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Future
On 8 April 2007, Simple Machines announced the introduction of their
next version, SMF 2.0 [12] . SMF 2.0 has been in development
alongside SMF 1.1 since December 2005. This version has many new
features, including:
• Database abstraction - with support for PostgreSQL and SQLite
planned alongside that of MySQL.
• Automatic installation of packages into themes other than just the
default.
• Email templates to simplify customization of forum emails.
• Moderation center including post, topic and attachment moderation
- to allow approving of user content before it is made public.
• User warning system.
A fresh installation of SMF 2.0 RC2, SMF's latest
preview release software
• Additional group functionally including group moderators and requestable/free assignable groups.
• WYSIWYG editor to provide an intuitive user interface to those users not familiar with BBCode.
• Permission improvements such as group inheritance and permission profiles to further reduce the complexity of
the permissions system.
• File based caching for a performance increase on all forums regardless of whether an accelerator is installed.
• Mail queuing system to stagger the sending of emails to improve performance on large forums.
• Advanced signature settings to allow the administrator of a forum to more tightly control the contents of users
signatures.
• Personal messaging improvements including ability to automatically sort incoming messages and a variety of
display options.
• Improved upgrade script with better timeout protection and simpler user interface.
• Custom profile fields to enable administrators to add additional member fields from the administration center.
• Use of OpenID.
The first public beta of SMF 2.0 was released on Monday, March 17 2008.
Localization
SMF is available in over 47 languages [13] , including Albanian, Arabic, Bangla (Bengali), Bulgarian, Catalan,
Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English British, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi,
Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish, Macedonian, Malay, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese,
Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese. SMF is
also being translated in another 30 languages by an online tool called Language Editor available for the official
translators of the SMF software. UTF-8 and non-UTF-8 encodings are available for all versions.