Version 3.3.4 of phpBB was released today. It’s a maintenance version with no critical security fixes and no important new features. The only new feature that I could find is that it supports a new image format: WEBP, introduced by Google and supported by most browsers which provides more compact, lossless image rendering than PNG.
Mainly it offers better support for PHP 8. It contains a bug fix that I drew to their attention and an important fix that I stumbled across recently if you have unusual characters in your database name, which kept the database size from displaying and actually wouldn’t let you get into the ACP at all! But if you had this issue, you would have patched it already.
One thing you might notice: the RESET button goes away on a number of forms because, arguably, a RESET button is obsolete. One way to reset a form is simply to refresh the page.
So update to it if you want, but there is probably no tearing hurry for you to do so. You can download it from phpbb.com’s download page, read the announcement, see a summary of the release here and see all the issues addressed here.
