I would guess somewhere in the first half of October the latest version of the current forum software will be released, basically it will just add features and be a fairly simple upgrade.



The added features include, but are not limited too:



Other: [NEW] Events Calendar

Other: [NEW] COPPA compliance



Private Messages: [NEW] Forward Message

Private Messages: Improved UI

Private Messages: [NEW] Message Tracking

Private Messages: [NEW] Carbon Copy Feature

Private Messages: [NEW] Save as draft feature

Private Messages: [NEW] Ability to receive email notification of any new private messages



Posting: [NEW] Ability to remove, or change an attachment when editing

Posting: [NEW] Ability to add or remove the "Edit by" line (group setting)

Posting: [NEW] Ability to restrict the time edits are allowed

Posting: [NEW] Root forums can accept sub forums and remain postable

Posting: [NEW] Admin ability to stop quote embedding

*Posting: [NEW] Group Promotion; admin option (per group) to allow a member to be promoted to another group based on posts

Posting: [IMPROVED] Improved Code Buttons



Moderation: [NEW] Ability to view / unsubscribe all users from a topic

*Moderation: [NEW] Ability to merge two topics into one

*Moderation: [NEW] Ability to split a topic into two



Search: [NEW] Search flooding added (by member group)

Search: [NEW] View results as posts

Search: [IMPROVED] Increase in speed and effiency



Interface: [NEW] Users browsing forums feature (can be switched off)

Interface: [NEW] Users browsing topics feature (can be switched off)

Interface: [NEW] Yahoo! Icon linked to Yahoo! Messenger Console

Interface: [NEW] MSN Icon linked to MSN Messenger Console

Interface: [NEW] Ability to choose posts per page and topics per page

Interface: [NEW] Report post to moderator link on each post

Interface: [NEW] Who posted featurette

Interface: [NEW] "Browse Buddy"; a floating 'pallete' launcher

*Interface: [IMPROVED] Base skin font sizes increased

Interface: [IMPROVED] Edited by line now in viewers time zone

*Interface: [IMPROVED] Pinned topics have their own HTML rows and start / end rows



Active Users: [NEW] Admin Group ability to view "anonymous" users

Active Users: [NEW] Admin Group ability to view online user IP addresses

Active Users: [NEW] Link to topic with topic name a user is browsing





Subscriptions: [NEW] Ability to "auto track" topics you participate in

Subscriptions: [NEW] Ability to receive notification of new topics in a forum via "Forum Subscription" feature

Subscriptions: [IMPROVED] Viewing current subscriptions list grouped by forum

Subscriptions: [IMPROVED] Frequency of emails for tracked topics increased to 1 per board visit



This does not inlclude a large list of admin cp features. I'll keep you posted as to when the update will occur, as always I will stay up late, do the upgrade when few people are on, maybe an hour of having the board offline.

 

cool

 

Sounds good.

 

The general discussion section was missing.

 

you have to log in to see it gen d now

 

I know...that's sweet.

 

Sounds good man! And the mods even get some new ****! Sweet!