phpBB Group are pleased to announce the release of phpBB 2.0.10 the "Murphy is furry" release. This release had been made to fix one security related issue and some bugs introduced by the 2.0.9 release, plus two new ones. Work continues on 2.2.0 and again we do not plan on further releases of 2.0.x except where critical issues arise. Note that we do not intend dropping support for 2.0.x even after 2.2 is released.

As with previous releases three different packages are available:


* Full Package
Contains entire phpBB2 source and English language package
* Changed Files Only
Contains only those files changed from previous versions of phpBB. Please note this archive contains changed files for each previous release
* Patch Files
Contains patch compatible patches from the previous versions of phpBB.


Select whichever package is most suitable for you.

Please ensure you read the INSTALL and README documents in docs/ before proceeding with installation or updates!.

Note to 2.0.3 users intending to use the patch file version

Users of 2.0.3 intending to use the patch version may (but not necessarily will) need to run fixfiles.sh (found in the contrib/ directory with the downloaded archive) before patching.

We recommend that all 2.0.3 users do a "dry run" patch first to see whether this you need to use this fix. To do this append --dry-run to the patch command, e.g. patch -cl -p1 --dry-run < phpBB-2.0.3_to_2.0.10.patch. This will prevent any permanent changes being made to your installation. If you experience numerous (literally dozens and dozens) of hunk failed messages this applies to you.

To correct this problem go to your phpBB root directory, copy the fixfiles.sh to this location, chmod u+x fixfiles.sh and type ./fixfiles.sh. This will strip windows style carriage returns present in the 2.0.3 source.

What has changed in this release?

We will list a comprehensive list (with the necessary changes) here. For all of you still running 2.0.8(a), there will be a tutorial with code changes from 2.0.8 to 2.0.10, the following list is only for those running 2.0.9.

The main problem arised in 2.0.9 was for those having register_globals set to on and magic_quotes_gpc set to off. For those the board was nearly unusable. Additionally with the release of PHP5 users had to change a php.ini variable, which is now simulated by phpBB. Support for phpBB 2.0.x running under PHP5 is still not provided here. The common.php change: