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MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 1)

By DougSD | Published January 1st, 2010 | Updates | Rating: 1 Star2 Stars3 Stars4 Stars5 Stars Loading ... Loading ...

Do you smell what we smell? The crisp, fresh air of a new is arriving, and so is a new version of MyBB!

We’re excited to announce that MyBB 1.6 is coming early 2010! There are 49 brand new features included. We’ve been working on MyBB 1.6 since the release of 1.4 in August of 2008, and the long work has paid off! Below are just a few of the new, exciting features MyBB 1.6 offers.

Search Private Messages

You now can search through your private messages to find that message you’ve been looking for even faster.

The search is fully customizable, letting you choose what folders, authors, and message status to search by. Talk about easy to find messages!

Video MyCode Integration

Post videos from your favorite video sharing websites like YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe and Vimeo right from your editor toolbar.

Search for Themes & Plugins

Find themes & plugins right from your very own administrator control panel. Once you find something, you can download it from the MyBB Mods site.

Thread Prefixes

Add prefixes to your threads, complete with HTML code. You can also control what forums and user groups can use them.

PHP 5.1.0 minimum

As we have alluded in the past couple of years, MyBB 1.6 will be the first version of MyBB to run on PHP 5 installations only, and more specifically, servers set up with PHP 5.1.0 as a minimum. This is only an issue for about 10% of you who are still using a host running obsolete versions of PHP; it might be time to give your host a slight nudge forward if you are in this group.

Thanks for reading!

There are even more features that will make your MyBB experience even better. Stay tuned to find out more about MyBB 1.6!

Comments

  1. 1.

    KuJoe (January 1st, 2010, 4:26 pm)

    Woot! Good news for the new year!

  2. 2.

    GM (January 1st, 2010, 4:41 pm)

    Nice features man.. :D

  3. 3.

    Zash (January 1st, 2010, 5:20 pm)

    Very nice, I can’t wait :)

  4. 4.

    SoniQuake (January 1st, 2010, 7:15 pm)

    Woo! It looks too hot :)

    Keep it on :D

  5. 5.

    Rockyy (January 1st, 2010, 7:22 pm)

    awesome..!!!!!!!! waiting for it to release…….:D a New Year Gift to everyone from MYBB :D

  6. 6.

    Minh Trí (Minh Tri) (January 1st, 2010, 7:42 pm)

    Wooowoooo! MyBB 1.6 looks promising. I’m waiting for MyBB 1.6. I Love MyBB.
    @ DougSD: Where can I download myBB 1.6

  7. 7.

    Staff Response: Polarbear541 (January 1st, 2010, 7:55 pm)

    You can currently get 1.6 through the SVN however no support is provided for this and there may be a load of bugs :P

  8. 8.

    MyBB Blog » Blog Archive » MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 1) Hello CMS - the best cms website (January 1st, 2010, 8:32 pm)

    [...] more here: MyBB Blog » Blog Archive » MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 1) By admin | category: MyBB, Object | tags: development, find-updates, future-versions, [...]

  9. 9.

    bubka3 (January 1st, 2010, 8:37 pm)

    myBB doesnt have bugs, its too good :P

  10. 10.

    Team Onyx (January 1st, 2010, 8:50 pm)

    This looks so damn amazing, I cant wait to download this. This is gona be sick.

  11. 11.

    yuriy (January 1st, 2010, 8:59 pm)

    But when exactly???? I’m waiting for MyBB 1.6. I Love MyBB.

  12. 12.

    Photon (January 1st, 2010, 9:00 pm)

    This is great news. I’ll be eagerly waiting. I wonder If I can delete/uninstall plugins from within the admin panel?

  13. 13.

    yuriy (January 1st, 2010, 9:00 pm)

    I very very very love Mybb!!! The best forum!!!!

  14. 14.

    Staff Response: StefanT (January 1st, 2010, 9:17 pm)

    @bubka3: It is still development…
    @yuriy: It releases when it is finished. There has to be a beta test,…

  15. 15.

    Forumclub (January 1st, 2010, 9:25 pm)

    look forward thank you..

  16. 16.

    MyBB Blog » Blog Archive » MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 1) Scripts Rss (January 2nd, 2010, 12:54 am)

    [...] here:  MyBB Blog » Blog Archive » MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 1) By admin | category: MyBB, Object | tags: development, find-updates, future-versions, [...]

  17. 17.

    rsw686 (January 2nd, 2010, 5:41 am)

    Looks great! Glad to see you went with PHP 5.1 as a minimum vs PHP 5.2 like other projects have been doing. This allows those RH EL and CentOS uses to keep the official PHP 5.1.6 package.

