Olympus!

For those savvy in the areas of Internet forum technology, phpBB is probably no stranger to you. For the rest, phpBB is a free, open-source forum software that is my personal favorite to use. It is flexible and boasts many features, yet has no price attached, while many rivals, such as vBulletin, require a great deal of money in order to purchase a "license." On the other hand, vBulletin, among others, have more features than phpBB. Thankfully, there are clever "hackers" that allow bits of code to add new features to phpBB, bringing it more or less on par with its rivals, if not beyond.

But I digress. The point is, as of today, the long-awaited phpBB 3 "Olympus" has been released. This means advanced features and security are now fully-supported and ready to be modified by the users, as opposed to the prior release candidates, which would change so often that one didn't really have a chance to play with the code.

I applaud phpBB's hard-working build team and look forward to more innovations from them.