1 Features on Vimeo |publisher=Vimeo.com |date=August 15, 2008 |access-date=2009-03-09}}</ref> The phpBB teams maintain a website for phpBB development named ''Area51''. In keeping with the tradition to codename every new phpBB3 release after Martian mountains, phpBB 3.1 was code-named "Ascraeus", named after [[Ascraeus Mons]], the second-tallest mountain on [[Mars]]. ([[Olympus Mons]], which 3.0 was named after, is the tallest.)

On July 29, 2009, the Development Team announced "significant changes" to the phpBB's development process and release cycle.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1715935 |title=Significant phpBB (development) changes |publisher=phpBB.com |date=July 29, 2009 |access-date=2009-11-29}}</ref> Chief among these was the decision to abandon the former [[Linux kernel]] [[Software versioning|versioning scheme]], meaning that whether part of the version number was even or odd no longer was significant. As such, Ascraeus (the successor to 3.0.0 Olympus) is to become phpBB 3.1.0. (The original versioning scheme dictated that 3.1.x would be a development branch, meaning that Ascraeus would have been released as 3.2.0.) Subsequent feature releases of phpBB3 will be versioned as 3.2.0, 3.3.0, etc. phpBB 4.0.0 will represent a fundamentally redesigned version of phpBB. The strategy also committed the teams to continue supporting an older "stable" branch for at least 6–9 months after a newer "feature" branch was released. However, an exception was made for 3.0.6, which was already in development. Although it contained enough significant new features that it could have been considered a 3.1.0 release, it remained a part of the 3.0.x branch, which also meant that the teams did not have to simultaneously continue supporting 3.0.5 after 3.0.6's release.

In January 2010, Meik Sievertsen stepped down as Lead Developer, instead taking on the roles of developer and "Server Manager". Nils Adermann was then promoted to Lead Developer.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=1941725 |title=A Change in Development Leadership |publisher=phpBB.com |date=January 15, 2010 |access-date=2010-02-02}}</ref> Since then phpBB have been working on moving over to the [[Symfony]] [[web framework]] and released phpBB 3.1.0 on October 28, 2014<ref name="phpbb.com">{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2268866|title=phpBB • phpBB 3.1 Ascraeus Feature Release Published|access-date=June 4, 2016}}</ref>
In March 2010, phpBB moved source code versioning from Subversion to [[Git (software)|Git]]<ref>{{cite web|author=phpBB|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2015905|title=phpBB moves source code versioning from Subversion to Git|publisher=phpBB Group|date=March 7, 2010|access-date=2010-03-07}}</ref> in order to improve developer workflow and better involve the community.

On April 26, 2013, phpBB 3.1 entered the stage of [[feature freeze]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://area51.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=44195 | title=3.1 feature freeze|date=April 26, 2013 |access-date=2013-05-24}}</ref>  "Ascraeus" was finalized and released on October 28, 2014<ref name="phpbb.com"/> after several release candidates.
A future release "Rhea" (3.2.x) will be made January 7, 2017.<ref name="phpBB 3.2 Rhea is upon us">{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2398141 |title=phpBB 3.2 Rhea is upon us |publisher=phpBB.com |access-date=Jan 3, 2017}}</ref>

On October 12, 2016, phpBB released the latest stable "Ascraeus" version: 3.1.10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=2389426 |title=phpBB 3.1.10 Release – Please Update|publisher=phpBB.com |access-date=Jan 3, 2017}}</ref> Due to the late release of 3.2, it was announced that end of maintenance for 3.1 would be extended to June 2017, and end of life for 3.1 extended to December 2017.<ref name="phpBB 3.2 Rhea is upon us"/>

In addition to the development of phpBB 3.1, other phpBB teams also are in the process of developing numerous other tools for use by the community. Development for these tools was followed on the ''phpBB Code Forge'', which contained the [[Subversion (software)|Subversion]] repositories for these tools and the main phpBB development trunk.