Guess what? The 3rd and last Beta version of MyBB 1.8 is out! After this version (unless something very bad or unexpected happens), we’re rolling out 1.8.0 Stable/Gold for all of you. We need your help testing Beta 3 though so we can release 1.8.0 as stable as possible.

NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE.

You can see the currently open issues for Gold here.

Color legend:

• Dark Blue – Small (new) feature/change
• Light Blue – Enhancement
• Orange – New Feature

We’re not mentioning bug fixes below (the same bug fixes applied to the 1.6 branch are also applied to 1.8 as of now and the bugs for 1.8 only are not mentioned as that would only be important if 1.8 was already stable.), only small feature changes, enhancements and entirely new features.

Some of the enhancements mentioned below are related to the previous Beta versions (1st and 2nd) of 1.8 and they should appear as one only in the final list of enhancements for MyBB 1.8.

AdminCP and Front-end

• Remove PHP Closing tags – #979
• Performance improvement: intval to (int) conversion – #491
• Update 3rd part libraries – #957
• Warnings class/datahandler – #922
• Hide signtature of users to certain groups – #949
• Hide website links/buttons from certain groups – #922
• Add more hooks v2 – #882
• Allow custom flash messages – #881
• Allow website field for certain groups only – #808

AdminCP

• Option to disable contact details – #900
• Log all ‘locked out’ failures in ACP – #859
• Add reported posts stats to ACP – #858
• Delayed moderation improvements – #440
• New Promotion rules – #429

Front-end

• Overqualified selectors v2 – #976
• inline_moderation.js friendly to table-less themes – #915
• Memberlist sorting – #914
• Force Login – #906
• Add class to smilies – #905
• AJAX for security questions – #894
• Add get_user_by_username() helper function – #893
• find_replace_templates() accepts SID – #889
• $this->options in class_parser.php – #880
• Add class to announcements – #879
• Make forum friendly to outside pages – #878
• Change showthread.php icons to sprite – #877
• Add rebuild settings to cache tools – #875
• Add email description editing to editor – #869
• Add video sites to editor – #862
• Check new members against StopForumSpam – #860
• Jump to Page in pagination – #857
• send_pm() should consider users’ language – #834
• Forum statistics improvements – #824
• Image re-scaling and long words/text wrapping CSS/HTML changes – #816
• Moderate Groups – #439
• Portal Improvements – #436
• Moderation Notifications – #430
• Thread Prefix system improvements – #427
• Ability to Stop tracking all messages – #364
• Settings description on installation – #197

Download

ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE! DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR LIVE WEBSITE TO THIS VERSION.

The download can be found here.

Upgrade

You are NOT supposed to upgrade any 1.6 boards to 1.8 Beta 3 hence why we do not provide upgrading instructions. This is because you will not be able to upgrade from any of the Betas to 1.8. While we’ve done some work on the upgrader to guarantee that users no longer experience errors, this hasn’t been tested thoroughly. This is our number one priority in the next development phase.

Bug Reports

Found a bug? (or perhaps a few more…) Please post your detailed bug report in the 1.8 Bug Reports forum.

Please always double-check if the issue hasn’t been reported already.

Themes and Plugins Assistance

If you have any development questions about possible issues you may have while upgrading your themes or your plugins – or issues you may actually be having – please post in this forum.

Contributors

We’d like to thank the following contributors, they have been exceptional during the 1.8 development:

• martec
• ATofighi
• Cu8eR
• Nik101010
• xykul

They have created many Pull Requests, they helped us out solving bugs and finishing features and took part in many discussions on GitHub. MyBB is no longer a product developed by the team only, but by the community as well.

If you want to help us out and become a Contributor, be sure to read this blog post. If you’d rather join the team, feel free to contact us through Private Inquires.

Best Regards,
The MyBB Group

It’s been precisely one month since we released the first Beta version of MyBB 1.8 – I’m sure quite a few of you didn’t think we’d release another Beta version one month later, but we did it. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE.

According to our plans there will be only one more Beta version (3rd) after this one – after that we’ll hit Gold/Stable. You can see the currently open issues for Beta 3 here.

Color legend:

• Dark Blue – Small (new) feature/change
• Light Blue – Enhancement
• Orange – New Feature

We’re not mentioning bug fixes below (the same bug fixes applied to the 1.6 branch are also applied to 1.8 as of now and the bugs for 1.8 only are not mentioned as that would only be important if 1.8 was already stable.), only small feature changes, enhancements and entirely new features.

Some of the enhancements mentioned below are related to the previous Beta version (1st) of 1.8 and they should appear as one only in the final list of enhancements for MyBB 1.8.

AdminCP

• ACP shouldn’t reset $mybb->input – #754
• Admin CP language – #690
• Disable Default MyCodes – #686
• ACP Banning Improvements v2 – #628
• More recount tools – #494

Front-end

• Update $groupzerogreater array – #809
• CDN Compatbility – #776
• Goodbye Spammer – #775
• Add Time Zones – #764
• Thread Count – #761
• Buddy System Enhancements – #757
• Remove Hardcoded HTML – #756
• Database optimization – #738
• Contact Page Improvements – #715
• Overqualified Selectors – #700
• Subscription PM notification option – #689
• Expand Forum Moderator permissions – #688
• Add profile fields on registration – #687
• Admin and Email activation option – #685
• Publicly shown poll end date – #587
• CAPTCHA Improvements – #557
• Search Help Files – #497
• Invite-only joinable groups – #493
• Maximum Nested Quote Tags for PMs – #492
• Hide stuff users don’t have permission to use – #454
• Edit Reason – #451
• Add to mycode – #450
• User option to disable images/videos – #449
• Moderation Tools Improvements – #435
• Forum Statistics Improvements – #434
• Profile Fields Enhancements – #433
• Using update_query with BIT(1) fields – #360

Download

ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE! DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR LIVE WEBSITE TO THIS VERSION.

