SMF 2.0 Release Candidate 2 is out for Charter Members!

[Aaron]

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

[Antechinus]

Yay!

[shadow82x]

Yes, hurray!

[Fustrate]

DO IT ALREADDYYYYYYYYYYY

* Fustrate throws things at Aaron

[Arantor]

It's out there on the d/l page for team and charter AFAICT.

Congratulations

[Marcus Forsberg]

* Fustrate throws things at Aaron

* Nas throws Fustrate at Aaron

[Fustrate]

* Fustrate throws things at Aaron

* Nas throws Fustrate at Aaron

* Fustrate flies towards Aaron at supersonic speeds

Blazing fast, just like SMF

[Antechinus]

Well since it's been released I suppose it must be ready then. Now everyone can stop asking.

[Arantor]

* Arantor hauls everyone off Aaron so he can get the announcement out without distractions

[Marcus Forsberg]

It IS out, Arantor!

[Arantor]

This topic wasn't in News & Updates when I first tried to post it

Great news though, whatever way you slice it.

[vbgamer45]

Congrats! Time to work on the mods updates!

[Tristan Perry]

This update has been worked on so much by all the SMF team, is great to see it released

Well done to the team.

[Nathaniel]

Woot!

Been looking forward to this release.

[SleePy]

Woohoo!
Congratulations to not only the developers, but our beta testers, team members and community members for reporting all those bugs

[tyty1234]

Now I may not be a Charter Member, but this is definitely good news! Yay!

[poolhall]

Congratulations!

Can't wait to download it  What's a usual time for a RC to be available to download by regular members?

[Fustrate]

Usually a week to two weeks, depending on... stuff

[niko]

Yay, finally it's officially out! Congratulates developets!

[poolhall]

Usually a week to two weeks, depending on... stuff

Thanks!