The forums went down for about 4 minutes today at 4:58 while we performed a software upgrade from version 2.0.0 Beta 2 to 2.0.0 Beta 3. This is a much better downtime than the first 2.0.0 Beta 1 to 2.0.0. Beta 2 upgrade, where it took about 30 minutes. Significantely lower downtime because of experience and the ability to test the upgrade locally before going live with it. Here are the changes with the new software:

Enhancements/New Features:

- Added ability for admin to bypass quotas and max character limits on PMs
- Added ability to display posts per day variable on showthread
- Added reverification of email address if a user changes it in his/her profile and email verification is enabled
- Added some error checking to moderator banning
- Make usergroup list look nicer
- Changes to postindexing so more situations are taken into account

Bug fixes:

- Fixed several security issues
- Fixed bug where announcements would show up more than once
- Make sure "sticky" threads are always visible even when they're outside of the "prune date"
- Fixed bug that would severly hinder moving threads when forumjump was off
- Fixed bug where email on PM settings weren't being saved during registration
- Fixed bug where an incorrect user had his/her PM quota status checked
- Ensure new posts/threads can't be made in forums that are closed
- Fixed bug (that may have been server specific) that prevented submission of new threads, replies, and editing of posts
- Fixed bug where forum last post times weren't always being correctly updated after a poll was posted
- Fixed bug where edited poll totals were being reset to their calculated totals after a vote
- Fixed bug where an incorrect username would be displayed when logging in
- Fixed bug where last post/last poster in forum wasn't taking you to the correct location
- Fixed post ordering option being ignored bug
- Fixed bug where going to directly to a post, and post ordering was newest first, wouldn't take you to the right post
- Fixed bug where guest posters would inherit an incorrect online status in showthread
- Fixed bug that caused polls to not be parsed under the permissions of the forum they were actually in
- Ensure jump to newpost or lastpost takes you to a valid post and thread
- Show correct templates when hit by flood check in search
- Fixed getadmin.php so no header warnings were displayed
- Ensure moderated messages appear in text area boxes
- Fixed bug that would prevent adding of profile fields
- Fixed "check all" check box in the mass avatar addition process
- Fixed bug that would prevent admins who didn't have their username saved from entering the control panel
- Attempted to address (as of yet, unproducable) session issues
- Fixed bug that wouldn't let you overwrite a style
- Fixed small issues in list bbcode
- Fixed bug that would prevent Netscape from selecting the correct forum in the forumjump dropdown
- Fixed bug where certain tables could have outdated data if the selective post deletion function was used

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