phpBB 2.0.18 released

[PvUtrix]

The phpBB Group is pleased to announce the release of phpBB 2.0.18, "The Halloween Special" release.

This is a major update to the 2.0.x codebase and includes fixes for numerous bugs reported by users to our Bug Tracker, as well as updates to those issues identified by the recent security audit of the code and a couple of security issues reported to us. In addition we have backported a further feature from our "Olympus" codebase to change the way automatic logins are handled.

http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=336756

[revelationdesign]

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phpBB 2.0.18 repackaged
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Hi,

we just noticed that some changes were not checked in to CVS and thus
been missing within the released 2.0.18 packages.
We repackaged phpBB 2.0.18 and also updated the changed files package.

Please have a look at the original announcement at
http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=336756 for all changes.
The files in question are common.php (just one tiny change) and
includes/usercp_register.php (several changes).

For all of you having uploaded the packages or the code changes to
their sites, please grab the packages again and inform your users about the
changes.

Sorry for the inconvenience. We will evaluate what went wrong
internally and why this happened.

the phpBB Group.

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Great, JUST after I updated!

[chief]

Probably a dumb question, but is there a way to update this at the CLI? Like yum or something. Does anyone know if there's a script out there that checks for a new update and then installs it if there is, they update phpBB about every 2 minutes.

[elix]

Probably a dumb question, but is there a way to update this at the CLI? Like yum or something. Does anyone know if there's a script out there that checks for a new update and then installs it if there is, they update phpBB about every 2 minutes.
there are some available but they probably won't work well for modded phpbb versions.

also, i'm not sure how the script would check to see if there is an update..usually there's a script for each upgrade that's seperate.

[Zaf]

Probably a dumb question, but is there a way to update this at the CLI? Like yum or something. Does anyone know if there's a script out there that checks for a new update and then installs it if there is, they update phpBB about every 2 minutes.Shouldnt be very difficult to achieve. Guess there are still those services available that track html pages on the web for changes and mail you when they change. Atleast you'd know there is a new version :)

[mikelbeck]

If you're running a basic phpBB site using the default templates (subSilver) you can use EasyMOD to install this. Very simple, takes all of about 30 seconds.

If you're using modified templates or a different theme, you'll have to make the changes to your templates manually.

I updated 3 sites the other day, one was heavily modified and had to have all changes done by hand, that took about an hour. The second used a different theme, I was able to use EasyMOD to install the changes to the php files and manually updated the templates, that took about 15 minutes. The last was a bone-stock phpBB install, EasyMOD took care of it right away.

[elix]

Shouldnt be very difficult to achieve. Guess there are still those services available that track html pages on the web for changes and mail you when they change. Atleast you'd know there is a new version :)
there's also mailing lists ;)