FluxBB is fast, light, user-friendly forum software for your website.

I am more than happy to announce the immediate availability of FluxBB v1.5.0!

Our focus for this release lay on new anti-spam features, which allow you to . This, in combination with the possibility to automatically promote users to another group once they reach a certain number of posts, is quite a simple way to demotivate spammers.

As this new functionality basically covers this old feature, we decided to remove the ranks feature.

Here are the 5 enhancements that were made:

• Per-group setting for disallowing links in posts (this also affects profile signatures and website fields).

• Promote users to new groups based on post count.

• Improve performance when updating topic reply counts.

• Added meta attributes for Google to make sense of pagination.

• Make labels for checkboxes and radio buttons in the admin panel clickable.

The following bugs were fixed:

• Use proper status codes for "Bad request" (and similar) error messages.

• Negative values in some config options leading to strange situations.

• Path disclosure through error messages in search.php (and others).

• Subscriptions were handled incorrectly when merging or splitting topics.

• Ignore BBCodes in search strings.

• The Technetium style had an issue with resizing images.

• Renaming users would unban them.

• and more...

As usual, downloads can be found on the download page.
Changed files and patches from 1.5-beta can be obtained on the upgrade page.

Updating to FluxBB 1.5.0, as usual, will still work if you use any prior version of FluxBB and even from PunBB 1.2/1.3.
As always, please remember to do a backup of both your files and database!

We received several pull requests on GitHub for this release. Thanks to the contributors arw and Insert Name Here. Also, thanks for the patches, Swyter.

For the sake of completeness: we kind of jumped over the release of v1.4.9. It includes all bugfixes of this release, but does not contain any of the anti-spam features. (Ranks are also still alive.)

As always, we'll be happy to answer your questions and help if you have any issues!