FluxBB
 | This article may contain excessive or inappropriate references to self-published sources. (August 2008) |
| This article contains promotional content. (August 2008) |
 FluxBB 1.3 Screenshot | |
| Developer(s) | FluxBB.org Developers |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 1.2.20
/ July 13, 2008 |
| Preview release | 1.3 Beta 2
/ 2008-05-09 |
| Operating system | PHP / MySQL |
| Type | Internet forum |
| License | GPL |
| Website | fluxbb.org |
FluxBB aims to be a fast and lightweight PHP-powered discussion board. It is released under the GNU General Public License[1][2]. Its primary goals are to be faster, smaller and less graphically intensive when compared to other discussion boards. FluxBB incorporates fewer features than other, comparable forum scripts, choosing to focus on the primary functionality of an online forum. Features that are not deemed as essential to the software are often implemented either by the development team or by users as extensions[3]. As a result of this more focused feature set, FluxBB is generally faster and outputs smaller, semantically correct XHTML and CSS-compliant pages.[4]
Currently, FluxBB runs on a number of operating systems that are able to support the PHP scripting language. To store its data, FluxBB relies on either MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite.[5]
It takes its origins from PunBB on May 9, 2008.[6] Currently PunBB is importing many of the changes to the FluxBB core into its own SVN to maintain compatibility between the two forum systems, it is foreseen that the two forums' feature sets will diverge in the future.[7]
History
FluxBB is a fork of PunBB which was created by Rickard Andersson. In 2007, PunBB was sold to a commercial company. Development continued under the direction of Rickard Andersson until April 2008. At that time Rickard Andersson announced he would be ceasing his active involvement with the project, at least temporarily.
In light of the changed circumstances the remaining members of the development team decided to fork the project in order to regain control over future project direction. FluxBB was the result of this decision.[4]
The current stable release is FluxBB 1.2.20. FluxBB 1.2.18 is an update to PunBB 1.2.17. The next version, FluxBB 1.3, is under active development and is currently in a beta stage.[8]
FluxBB was announced as a finalist in SourceForge.net's 2008 Community Choice Awards in the "Best New Project" category[9].
Features
FluxBB's default theme is called Oxygen.
- Semantic and valid XHTML and CSS
- Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
- Support for translation and per-user language settings
- Extension system that allows functionality to be changed or added without directly editing the source (v1.3)
- Full support for UTF-8 (v1.3)
- Distributed under GNU General Public Licence
- Multiple themes with per-user settings
FluxBB 1.3, which is currently under development, adds a one-click extension system which will allow users to easily extend features and functionality. Version 1.3 also improves markup and CSS.[10]
Release history
| Key: | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old release not supported |
Old release still supported |
Current release | Test release | Future release |
| Name | Version | Release date | Significant changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| FluxBB 1.2 | 1.2.18 | 2008-05-09[6] | A stability update for 1.2 which fixes several known issues with PunBB 1.2.17. |
| 1.2.19 | 2008-07-10[11] | Addresses three fairly serious security vulnerabilities and provides a fix for an issue with userlist.php. | |
| 1.2.20 | 2008-07-13[12] | Removes the code added in include/parser.php which was causing the BBCode issue and replaces it with new code which handles the underlying issue in a different way. | |
| FluxBB 1.3 | 1.3 Beta 2 | 2008-05-09 | First FluxBB 1.3 beta release. |
| 1.3 Beta 3 | Second FluxBB 1.3 beta release. | ||
| 1.3 RC1 | First release candidate of FluxBB 1.3. |
References
- ^ Ohloh code analysis
- ^ Open source PHP
- ^ Community extensions
- ^ a b About FluxBB
- ^ Requirements of FluxBB
- ^ a b Connor (2008-05-09). "Development team annoucement". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-05-10.
- ^ PunBB forums - PunBB 1.3 RC
- ^ Download FluxBB
- ^ Sourceforge CCA 2008 finalists
- ^ FluxBB Development
- ^ Smartys (2008-07-10). "FluxBB 1.2.19 and 1.3 hotfixes released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-07-10.
- ^ Smartys (2008-07-10). "FluxBB 1.2.20 released". FluxBB.org. Retrieved 2008-07-13.