  18. 18.

    Alwahsh (January 2nd, 2010, 6:13 am)

    Great . Good Luck , I am waiting for the language files to translate :D

  19. 19.

    bubka3 (January 2nd, 2010, 7:03 am)

    @StefanT: I just tested it on my localhost. Looks pretty stable to me. I just don’t get why its a major release as much hasn’t changed except 49 features.

  20. 20.

    Staff Response: Ryan Gordon (January 2nd, 2010, 7:16 am)

    @bubka3: 50 new features (among many other bug fixes and tweaks) seems like a major release to me.

  21. 21.

    bubka3 (January 2nd, 2010, 7:26 am)

    @Ryan Gordon: That could of been a content update myBB 1.4.12…. I mean if the User Profile was changed or the theme was Web 2.0 it would sure be major release. In the release of 1.2 -> 1.4 you changed the ACP. Here nothing has been except a high load of bug fixes and features.

  22. 22.

    Fábio Maia (January 2nd, 2010, 7:37 am)

    WOAH!! Finally, something about 1.6. Thanks! Now I will actually read this, as I skipped everything to the comments.

  23. 23.

    Alex (January 2nd, 2010, 8:52 am)

    @Polarbear541
    Where can we find it in SVN

  24. 24.

    Badis (January 2nd, 2010, 10:07 am)

    Thank you very much, but the WYSIWYG Editor has not added ?

  25. 25.

    Tabbie (January 2nd, 2010, 10:33 am)

    Sweet! Can’t wait for it to come out. I’m not sure, but is there a full list of the new features that are added?

  26. 26.

    killed (January 2nd, 2010, 11:32 am)

    That a great. I love you, mybb

  27. 27.

    Staff Response: Ryan Loos (January 2nd, 2010, 11:54 am)

    @bukka3: A theme/look change is not the only thing that determines a major version change. It is other things.
    Generally speaking, we do not add many features in minor releases unless it fixes a bug or is something we can add without causing issues.

    Additionally, 1.6 may require plugin and theme modifications for you to enjoy all of the new features we’ve added. If it were a minor update, people may not even know what they’re upgrading to and may miss out.

  28. 28.

    TC600 (January 2nd, 2010, 12:57 pm)

    Wow looks great!

  29. 29.

    Martin (January 2nd, 2010, 5:39 pm)

    I think there should be a smiley update too :)

    Will there be an easy update feature too :D

  30. 30.

    VZ20 (January 2nd, 2010, 7:34 pm)

    Wow, that are really great new features :D !

    Keep up that good work :) !

  31. 31.

    Dvdxseo (January 3rd, 2010, 12:50 am)

    :O Great Job and great features! :P

  32. 32.

    Tm0 (January 3rd, 2010, 6:13 am)

    TIS SEXY! I love it :D

  33. 33.

    Marc (January 3rd, 2010, 7:43 am)

    I have MyBB 1.4.11 right now. I have made light (but tedious to redo) modifications to some template files and such. If I upgrade to MyBB 1.6, what will be lost, if anything?

  34. 34.

    you (January 3rd, 2010, 7:54 am)

    Amazing like always :D

  35. 35.

    Starnova (January 3rd, 2010, 7:54 am)

    What a nice way to begin 2010! I am excited and anxious for the new version. Lot’s of new needed features! Thanks for the preview!

  36. 36.

    marcgo15 (January 3rd, 2010, 9:02 am)

    Looking good so far, can’t wait for beta testing to start :)

  37. 37.

    Staff Response: MattRogowski (January 3rd, 2010, 9:32 am)

    @Marc Templates aren’t stored in files, and if I remember correctly the upgrade script will not touch any edits you have made, however you would need to see if you need to make any changes to make them 1.6 compatible, i.e. make sure you’re not missing code that shows new features or is necessary for them to work etc.

  38. 38.

    Selkie (January 3rd, 2010, 10:06 am)

    I’m looking forward to it!
    It looks so good. But… I’m sure the real revolution will be MyBB 2.0 :D Keep it on!

  39. 39.

    pz (January 3rd, 2010, 10:33 am)

    I hope it will be compatible with 1.4.x themes & plugins and that you will continue to support 1.4.x for some time, I really hate upgrading…

  40. 40.

    marcgo15 (January 3rd, 2010, 12:24 pm)

    I forgot to ask in my other post. Will this break a lot of plugins? I know some will need updated and what not but I was just wondering if there was a good bit of code changes that will affect plugins.

