PunBB 1.3

Current stable release.

New in PunBB 1.3 (compared to 1.2.*)

Extension system based on hooks allowing one click extension installation (no code mods anymore).
Hotfixes: little extensions operatively fixing security bugs.
Notifications for new versions of forum or installed extensions.
Searches are now case-insensitive, extern.php improved, more global, per-group and per-user options added.
Split/merge topics functionality.
Multiple groups for moderators allowed.
Full support for UTF-8.
- MySQL requirement bumped to 4.1.2 to realize proper UTF-8 support.
- Certain “bad” characters are silently stripped out from the text input.
Language packs support for the admin console.
Better BBCode parser.
URL rewriting schemes, nice URL's built-in.
Improved markup/css to provide greater flexibility and accessibility.
Styles now have their own template sets.
Improved/added more database helper functions.
Official extensions produced and maintained by PunBB developers.