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We have decided to completely rewrite the software from scrath.
The time limits we imposed on ourselves duriong start of the project have vanished and we will use the time we have to completely rewrite the software using the great PRADO PHP framework.
An early release of the rewritten software is scheduled in about three weeks. There will not be many features that were available before, but stay tuned.

Today the latest version of the web-based bulletin board software was released.

Auboard is hosted in a subversion SCM on Sourceforge starting today.
We were unfortunately unable to migrate tzhe whole history of the project so you cannot get versions 0.2 or older from the subversion repository. But you can still use CVS to get those versions (if you like to).

The alpha version 0.2 of the new Auboard bulletin board software was released today to the public.

This version is still not usable for production but provides a lot of new features and features available in the first alpha version were greatly enhanced. The major changes are:
* Private messaging system
* User registration
* Cleanup of templates including XSS fixes
* Help system with some content
* Only display a certain number of threads / posts per page
* Form mailer for email addresses displayed as images
* Users may manage their profile
* Administration backend started
* Auboard Code parser rewritten from scratch ... read more

I'm glad to announce a new release of the PEAR::Text_Highlighter package contains a patch contributed by us to enable different class styles for different source languages. So using the official release of this PEAR class does not render this Auboard feature unusable and installing it manually in the Auboard distribution directory is not neccessary anymore.
Furher we took the step to replace the regular expression based Auboard code (BBCode) parser with a parser based one. Currently we are implementing it in a very strict way, enforcing users to use syntactically correct code to be able to make a posting. We'd like to get some input on wether this should be relaxed or not.

Auboard, a new web based bulletin board or forum software written in PHP 5, has released its first preview release. This release is an early version and not suitable for production environments.

This release is neither feature complete nor bug free but gives everyone interested the opportunity to test drive the software as basic forum functionality is already working so far. It already includes functionality to create, delete, move, stick or close threads and posts, use BBCode to format posts including syntax highlighting for multiple languages, ability to protect mail addresses from spammers or write private messages to other users. Installation instructions and software requirements are listed on the project's website.... read more