  41. 41.

    mosmankoc (January 3rd, 2010, 1:11 pm)

    What a nice way to begin 2010! I am excited and anxious for the new version. Lot’s of new needed features! Thanks for the preview!

  42. 42.

    Dutchcoffee (January 3rd, 2010, 2:43 pm)

    Wow! I’m drooling just by looking at the screenshots! I can’t wait until the beta is released :)

  43. 43.

    Staff Response: Ryan Gordon (January 3rd, 2010, 3:02 pm)

    @Marin and Marc and marcgo15, all of your questions have already been answered on the community forums. Please use the search functionality.

  44. 44.

    Onyx (January 4th, 2010, 2:34 am)

    Is there any time, than any of the developers have that when a beta might possibly be released?

  45. 45.

    dyrer (January 4th, 2010, 7:01 am)

    Great work. I can’t wait to test it

  46. 46.

    KuraBrazil (January 4th, 2010, 5:11 pm)

    Very nice update!! I’ll still waiting for this verrsion.. When this version released? Specific date, please..

  47. 47.

    Kaitora (January 5th, 2010, 2:07 am)

    I really can’t wait. Is there going to be an open beta, or will we have to apply?

  48. 48.

    Pauloss (January 5th, 2010, 2:14 am)

    I hope the 1.6 will come very soonly. Nice updates by the way

  49. 49.

    Staff Response: StefanT (January 5th, 2010, 2:40 am)

    @KuraBrazil: There will be no specific date.

  50. 50.

    HappyPeoples (January 5th, 2010, 3:00 am)

    very well, thank you very much for the preview!

  51. 51.

    Staff Response: Ryan Gordon (January 5th, 2010, 5:06 pm)

    @Kaitora, since the development site and SVN are now public there’s no point in making a private beta really.

  52. 52.

    Spencer (January 6th, 2010, 10:20 am)

    Where can I get the SVN? I can’t seem to find it.

  53. 53.

    Staff Response: StefanT (January 6th, 2010, 7:49 pm)

    http://mybboard.net/get-involved

  54. 54.

    Kazna (January 6th, 2010, 9:01 pm)

    Yay I love the Video MyCode Integration and Thread Prefixes :D and Plugin browsing is cool too. Can’t wait for it!

  55. 55.

    BMR777 (January 7th, 2010, 9:47 am)

    Very Cool! I was going to redo my MyBB Multiforums Mod for 1.4 but now that 1.6 is coming out I’ll probably skip the redo and just code a new version straight for 1.6. I can’t wait to get my hands on a stable beta. :)

  56. 56.

    zeroty (January 7th, 2010, 5:53 pm)

    Will upgrading from latest version of 1.4 need a complete clean install?

  57. 57.

    Staff Response: StefanT (January 7th, 2010, 7:07 pm)

    Of course you can upgrade your complete board… It’s like a normal update.

  58. 58.

    alonso-planet.com (January 8th, 2010, 12:14 pm)

    Great updates!

    Maybe in the future it would be a good idea to force plugin writers to code for a specific standard that allows myBB to install/uninstall plugins directly from the AdminCP like wordpress.

  59. 59.

    Onyx (January 8th, 2010, 10:08 pm)

    This has already been done with a plugin. I made something called pluginBB, which allow for people to do this.However it is only downloadable on my site.

    Also, cant wait for the release of this :D

    gona be so amazing…from what i see, very awesome.

  60. 60.

    xpserkan (January 8th, 2010, 10:54 pm)

    Thank you very much

  61. 61.

    Aglioeolio (January 9th, 2010, 12:47 am)

    Looks awesome, great features

    I can´t wait to see the stable release in action :D

  62. 62.

    LoveItMyBB (January 9th, 2010, 5:24 pm)

    Great :D
    Great Job!!!

  63. 63.

    frhtckr (January 9th, 2010, 7:45 pm)

    good mybb dev and mybb 1.6.0

  64. 64.

    acrox999 (January 10th, 2010, 1:17 am)

    O MA GAWD! THAT IS AWESOME!

  65. 65.

    aditmb (January 10th, 2010, 2:50 am)

    Can’t wait for it!
    Great job!

  66. 66.

    SK (January 10th, 2010, 4:36 am)

    FFF. Cool,
    But that will be much work for me when I must update my design…

  67. 67.

    xXTHeEddYXx (January 10th, 2010, 10:19 am)

    Will this mess with a lot of our plugins?

  68. 68.

    Staff Response: MattRogowski (January 10th, 2010, 11:11 pm)

    @xXTHeEddYXx http://community.mybboard.net/thread-62330.html

  69. 69.

