UPB 2.2.1 Released

The UPB Team is happy to have released UPB 2.2.1 on Apr 26 of this year. Special thanks to Clark and The_Ripper for their excellent and hard work to make this release possible. With this update, Clark joins the UPB Team. Please thank them on the forums if you see them.

To download this version, click here, and be sure to read the readme.txt file for install/update instructions.

New features

• Administrators can disable public registration
• Administrators can register users
• Administrators can set a configVar to approve/disallow newly registered users before they can log in
• Custom Avatars can either be uploaded, linked, or disabled
• IP Log revamped and added popular spider bots recognition
• Added a Preview Signature to UserCP,
• Smilies Management
• Post Icon Management
• Quick Edit
• Quick Reply
• New BBcode system
• New skinning system and skin(s) (not be compatible with previous skin)
• New Forum Management System
• Topic Bookmarking
• New User Restrictions
• SMTP support detection
• Developers: Expanded configVar API
• And so much more!

Bug Fixes

• Smilies now inserted at cursor position rather than at end of post
• Redirect to post after adding new post
• Announcements now able to be completely removed
• Avatar selection works
• Various minor bug fixes
• Last visit data moved to database
• Better forum and category sorting code
• Fixed bug where post details for deleted posts were appearing in Latest Topic/Post column
• Fixed skin selection security flaw
• Removed links to Homepage, Profile and Email on posts by Guests
• Banned users now notified they've been banned
• Users no longer able to access categories by editing cookie
• Removed mod_avatar.class.php (avatars will be managed by admins manually)
• Fixed a bug with viewtopic_simple.php that would not display the page numbers correctly