Over the past few days, I’ve received no less than three phpbb announcements of what looks like two new versions, and a revision of the most newest version.
Basically there’s version 2.0.17, which they’ve dubbed the “no, we did not forget naming it last time” release. Considering that there was still a bit of humor in that announcement, they were still feeling good about themselves.
A few hours later I then got the phpBB 2.0.18, “The Halloween Special” release announcement, the diff between .17 and .18 I really don’t know yet about.
Yup, still feeling pretty ok at that point.
After which I then got the phpBB 2.0.18 “repackaged”, announcement, where they get more serious-like. :
we just noticed that some changes were not checked in to CVS and thus been missing within the released 2.0.18 packages. We repackaged phpBB 2.0.18 and also updated the changed files package.
Please have a look at the original announcement at http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=336756 for all changes. The files in question are common.php (just one tiny change) and includes/usercp_register.php (several changes).
For all of you having uploaded the packages or the code changes to their sites, please grab the packages again and inform your users about the changes. Sorry for the inconvenience. We will evaluate what went wrong internally and why this happened.
I can imagine there would be the normal pissed-off posts from web administrators worldwide after that, after having uploaded the latest ones upon receipt of the initial announcement.
Me, I prefer to wait a little (read: lazy lazy lazy lazy). But apparently, being lazy paid off! So this week, I learned that when a update arrives, sit on your ass and stare into space. I’m not even going to get into how Microsoft has taught most of us that the hard way, with its unbelievably inept upgrades. At any rate, will wait a week, then start updating my installations. PHPbb has its flaws (and numerous critics because of them), but I’m a believer in forums, and I’m sticking with phpbb inspite of glitches like above.