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Two months ago we launched a competition to look for more smiley sets. We received many applications. However many used copyrighted images, which we cannot permit. After much work we shortlisted four sets from all the submissions that met the guidelines.
An SMF team and charter vote has finally given us a winner. Before we announce the winner, we wish to thank Spektral, SoLoGHoST and islam2hamy for making it through to the final.  Your smileys are now on the long awaited "Smiley of the moment" feature in the admin panel. We would love to see more smileys in future from all of you!
However there must be only one winner.  After counting the scores we are happy to announce that first prize goes to:
 
SoLoGhOsT with his Solosmileys Non Animated
 
The Winning Entry

Simple Machines is proud to announce the immediate release of SMF 2.0 RC2 to Charter Members. This is the long awaited Second Release Candidate for 2.0 and is one of the last steps towards 2.0 going gold. Literally hundreds of bugs that were reported after the release of RC1 have been fixed and improvements have been made to security, stability, and performance.

As promised, 2.0 RC2 boasts our new Curve theme, which has been made the new default theme. The previous default theme has been renamed Core. Please note Classic and Babylon themes have been removed from the package and are now only available by the theme site.

Major changes since the last release:

• Inclusion of the Curve theme
• Fixed a significant number of bugs reported by Beta Testers, Charter members, and community members.
• Optimized hundreds of queries for faster performance (with new indexes, re-written queries etc, changes to column type)
• Canonical link support for better search engine indexing
• Feature: ability to have different readmes in packages for different languages
• Feature: ability to delete languages (oops! we forgot that earlier)
• Linktrees have been re-added to the lower-areas of the forum. Also, linktrees have been added to the admin, moderation and profile sections.
• Lighttpd support for Queryless urls
• Improved support for right to left languages
• Fixed OpenID
• Extra fields to for Advanced Profile fields to surround/enclose within other text, and to choose placement as icon or signature.
• Several theme improvements for better semantics and standards support.
• Moved more JS out of templates
• Wireless links to switch back to normal mode.

Simple Machines would like to thank its Charter Members for their continued support for SMF.

Regards,

Simple Machines

Simple Machines would like to announce the opening of our first Smiley Contest, to give our community members the challenge to create some new and exciting smileys.

We are looking to introduce a new smiley set into SMF 2.0, and we have a few concepts that our team members have developed, but we want to see what our community can contribute. We also want to increase the number of smileys available on our modifications site, and start using the "Smileys of the moment" feature in every SMF install. Your work could be broadcast round the SMF ecosystem!

To enter just submit a smiley set to the modifications site and include somewhere in the description "for the Smiley Contest". Alternatively, email them to smile@simplemachines.org in a zipped file. The competition will run for one month, at the end of which voting will be presented to the SMF Team, the Charter Members and the Beta Testers.

Prizes:
First prize will win a Simple Machines Charter Membership. (Worth $50!)
Runners up (and first place) will have their entries broadcast to every SMF forum with our "Smileys of the Moment" feature.


Smileys Required

angel	angry	cheesy	cool	cry	embarrassed
grin	huh	kiss	lipsrsealed	rolleyes	sad
shocked	smiley	tongue	undecided	wink	blank

Not Required, But Preferred

afro

police

azn

laugh

evil

Terms and Conditions:

• All work MUST be your own - plagiarism from other sites/software will disqualify all of your entries!
• If the winning entry is selected to be a new default smiley set, that set will become the sole property of Simple Machines LLC.
• SMF is under no obligation to use the winning set, nor any other entry as our new default smileys.
• Member formed team entries will be eligible to win, but only one Charter Membership will be awarded.
• The standard 17 smileys and one blank smiley must be included.
• A "cover image" must be included, with all smileys displayed.
• If you use a layer file, such as a PSD, please enclose it too.
• All smileys must be the same height and between 14-18px.
• All smileys must be in either GIF or PNG format with transparent backgrounds.

Good Luck!

Feel free to post any questions, any examples or work in progress art. Multiple entries are allowed.

Simple Machines announces the release of SMF 1.1.10 and 2.0 RC1.2, addressing a few vulnerabilities found in SMF 1.1.9 and 2.0 RC1-1. Also for those still using the SMF 1.0.x branch, an upgrade to 1.0.18 was released. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

Please note that SMF 2.0 RC1.2 is not the second release candidate for SMF 2.0, but merely a security-updated version of the first release candidate. RC2 is not quite ready yet, and the new Curve theme is still scheduled for SMF 2.0 RC2, as announced earlier. For more information read the latest developers blog entry about progress towards RC2's release.

Users running 2.0 RC1 will need to upgrade to 2.0 RC1-1 BEFORE upgrading to 2.0 RC1.2.

Upgrade automatically by visiting your administration center, where a notice will be displayed prompting you to upgrade. Click the link, confirm the changes and your forum will be up to date again. Additionally, you can upgrade using the package manager by downloading the attached patch, uploading it to the package manager, and applying it as prompted. For help with this refer to the Package Manager section of the Online Manual.

If you cannot upgrade using the package manager, please follow the instructions posted in the Online Manual about installing and upgrading. If you experience a session verification error when inputting FTP details for updating process, please see this topic.

It may be necessary to apply the upgrade manually if mod conflicts mean that you cannot install the patch through the package manager. Instructions for doing this can be found on this page for all versions.

Finally - please do not use this topic for any support requests. You will get a much more prompt response by visiting the relevant support board!

Regards,
Simple Machines

From the start, Simple Machines Forum has been made by many people around the globe and has been translated and supported in many languages. The software has always been developed with localization in mind.  Our translators provide a large number of translations in a relatively short time frame and the number of translations is still growing.

To stress the importance of internationalization, Simple Machines has created the Internationalization Team. They will supervise translations, develop new concepts and ideas for better internationalized software & support and facilitate other teams to be more localization-aware.

So, what can you expect in the future?

• Better and more personalized support in your country and language
• Software development that is even more focused on localization characteristics
• Translation in more languages and more things translated (site translations, modifications translations, etc.)

What can you do to help?

• We are always looking for translators for any of the non-English languages. See this topic.
  
• Post your suggestions for the new team in this topic. What can Simple Machines do to improve support for your country or language?