The download can be found here.

Upgrade

You are NOT supposed to upgrade any 1.6 boards to 1.8 Beta 2 hence why we do not provide upgrading instructions. This is because you will not be able to upgrade from any of the Betas to 1.8 AND because the upgrader is not working yet (right…so you try it and it won’t work anyway and you will definitely break your board. So DON’T DO IT!).

Bug Reports

Found a bug? (or perhaps a few more…) Please post your detailed bug report in the 1.8 Bug Reports forum.

Please always double-check if the issue hasn’t been reported already.

Themes and Plugins Assistance

If you have any development questions about possible issues you may have while upgrading your themes or your plugins – or issues you may actually be having – please post in this forum.

What’s next?

Work will now be moved to Beta 3 so we can release 1.8 gold/stable this summer as planned. Meanwhile, 2.0 development meetings have started so we can start working on 2.0 full time as soon as 1.8 hits stable.

Contributors

If you want to help us out and become a Contributor, be sure to read this blog post. If you’d rather join the team, feel free to contact us through Private Inquires.

Best Regards,
The MyBB Group

That’s right. After a long time of waiting we’re getting near a 1.8 stable release. Today it’s with great pleasure that we’re releasing the first beta version of MyBB 1.8. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE.

For some of you this may not mean much, for some others this may mean a lot. Quite a few things have been greatly enhanced and some important features have been added in this release.

Color legend:

• Dark Blue – Small (new) feature/change
• Light Blue – Enhancement
• Orange – New Feature

We’re not mentioning bug fixes below (the same bug fixes applied to the 1.6 branch are also applied to 1.8 as of now and the bugs for 1.8 only are not mentioned as that would only be important if 1.8 was already stable.), only small feature changes, enhancements and entirely new features.

AdminCP

• New theme – #561
• AdminCP PIN – #38
• Improved Newsfeed – #562
• Replace CodePress with CodeMirror – #37
• Stylesheet Display order – #562
• Inactive/active Plugin list – #573
• Ability to create own template groups – #588
• Added Enabled/Disabled indicators to Promotions and MyCodes – #457
• Template groups updates – #452
• Disable Attachments Globally – #495
• ACP Banning Improvements – #554
• Selectable areas for group/forum settings. – #428
• Warning for marked vulnerable plugins. – #0147b08

Front-end

• New Theme – #571
  • CSS buttons, PNG images, Sprite images, Fugue icons – #571
  • Attachable base colors for themes – #580
  • Relative Time – #558
  • Prototype to jQuery Conversion (yay!) – #251
  • Attachment Types Name – #442
  • CSS Minification – #564
• Add ltrim() to search users input – #590
• Change trim() in templates to rtrim() – #584
• A tool to rebuild reputation – #591
• Contact Page – #592
• Ability to delete default help topics – #589
• If user is invisible & permissions disallow, hide all public data – #593
• Post reputation should include thread subject – #594
• Remove Gallery; Integrate Gravatar – #582 #586
• Delete post on full edit should not show if no permission to delete – #595
• Add option to stick/unstick to custom tools – #435
• PM thread author in custom tools for threads – #581
• Users cannot rate their own posts – #570
• format_avatar() function – #569
• Whitelist of avatar upload extensions – #568
• Preview announcements – #567
• Minimum post length to exclude MyCode – #566
• IPv6 features – #565
• APC cache handler – #574
• $cache->delete method – #575
• is_member() function – #576
• delete_user() function – #408
• IP addresses in PMs – #563
• Don’t ask for validation if validation is disabled – #577
• Slow reply posting in long threads – #578
• Soft Delete – #560
• Login Datahandler – #572
• Add theme selector to footer – #496
• Forum redirect icon – #453
• Permission to reply to own threads – #409
• ModCP banned users list descending by default – #138
• Quick Reply PM – #437
• Poll Updates (Add poll link to thread page; limit of time before a thraed author can no longer add a poll) – #456
• Update contact fields – #455
• Are You a Human CAPTCHA – #443
• Report Center – #556
• More Hooks – #555
• Ability to sort Private Messages in inbox and other folders – #70
• Recount Warning Points – #85
• Warning points as a Group Promotion criteria – #88
• Registration date and last active time as mass mail criteria – #100
• Display profile fields on posts – #133
• Add “Display posts in classic mode” option when editing user in Admin CP – #107
• Move Edit Time Limit and Max Post Per Day to group settings – #114
• Recount Private Messages – #132
• Hide members from the Member List – #142
• Force redirect page – #550
• Searching plugins will highlight vulnerable ones (requires new Mods site) – Commit Link

Download

ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE! DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR LIVE WEBSITE TO THIS VERSION.

The download can be found here.

Upgrade

You are NOT supposed to upgrade any 1.6 boards to 1.8 Beta 1 hence why we do not provide upgrading instructions. This is because you will not be able to upgrade from any of the Betas to 1.8.

Bug Reports

Found a bug? (or perhaps a few more…) Please post your detailed bug report in the 1.8 Bug Reports forum. Please always double-check if the issue hasn’t been reported already.

Themes and Plugins Assistance

If you have any development questions about possible issues you may have while upgrading your themes or your plugins – or issues you may actually be having – please post in this forum.

What’s next?

We’re going to continue working hard on Beta 2 and start preparing 2.0 development so we can start working on it as soon as MyBB 1.8 hits stable this Summer. If you want to help us out and become a Contributor, make sure to read this blog post. If you’d rather join the team, feel free to contact through Private Inquires.

Best Regards,
The MyBB Group