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Early last year, we announced the development of an official mascot which would be used in a variety ways to promote MyBB and its official merchandise. After countless hours of hard work, we’re proud to unveil our lustrous new mascot. MyBB Mascot During the planning stages, the MyBB team heavily debated on what would best [...]

MyBB 1.6.5 is now available from the MyBB website and is a feature update, security and maintenance release for the 1.6 series. What’s added/changed in this version? In 1.6.5, there are 3 vulnerabilities and over 70 reported issues fixed. Please be aware that not all of the existing problems have been fixed in this version. [...]

A little over two weeks ago we announced the discovery of a rather significant vulnerability which may have effected some users. At the time there was a lot of uncertainty regarding the circumstances, but I feel it’s time to follow up on our original announcement with what has since come to hand. I hope this will answer [...]

When 1.6.4 was announced almost 3 months ago it was one of the biggest updates MyBB has ever released. It fixed over 100 issues and brought performance improvements for MyBB forums – large or small – across the world. It was also popular for people who were new to MyBB – starting their project for [...]

MyBB Merge System 1.6.2 is now available on the MyBB website and is a maintenance update to the MyBB Merge 1.6 series. This release is to ensure that all users of MyBB Merge 1.6 have the latest fixes. This release fixes several reported issues since the release of 1.6.1, which caused some incorrect functionality of [...]

Note: you only need to read this if you upgraded to 1.6.4 before this blog post was made. If you have not upgraded yet, you will need this: http://blog.mybb.com/2011/07/26/mybb-1-6-4-released-feature-update-security-maintenance-release/ A few days ago, we released MyBB 1.6.4 – a feature update, maintenance and security release. We’ve noticed one or two problems with this, so we’ve [...]

MyBB 1.6.4 is now available from the MyBB website and is a feature update, security and maintenance release for the 1.6 series. What’s added/changed in this version? In 1.6.4, there are 2 new updates and over 100 reported issues fixed. Please be aware that not all of the existing problems have been fixed in this [...]

If you’ve used the MyBB Merge System v1.6.1 or earlier please download the file attached here, upload it to your forum root, and run it by going to http://yourdomain.com/yourforumpath/icr.php for security purposes. The reason for this is a potential security breach related to the “old db” password being stored in the datacache in plaintext form. [...]

After almost 8 years, MyBB has certainly come a long way. Its popularity among forum software is strong, and with the release of 1.6 almost a year ago it just keeps growing and growing. With its simplicity and extensions, there’s really nothing you can’t do with MyBB. Every member of the Team, past and present, [...]

MyBB 1.6.3 and 1.4.16 are now available to download. They fix 1 high risk vulnerability and 1 low risk vulnerability. We recommend everyone upgrades to this release immediately or patch their boards with the manual patching instructions below. Thanks to Charlie Somerville and thebod for discovering them. These vulnerabilities are: An SQL injection vulnerability in [...]