On June 10, 2009, phpBB's Development Team revealed that the next phpBB3 release, 3.0.6, will include a significant number of new features. This is unusual for a minor release which is typically limited to bug and security fixes. New features will include support for new CAPTCHA plugins, RSS and ATOM feeds, support for new cache plugins (XCache, Alternative PHP Cache, eAccelerator, and Memcache), and quick reply (an often-requested feature by a subset of phpBB users) among other minor feature additions. phpBB 3.0.6 is anticipated to be released in August/September 2009.
The Development Team has begun working on phpBB 3.1, formerly phpBB 3.2. (Before July 29, 2009, phpBB followed the original Linux kernel versioning scheme, in which the middle number represents a development version if it is odd and a stable version if it is even.) The developers previewed their planned feature list at Londonvasion, and new features include a complete overhaul of the Moderator Control Panel (MCP) and moderation capabilities, implementation of AJAX where it is applicable and helpful, a trigger-based event system, a completely rewritten BBCode system, RSS feed support, enhancements to custom profile fields, enhancements to private messaging, a new authentication system with OpenID support, and numerous other small changes and features. The phpBB teams maintain a website for phpBB development named Area51. In keeping with the tradition to codename every new phpBB3 release after Martian mountains, phpBB 3.1 will be code-named "Ascraeus," named after Ascraeus Mons, the second-tallest mountain on Mars. (Olympus Mons, which 3.0 was named after, is the tallest.)
In addition to development of phpBB 3.1, other phpBB teams also are in the process of developing numerous other tools for use by the community. Development for these tools can be followed on the phpBB Code Forge, which also contains the Subversion repositories for these tools and the main phpBB development trunk.
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