After nearly 2 months of development FUDforum 2.6.14 is finally out. Aside from the usual bug fixes this release includes a number of important improvements, such as full support for PHP 5.1 and introduction of a PDO database driver support, which enables FUDforum to talk with SQLite in addition to MySQL and PostgreSQL.

In addition to all of the changes in found in RC1 and RC2 there is a small number of modification made since then, a list of which can be found below.

The installer and the upgrade script can be found at their usual locations at:
http://fudforum.org/download.php and all FUDforum users are encouraged to upgrade.

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The 2nd release candidate of 2.6.14 was just published; this release performs the final bit of cleanup, code rearrangement and unification to make usage of PDO as a database interface possible. As of this release it is now possible to install FUDforum with the following PDO drivers: MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite in addition to the native MySQL and PostgreSQL interfaces.

Other important changes include fixes that accommodate the PHP 5.1 backwards compatibility (BC) breaks introduced after 5.1.0b1. Also, FUDforum no longer requires temporary tables, making their use optional, which should be welcome news to all the people who don't have the necessary privileges to perform this operation.

The installer and upgrade script are now available online and can be downloaded from:
http://fudforum.org/download.php

The release also includes various …

A new version of FUDforum is in the works, 2.6.14. This release is intended to introduce some new functionality as well as address any existing bugs. Some additional work has been done to enable future PDO support. At this time I already have a "beta" PDO driver that works with PostgreSQL, MySQL and partially supports SQLite. I hope to have it in CVS within a release or two.

This version can be downloaded at:
http://fudforum.org/download.php

New Features:

Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.
Allow resizing of the textarea for message posting.
Added ability to set temporary bans.
Added admin control panel to view all banned users.
Improved performance of threaded topic view list rendering.
Improved png hack for IE, it is now done by PHP.
Better caption for template set on theme editor.
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