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MyBB 141
MyBB
A default installation of MyBB
Developer(s) MyBB Group
Stable
release
1.4.13 / April 19, 2010
Platform Web / PHP / SQL
Available in [1]
multilingual
Type Forum software
License GNU General Public License v3
Website www.mybb.com [2]
MyBB is a free bulletin board system software package developed by the MyBB Group. It is written in PHP and
licensed as free software under the GNU General Public License, version 3.
History
MyBB was founded in 2002 by Chris Boulton following a fork of the XMB development team. DevBB, a fork of the
XMB code base, was created as a temporary solution while the new MyBB development team worked on the first
MyBB release. [3]
MyBB RC1 was released on December 10, 2003, and was one of the first public releases of MyBB. [4] After three
years of development and numerous other pre-releases, MyBB 1.00 was released to the public on December 9, 2005,
marking the beginning of the 1.0x/1.1.x series. [5] On March 9, 2006, MyBB 1.1.0 was released, which fixed a
number of outstanding issues with the 1.0x code base. [6] The final release of the 1.0/1.1 series was MyBB 1.1.8, a
security update, released August 29, 2006. [7]
On September 2, 2006, MyBB 1.2 was released. It included a thoroughly rewritten and revised code base and over
40 new features. [8] The final release of the 1.2 series was MyBB 1.2.14, a security and maintenance update, released
on July 17, 2008. [9] Support for the 1.2 series ended on June 1, 2009, and security vulnerability maintenance of the
series ended on December 31, 2009. [10]
On August 2, 2008, MyBB 1.4 was released to the public following a long private and public beta test period. It
featured over 70 features and changes, including a completely rewritten and redesigned administrator control panel,
numerous new user moderation features, and a new calendar system. [11] As with previous releases, MyBB 1.4 was
released under its own proprietary license, but on October 12, 2008, it was moved to the GNU General Public
License v3 license, making it a free and open source software. MyBB 1.4.2 was the first release of MyBB released
under the GPL. [12] The current release of MyBB is 1.4.13, released on April 19, 2010, as a security patch for the
1.4.12 release. [13]