That’s right. After a long time of waiting we’re getting near a 1.8 stable release. Today it’s with great pleasure that we’re releasing the first beta version of MyBB 1.8. NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE.

For some of you this may not mean much, for some others this may mean a lot. Quite a few things have been greatly enhanced and some important features have been added in this release.

Color legend:

Dark Blue – Small (new) feature/change

– Small (new) feature/change Light Blue – Enhancement

– Enhancement Orange – New Feature

We’re not mentioning bug fixes below (the same bug fixes applied to the 1.6 branch are also applied to 1.8 as of now and the bugs for 1.8 only are not mentioned as that would only be important if 1.8 was already stable.), only small feature changes, enhancements and entirely new features.

AdminCP

New theme – #561

– #561 AdminCP PIN – #38

– #38 Improved Newsfeed – #562

– #562 Replace CodePress with CodeMirror – #37

– #37 Stylesheet Display order – #562

– #562 Inactive/active Plugin list – #573

– #573 Ability to create own template groups – #588

– #588 Added Enabled/Disabled indicators to Promotions and MyCodes – #457

– #457 Template groups updates – #452

– #452 Disable Attachments Globally – #495

– #495 ACP Banning Improvements – #554

– #554 Selectable areas for group/forum settings. – #428

– #428 Warning for marked vulnerable plugins. – #0147b08

Front-end

New Theme – #571 CSS buttons, PNG images, Sprite images, Fugue icons – #571 Attachable base colors for themes – #580 Relative Time – #558 Prototype to jQuery Conversion (yay!) – #251 Attachment Types Name – #442 CSS Minification – #564

Add ltrim() to search users input – #590

– #590 Change trim() in templates to rtrim() – #584

– #584 A tool to rebuild reputation – #591

– #591 Contact Page – #592

– #592 Ability to delete default help topics – #589

– #589 If user is invisible & permissions disallow, hide all public data – #593

– #593 Post reputation should include thread subject – #594

– #594 Remove Gallery; Integrate Gravatar – #582 #586

– #582 #586 Delete post on full edit should not show if no permission to delete – #595

– #595 Add option to stick/unstick to custom tools – #435

– #435 PM thread author in custom tools for threads – #581

– #581 Users cannot rate their own posts – #570

– #570 format_avatar() function – #569

– #569 Whitelist of avatar upload extensions – #568

– #568 Preview announcements – #567

– #567 Minimum post length to exclude MyCode – #566

– #566 IPv6 features – #565

– #565 APC cache handler – #574

– #574 $cache->delete method – #575

– #575 is_member() function – #576

– #576 delete_user() function – #408

– #408 IP addresses in PMs – #563

– #563 Don’t ask for validation if validation is disabled – #577

– #577 Slow reply posting in long threads – #578

– #578 Soft Delete – #560

– #560 Login Datahandler – #572

– #572 Add theme selector to footer – #496

– #496 Forum redirect icon – #453

– #453 Permission to reply to own threads – #409

– #409 ModCP banned users list descending by default – #138

– #138 Quick Reply PM – #437

– #437 Poll Updates (Add poll link to thread page; limit of time before a thraed author can no longer add a poll) – #456

– #456 Update contact fields – #455

– #455 Are You a Human CAPTCHA – #443

– #443 Report Center – #556

– #556 More Hooks – #555

– #555 Ability to sort Private Messages in inbox and other folders – #70

– #70 Recount Warning Points – #85

– #85 Warning points as a Group Promotion criteria – #88

– #88 Registration date and last active time as mass mail criteria – #100

– #100 Display profile fields on posts – #133

– #133 Add “Display posts in classic mode” option when editing user in Admin CP – #107

– #107 Move Edit Time Limit and Max Post Per Day to group settings – #114

– #114 Recount Private Messages – #132

– #132 Hide members from the Member List – #142

– #142 Force redirect page – #550

– #550 Searching plugins will highlight vulnerable ones (requires new Mods site) – Commit Link

Download

ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS NOT READY TO BE USED ON A LIVE WEBSITE! DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR LIVE WEBSITE TO THIS VERSION.

The download can be found here.

Upgrade

You are NOT supposed to upgrade any 1.6 boards to 1.8 Beta 1 hence why we do not provide upgrading instructions. This is because you will not be able to upgrade from any of the Betas to 1.8.

Bug Reports

Found a bug? (or perhaps a few more…) Please post your detailed bug report in the 1.8 Bug Reports forum. Please always double-check if the issue hasn’t been reported already.

Themes and Plugins Assistance

If you have any development questions about possible issues you may have while upgrading your themes or your plugins – or issues you may actually be having – please post in this forum.

What’s next?

We’re going to continue working hard on Beta 2 and start preparing 2.0 development so we can start working on it as soon as MyBB 1.8 hits stable this Summer. If you want to help us out and become a Contributor, make sure to read this blog post. If you’d rather join the team, feel free to contact through Private Inquires.

Best Regards,

The MyBB Group