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Work on phpBB 3.0.x began in late 2002. It was
originally intended to be released as phpBB 2.2,
and the first planned feature list was announced
on May 25, 2003. [6] However, as development
progressed, the developers realised that phpBB
2.1.x (the development release cycle for 2.2) had
eliminated virtually all compatibility with the
2.0.x line, so the version number for release was
changed to 3.0.0, in keeping with the Linux
kernel versioning scheme, which phpBB
followed at the time. [7] In September 2005, Paul
Owen resigned as the Development Team
Leader and Meik Sievertsen was promoted to the
role.
phpBB forums are used frequently with multiplayer online game sites.
In March 2007, the phpBB teams had planned to undergo a short round of server maintenance, [8] however the server
crashed during the outage, suffering a double-disk failure and causing phpBB.com to be down for the full week. (The
phpBB teams indicated that phpBB, the software, was not the cause of the outage.) However, due to the unexpected
outage, the teams decided to change their original plans and launch their brand new website, powered by phpBB3
and the new prosilver theme. [9] This was a big surprise to most, as the theme had been a heavily guarded secret,
never before seen by the public, and was originally not intended to be revealed until the final release of phpBB 3.0.0.
Initial feedback was split, with many applauding the new theme and others criticising a number of new design
decisions, particularly the decision to display the user info on the right side of the viewtopic page (phpBB2's
subSilver theme had displayed it on the left). [10]
On April 30, 2007, phpBB founder and co-Project Manager James Atkinson officially resigned from his duties
towards phpBB, citing personal circumstances. With the announcement also came the announcement that phpBB
was now newly independent, and that the team leaders would be collectively taking charge of the decisions in the
future of the project. At the end of May, an announcement was made that Jonathan "SHS`" Stanley, the other
co-Project Manager, was stepping down as well for personal reasons.
On July 7, 2007, the teams announced that phpBB had been nominated as a finalist for the SourceForge.net
Community Choice Awards in the category of "Best Project for Communications". [11] At the end of the month,
SourceForge.net announced that phpBB had won the award for "Best Project for Communications", and in honour of
the award, SourceForge.net donated $1000 in phpBB's name to Marie Curie Cancer Care. [12] [13] phpBB also won a
"Thingamagoop" from Bleep Labs, and "bragging rights for a full year." [14]
The first beta of phpBB3 was released in June 2006, [15] and the first release candidate was released in May 2007. [16]
The phpBB3 codebase received an external security audit in September, which was done by SektionEins. [17] Finally,
[18] [19]
phpBB 3.0.0 "Olympus" (also dubbed the Gold release) was published on December 13, 2007.
In September 2007, the teams launched an official phpBB podcast. It was recorded by a rotating group of phpBB
team members with occasional guests, and discussed a number of phpBB-related topics, as well as answering
questions e-mailed in from listeners. [20] However, the podcast only lasted for a few episodes and production ceased
the following spring. Its successor is generally considered to be the new phpBB weblog, which launched in July
2008. The blog is written by phpBB team members (with occasional guest posts by community members) on various
topics related to phpBB and provide users with a unique inside look at the activities of the phpBB teams. [21]
The phpBB teams held their first-ever phpBB users conference in London on July 20, 2008, which was titled
"Londonvasion 2008." [22] Londonvasion featured presentations by phpBB team members on various topics
important to the phpBB community, MOD authors, and developers. Londonvasion provided a unique opportunity to