We are very pleased to announce the availability of the phpBB3 RC5 package. This is the fifth (and hopefully last) release candidate which is meant to become the Gold release if no more critical problems arise.

RC5 has seen some improvements as well as fixing some critical bugs. Some important fixes are for example:

• [Sec] Added alternative tokens to custom BBCodes which are safe for CSS/Javascript and changed TEXT token to entitise opening and closing parantheses.
• [Feature] New constant PHPBB_EMBEDDED can be used to let phpBB not call exit; if wrapped/embedded (We may re-check this constant on other code locations later too)
• [Feature] append_sid() having a check for the function append_sid_phpbb_hook(). This function is called in favour of append_sid() with the exact same parameters if present.
• [Feature] Add "DECIMAL:", "PDECIMAL", and "PDECIMAL:" to the schema creation code (Bug #13999) - patch provided by poyntesm
• [Feature] Display message history in compose PM screen
• [Change] Made group avatar/rank changes more intuitive
• [Change] Do not force login on visiting topic/forum from notification emails (Bug #13818)
• [Change] For new posts or editing the first post topic titles have a maxlength of 60 characters. For any subsequent posts the length is extended to 64 to make room for the Re: part, but cutting at 60 characters. The maxlength need to be 64, else users using opera are unable to post (opera does not allow pre-filling a field with more characters than specified within the maxlength attribute)
• [Change] Added a filter for user objects to LDAP configuration and improved explanations (Bug #12627)
• [Fix] Properly display ban reason if selecting banned entries within the ACP (Bug #13896)
• [Fix] Properly parse SQL expressions for Oracle (Bug #13916)
• [Fix] Display locked icon in viewforum/prosilver if forum locked (Bug #14009)
• [Fix] Fixed cron_lock value for cron execution. This bug led to users having problems with the email queue and other cron related issues.
• [Fix] Prevent white pages on php notices with gzip compression enabled (Bug #14096)
• [Fix] Let the theme immediately expire if changed from ACP for at least 30 minutes after change
• [Fix] If sending PM's to groups only include activated member (Bug #14040)
• [Fix] Correctly wrap words in emails containing utf8 characters (Bug #14109)
• [Fix] Disable gzip compression for cached stylesheet for Internet Explorer 6 or empty browser (IE6 is not able to properly display the compressed stylesheet) (Bug #14054)
• [Fix] Header icons fixed in FF for RTL languages (Bug #14084)
• [Fix] Allow line breaks in custom BBCodes (Bug #10758)
• [Fix] Convert 2.0 moderator posting permissions (Bug #14105)
• [Fix] odbc_autocommit causing existing result sets to be dropped (Bug #14182)

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