    Alwahsh (January 11th, 2010, 4:09 am)

    I don’t know why you insist not to add WYSIWYG editor !! it’s the only thing that Mybbb Misses .

  70. 70.

    Badis (January 11th, 2010, 6:21 am)

    @Alwahsh; That’s right , very good idea.

  71. 71.

    Stingeay (January 12th, 2010, 4:11 am)

    Finally! (laptop with lack of ‘i’ key, excuse non-capital i’s) i can run MyBB on my WAMP Server!

  72. 72.

    Flick (January 13th, 2010, 1:46 am)

    Oh wow… I love the screenshots already! :) Especially the VideoMyCode now being part of the core – I know my users will really like that function. Can’t think why searching Private Messages was never included before now that one considers it :p

    Thanks for all your hardwork!

  73. 73.

    Eliran (January 13th, 2010, 4:31 am)

    AMAZING! I’m SO waiting for it :)

  74. 74.

    Geoff (January 14th, 2010, 6:39 am)

    Can’t Wait… Seems to be a few flaws with 1.4.11, so I will wait for this to come out

  75. 75.

    Staff Response: MattRogowski (January 14th, 2010, 10:39 pm)

    Maybe you could report these flaws if they haven’t already been reported so we can do something about them…??

  76. 76.

    Alex (January 15th, 2010, 3:59 pm)

    Is the beta in the SVN or what? i can’t seem to find it at all (if it is in there where exactly)

  77. 77.

    Staff Response: StefanT (January 15th, 2010, 10:59 pm)

    The current development version is in “trunk” and can be downloaded with SVN.

  78. 78.

    Onyx (January 16th, 2010, 11:38 am)

    When i try to download the SVN, it asks for a username and password…i enter mine from here, however it does not work….why is this?

  79. 79.

    sentabi (January 16th, 2010, 1:35 pm)

    +1 for Search for Themes & Plugins

    can’t wait for this

  80. 80.

    Staff Response: Ryan Gordon (January 16th, 2010, 3:42 pm)

    Onyx, you shouldn’t need to enter a username or a password.

  81. 81.

    Staff Response: StefanT (January 16th, 2010, 7:48 pm)

    @Onyx: Which URL do you use?

  82. 82.

    Onyx (January 17th, 2010, 11:50 am)

    svn.mybboard.net/mybb

    I figured it out tho….

  83. 83.

    Cem KÜÇÜK (January 20th, 2010, 6:45 pm)

    looks great as usual.
    When 1.6 is out?
    yes yes yes

  84. 84.

    Brushfire (January 21st, 2010, 7:18 am)

    Looks great, and I’m really excited for it but it looks way too much like 1.4x.

  85. 85.

    RPicard (January 21st, 2010, 4:25 pm)

    Looking forward to Part 2 and of course, the release!

    Keep it up.

  86. 86.

    Staff Response: MattRogowski (January 21st, 2010, 6:30 pm)

    @Brushfire This release is more just adding to the code rather than changing stuff around, which means a lot of plugins and themes that work with 1.4 will work with 1.6 with some very minor changes.

  87. 87.

    Samuel (January 23rd, 2010, 4:08 pm)

    thanks for the details, i have got the beta of the svn server without downloading it through svn i downloaded the files 1 by 1 so it took ages to get it but it was worth it

  88. 88.

    MrToan (January 23rd, 2010, 4:25 pm)

    Wao….! great!

    thanks!

  89. 89.

    GameOverClock (January 23rd, 2010, 11:45 pm)

    Hi Matt and Ryan,
    i installed 1.4.11 and you know that there is 404 error in mod_security and you said you solved this problem in 1.6
    if we upgrade to 1.6, will this problem go away and can we contact our host company to re-enable the mod_security again to make our sites safer. will there be any problems about it?
    and i use Justins 1.4.11 themes on my sites and is upgrading to 1.6 will effect the themes..
    By the way, when this is gonna be out. i am really tired of calling my host about the mod_security everyday…

  90. 90.

    Staff Response: MattRogowski (January 24th, 2010, 3:06 am)

    Yes, if it’s been fixed, clearly it’ll go away in 1.6. Yes, they can just re-enable it. I don’t know why you need to call them about it every day though. And yes, as has been said a few hundred times, themes will need to be updated to work with 1.6, and as has been said a few thousand times, there is no set date for the 1.6 release.

  91. 91.

    GameOverClock (January 24th, 2010, 5:15 am)

    i call them everyday because i have multiple sites and growing every other day. i install mybb to everyone of them and if this bothers you, i wont do that..

