Forum

Private messages

• Send to multiple recipients
• Send to groups
• Send Blind Carbon Copies (BCC)
• Forward messages
• Friends list works as address book
• Attach files to PMs
• PM Drafts
• Conversation view
• PM folders
• PM filters
• Export Messages

Registration

• Enable/disable COPPA
• Limit registration attempts
• Set min/max username length
• Set min/max password length
• Limit username chars
• Set password complexity requirements
• Force password change
• Allow/disallow e-mail address re-usage

Search

• Search inside topics
• Select multiple forums and categories to search
• Search within topic titles only
• Search within first post of a topic only
• Set search flood interval to limit server load
• Select search backend (MySQL/phpBB)

Admin Control Panel

• More flexible and accessible tab layout
• Modular system allows for easy extensions
• Allow/disallow access to different functions
• New founder status for the board creator
• Completely re-structured for better handling

Moderator Control Panel

• Manage the moderation queue
• List of warnings and reports
• Forum, topic, and post detail views

Polls

• Multiple options per user
• Allow/disallow vote change

Usergroups

• Multiple group leaders
• Set display colour for group members
• Set group rank
• Set group avatar

Profile View

• More user statistics on profile view
• Signature on profile view
• Usergroups on profile view

Permissions

• More powerful and flexible permission system
• Simple permissions through roles
• Fine-tune admin and moderator access
• Super moderators

User Management

• Advanced user editing interface
• Edit user preferences
• Edit group memberships
• Show and edit all attachments of a user
• View permissions directly

More Improvements

• Moderator and admin control panels
• Set temporary bans
• Comments for bans
• Manage group memberships in the ACP
• Search members by all attributes

Attachments

• Attachments in posts and PMs
• Automatic image thumbnails
• Attach images, documents, video streams, archives
• Multiple attachments allowed
• Display attachments inline

Unlimited Subforums

• Create unlimited subforums
• Display active topics of all subforums

Custom BBCodes

• Create your own BBCodes
• Add buttons to posting screen

Custom Profile Fields

• Add new fields on user profiles
• Display them at registration
• Display them on the profile view
• Hide new profile fields
• Support different data types

User Control Panel

• Manage subscribed topics & forums
• Manage bookmarked topics
• Manage saved drafts
• Manage private messages
• Manage usergroups
• Manage friends and foes
• Manage attachments

New Moderating Tools

• Moderation queue
• Topic merging
• Topic copying
• Locking of single posts
• Topic history

Caching and performance

• Templates are cached
• Permissions are cached
• Forum config is cached
• Database queries are cached

Friends and Foes

• Add other members as friends or foes
• Posts by foes are hidden
• Friends are shown in friends list

Warnings and Reports

• Users can report topics and posts
• Moderators can warn users

More Improvements For Users

• Bookmark topics
• Subscribe to forums
• Jabber/XMPP support for notifications
• Mail or print topics
• "You were beaten at posting notification"

More Improvements For Admins

• Global announcements
• Display forum rules on forum page
• Prune inactive users
• User, moderator, admin and error logs
• Language pack editing
• User notes
• Detect search spiders