Yesterday support member Ryan Ashbrook left the MyBB team. An official announcement is yet to be made on the community forums. I will however note that in a conversation I had with him on MSN this morning he said he is still going to participate in MyBB and MyBB Fans, and that he has no intention of leaving his friends at MyBB. He also said he will continue to support the various plugins he has released for MyBB in the foreseeable future.
Well thanks Ryan, you have been a fantastic support member. I wish you luck with your future endeavours .
Archive for November, 2007
Ryan Ashbrook leaves the support team.
Published by November 20th, 2007 in MyBB Community. 2 CommentsAs PHP6 is around the corner and PHP5 has been released for over three years, PHP is officially discontinuing development of their 4.4.x branch at the end of this year except to patch critical security issues.
In tandem with this, the MyBB Group will be dropping support for PHP4 for the next feature release (i.e., 1.6.0 or 2.0.0) coming in 2008. Some new features that PHP5 has provided are much better OOP features, a “MySQL-Improved” extension and many new built-in functions. Many of these new features are not backwards-compatible with PHP4 which meant that the MyBB Group had to find ways to allow both versions of PHP to return the same result.
With the termination of PHP4 support, MyBB developers can fully capture and utilize the “new” (not really since PHP5 is 3 years old) features that were released in PHP5 without having to worry about backward-compatibility. Thus, the MyBB code can be more streamlined and show improved performance.
Of course this move comes with a price: MyBB users on web hosts with PHP4 will not be able to use newer versions of MyBB (after 1.4.x).
MyBB isn’t the only PHP application going in this direction. See GoPHP5 for a listing of other projects taking part in this motion.
Do you think this move is a good idea? Does your host still use PHP4? Leave your comments 
The MyBB Group has started beta testing MyBB 1.2.10, the next maintenance release in the MyBB 1.2.x branch. The lucky few have already been selected. It is unknown whether or not there will be subsequent “rounds” of beta testing since this is a minor release.
MyBB 1.2.10 fixes the bugs since the last maintenance release. It will be the last scheduled maintenance release before MyBB 1.4.0, the major upgrade that everybody has been anxiously waiting for.
So expect to see MyBB 1.2.10 being released soon, marking one step closer to MyBB 1.4.0
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