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New release candidate for Simple Machine Forum (SMF 1.1 RC3)

By Bryan - Posted on 22 August 2006

A new version of SMF has been released to the public, SMF 1.1 RC3. For users of the forum software, this has been an unusually long period of time for waiting to see a new release candidate of the software.

Some of the new features and improvements as listed in the official announcement:

  • Many, many changes for UTF8 support. (UTF8 is the language most Web applications are going).
  • Many tweaks to the search functionality.
  • Added a CAPTCHA option to the registration page (Including audio support for accessibility).
  • Added an AJAX loading indicator to show when a server request is taking place.
  • Fixed a bug with subject cache being out of sync.
  • Fixed issues with notifications being sent in the wrong language.
  • Many changes to the numerous bridges Orstio has created for SMF.


For those not familiar with SMF RCs...the release candidates for SMF are particularly stable and many users often consider them more as full releases instead of release candidates. In other words, I'll likely be upgrading my own SMF forums to 1.1 RC3 when time allows. The link to download SMF 1.1 RC3 can be found at Simple Machines: http://www.simplemachines.org/download/ .

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#1 SMF beats phpBB

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Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 23, 2006 - 11:05pm.
After the ten zillion security upgrades last year with phpBB, I moved to SMF 1.1 RCx. My days are so much simpler with SMF. The SMF forum doesn't take much admin work compared to what was required with phpBB.
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Bryan Ruby is the owner and editor for CMS Report. He founded CMSReport.com in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers desired visiting sites where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. Outside of his late night blogging hours, he is the Information Technology Officer for a field office in the federal government.