MyBB
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A screenshot of a default MyBB installation
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| Original author(s) | Chris Boulton |
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| Developer(s) | MyBB Group |
| Initial release | 2002 |
| Stable release |
1.8.10 (January 10, 2017)
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| Repository | github |
| Development status | Active |
| Written in | PHP / MySQL (PostgreSQL and SQLite are also supported) |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Size | 2.20 MB zipped; 13.93 installed |
| Available in | Multilingual – Official support is given in English, but language packs are available for German, Spanish, Vietnamese, Portuguese, and many others |
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Forum software Mailing list management software |
| License | LGPL |
| Website | mybb |
MyBB, formerly MyBBoard and originally MyBulletinBoard, is a free and open source forum software developed by the MyBB Group. It is written in PHP, supports MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite as database systems and, in addition, has database failover support. It is available in multiple languages and is licensed under the LGPL.
Founded as DevBB in 2002 by Chris Boulton from a fork of XMB, the first public release (RC1) of MyBB was published on 10 December 2003. It wasn't until 2 years later, on 9 December 2005, that MyBB 1.0 was released.
On 9 March 2006, version 1.1 was released. The last version of this series was 1.1.8, a security update released on 20 August 2006.
On 2 September 2006, with a revised and rewritten code base and over 40 new features, MyBB 1.2 was released. Support for the 1.2 series officially ended on 1 June 2009, although security updates were available until 31 December 2009.
The final version of the 1.2 series, 1.2.14, was a security and maintenance update published on 17 July 2008. Several security patches were available in consequent security updates for users still using the 1.2 series.
After a long beta phase MyBB 1.4 was released on 2 August 2008 complete with over 70 new features, including a completely revised and redesigned Administration Control Panel (ACP).
On 12 October 2008, MyBB 1.4.2 was released. This version changed MyBB's license from proprietary to GNU GPL v3. The change in license was driven from a request from KDE who, in a related announcement, launched their first web-based community using MyBB as an alternative to a mailinglist.
On 2 May 2009, due to time constraints, founder Chris Boulton left the day-to-day responsibilities to Dennis Tsang (previously the Support Team Manager) who took over as Product Manager of MyBB. Matt Rogowski would later take over Dennis' responsibilities as Support Team Manager.
So far, much of MyBB's development happened internally on a closed cycle. After switching to an open source license, on 19 August 2009, the MyBB Group opened development access so that users had access to the official bugtracker and read access to the subversion repository.
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