  92. 92.

    MyBB Blog » Blog Archive » MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 2) (January 25th, 2010, 2:40 pm)

    [...] the first part of the MyBB 1.6 sneak previews, we shared just four of the 49 brand new features included in MyBB [...]

  93. 93.

    Bestpublisher (January 27th, 2010, 8:43 am)

    wow looks awesome ;)

  94. 94.

    MyBB 1.6 Sneak Preview (Part 2) | Turkaland (January 27th, 2010, 9:48 pm)

    [...] the first part of the MyBB 1.6 sneak previews, we shared just four of the 49 brand new features included in MyBB [...]

  95. 95.

    Tiago (February 7th, 2010, 4:54 am)

    This looks awesome but I have a question.

    Does this version fixes the bug that puts moderators from a different group on the moderators group?

    Check this:

    http://www.pokeforum-pt.com/showteam.php

    The RPG Crew in this forum has its own group, however it’s still on the moderators group (because they moderate a certain section).

    Sry for my english, I’m portuguese.

  96. 96.

    Jdmg (February 8th, 2010, 7:27 am)

    Wow, it’s amazing.

  97. 97.

    Anish K.S (February 10th, 2010, 6:51 pm)

    Video MyCode Integration, its a great feature.

  98. 98.

    Iklan Baris Gratis (February 14th, 2010, 12:20 pm)

    wow,,,i’m surprised with the new mybb 1.6 ,, i hope its more faster performance than 1.4 version :D

  99. 99.

    Staff Response: Huji Lee (February 14th, 2010, 8:03 pm)

    @Tiago:

    Please post the bug with clear steps to reproduce it, on http://dev.mybboard.net/projects/mybb/issues and we will take care of it before 1.6 is released.

  100. 100.

    sewa mobil (February 15th, 2010, 5:55 pm)

    nice article friend
    thank you for the comment

  101. 101.

    Mr. Crazy (February 18th, 2010, 9:08 am)

    FINALLY! :D I can’t wait for this! :) I been dying to see thread prefixes for mybb! what took you so long? :o

  102. 102.

    Skinnerul (February 22nd, 2010, 9:21 pm)

    Video MyCode Integration, its a great feature.

  103. 103.

    K|nG (March 5th, 2010, 6:07 am)

    Nice very nice :D hope will be soon this Version :D

  104. 104.

    Claude Gelinas (March 19th, 2010, 12:24 am)

    You guys do such an amazing job — it’s fantastic!

  105. 105.

    Gargasch (March 26th, 2010, 12:01 am)

    I have a Question

    http://blog.mybboard.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/delayed-moderation.png

    Is this only work for ” days ” after the latest Post or only ” Make Thread ” after ~20 day delete?

    It would be better, to make an ” [Close/Delete/Move etc.] [How Much Days/Week/Month] after Latest Post “

  106. 106.

    Staff Response: StefanT (March 26th, 2010, 10:58 pm)

    It will perform the action the specified amount of days after you added the moderation action.

  107. 107.

    ghazal (April 20th, 2010, 3:46 am)

    Excellent release. well done

  108. 108.

    harikaa (May 6th, 2010, 5:51 am)

    it is very very good. Thanks a lot;)

  109. 109.

    remshad (May 10th, 2010, 3:03 am)

    Excellent i am still waiting…………….

  110. 110.

    Mach1 (May 14th, 2010, 9:31 am)

    Ok so this blog is looking old since this was started January 1st 2010 any new updates regarding this release since its nearly June?

    “We’re excited to announce that MyBB 1.6 is coming early 2010!”

    Its now MID 2010!

  111. 111.

    MyBB Blog » Blog Archive » MyBB 1.6 Beta Released (May 16th, 2010, 11:08 am)

    [...] new features some of which we have featured in two of our previous blog postings (sneak previews: part 1, part 2).  In addition, there are a number of improvements and bug [...]

  112. 112.

    DAMINK (June 26th, 2010, 1:39 pm)

    Unfortunately for me it appears i will not get to enjoy the new features. (banned) but i must say there appears to be some great updates.
    As posted above. The video option is really quite a neat little core component.
    Well from what i can tell there is loads of tweeks etc.

  113. 113.

    programy (July 19th, 2010, 2:11 am)

    it’s good news. i hope will be soon this version.

  114. 114.

    harika (July 19th, 2010, 5:08 pm)

    it is very good:):)

  115. 115.

    Amine (July 28th, 2010, 1:04 am)

    yes its good board i love him

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