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We are pleased to announce that negotiations have opened in an attempt to reach a mutually satisfactory solution to the recent disputes between the current SMF team management and the SMF Friends group.

The discussion will be chaired by Kindred (Operations Manager for the SMF team).
He was selected because he is recognized as fair and objective by both parties to the negotiations.

The negotiators for the SMF team are:

Compuart (Lead Developer)

SleePy (Site Manager)

The negotiators for the SMF Friends are:

Douglas

Eren Yasarkurt


Please note that while we are cautiously optimistic that such a solution is possible it will not happen overnight. Regular updates will be made public as discussions proceed, but we do ask that the negotiators are left to do their jobs without undue public pressure.

All of them also have other things to take care of in their work lives and private lives so a reasonable amount of time must be allowed for them to do this job as well.

Thank you in advance for your understanding.

Dear Community Members,

Over the last few years, Simple Machines has grown significantly, and with growth come new challenges to overcome.  Our commitment and dedication to ensuring a professional, high quality, and stable release requires us to occasionally take a step back and look at what is and is not working.  In order to address those challenges and improve our workflow, we are restructuring our team to better prepare for our future endeavors and place people within the organization where they are best suited to achieve our goals.

We aim to make this transition as efficient as possible to the general public; however as with any reorganization, we expect a few speed bumps along the way and we ask for your patience and understanding.  This move will allow us to improve our development process and get back on track for releasing the Gold Release of SMF 2.0 as soon as possible, as well as allow our core developers to concentrate on the future of Simple Machines and producing quality products beyond a bulletin board system.

2010 is going to be a great year for Simple Machines, SMF and this community. Already with some changes in place, we have many exciting announcements to be made, and a lot of impressive work to show. We have positioned ourselves to ensure the continuation of the Simple Machines project against personal advancement and individual gain, ensuring we are protecting the very foundation of what we are, a team driven project.

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We know some of you may have some questions, so below is a quick Q&A.

Question: Will SMF go paid, or is it in the works?
Answer: No, SMF will ALWAYS be FREE.

Question: Why are Simple Machines not embracing the free software movement, with licenses and an open structure?
Answer: We are always looking to improve our operation. Part of the recent proceedings have been to put the appropriate people in place to properly research and evaluate moves to less restrictive licensing, and more open structuring. We hope to post our findings and evaluate later on.


Thank you,
The Simple Machines Team

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that I will
be at the datacenter tomorrow, 12/31/09 around 2PM EST to do a little server maintenance. The site will probably be down for 45 minutes or so.

Simple Machines announces the release of SMF 1.1.11, addressing multiple vulnerabilities found in SMF 1.1.10. Also for those still using the SMF 1.0.x branch, an upgrade to 1.0.19 was released. We strongly recommend that all users upgrade as soon as possible.

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 manual upgrades page for SMF 1.1.11 and 1.0.19.

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

Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 2.0 RC2 Public. 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. We recommend that all users of earlier development versions upgrade as soon as possible.

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 that the Classic and Babylon themes have been removed from the package and are now only available on the theme site.

Major changes since the last public release:

• Inclusion of the Curve theme.
• Three brand-new smiley sets.
• 960 new entries in the changelog, which consist of:
  • Fixes for a significant number of bugs reported by Beta Testers, Charter members, and community members.
  • Hundreds of queries optimized for faster performance (new indexes, re-written queries, changes to column type, etc)
  • Canonical link support for better search engine indexing
  • New feature: ability to have different readmes in packages for different languages
  • New feature: ability to delete languages (oops! we forgot that earlier)
  • Linktrees have been added to the lower-areas of the forum and to the admin, moderation and profile sections.
  • Lighttpd support for Queryless urls
  • Improved support for right to left languages
  • OpenID is fixed
  • Extra fields for Advanced Profile fields (surround/enclose within other text, and 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.

Those interested in the detailed changelog may like to download it on our download page.

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