• Added extra checks to the deletion code in privmsg.php - reported by party_fan
• Fixed XSS issue in IE using the url BBCode
• Fixed admin activation so that you must have administrator rights to activate accounts in this mode - reported by ieure
• Fixed get_username returning wrong row for usernames beginning with numerics - reported by Ptirhiik
• Pass username through phpbb_clean_username within validate_username function - AnthraX101
• Fixed PHP error in message_die function
• Fixed incorrect generation of {postrow.SEARCH_IMG} tag in viewtopic.php - reported by Double_J
• Also fixed above issue in usercp_viewprofile.php
• Fixed incorrect setting of user_level on pending members if a group is granted moderator rights - reported by halochat
• Fixed ordering of forums on admin_ug_auth.php to be consistant with other pages
• Correctly set username on posts when deleting a user from the admin panel

What has changed in this release?

The changelog (contained within this release) is as follows:

* Prevent login attempts from incrementing for inactive users
* Do not check maximum login attempts on re-authentication to the admin panel - tomknight
* Regenerate session keys on password change
* retrieving category rows in index.php (Bug #90)
* improved index performance by determining the permissions before iterating through all forums (Bug #91)
* Better handling of short usernames within the search (bug
#105)
* Send a no-cache header on admin pages as well as normal board pages (Bug #149)
* Apply word censors to the message when quoting it (Bug #405)

* Improved performance of query in admin_groups (Bug #753)
* Workaround for an issue in either PHP or MSSQL resulting in a space being returned instead of an empty string (bug #830)
* Correct use of default_style config value (Bug #861)
* Replace unneeded unset calls in admin_db_utilities.php - vanderaj
* Improved error handling in modcp.php
* Improved handling of forums to which the user does not have any explicit permissions - vanderaj
* Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_ranks.php, now requires confirmation of deletions
* Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_words.php, now requires confirmation of deletions
* Addition and editing of smilies can no longer be performed via GET, now requires confirmation of deletions
* Escape group names in admin_groups.php
* Replace strip_tags with htmlspecialchars in private message subject
* Some changes to HTML handling if enabled
* Escape any special characters in reverse dns - Anthrax101
* Typecast poll id values - Anthrax101
* Added configurable search flood control to reduce the effect of DoS style attacks
* Changed the way we create "random" values for use as keys -
chinchilla/Anthrax101
* Enabled Visual Confirmation by default
* Changed handling of the case where a selected style doesn't exist in the database
* Changed handling of topic pruning to improve performance
* Changed default forum permissions to only allow registered users to post in new forums