Released on May 15th, 2016.

This is a stable release and is recommended for all users.

This release includes fixes for bugs that have been reported on version 6.6.8 as well as a few small improvements.

Also available on GitHub.

Installation

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Do it yourself!

Our easy Installation Guide will provide step by step instructions to get you started with b2evolution.

Upgrade

If you're running version 5.1.0 or later, feel free to use the Auto-Upgrade Procedure for a quick and automated upgrade.

In any case, all the upgrade options are outlined here: Upgrading an existing installation.

IMPORTANT:

• If you have been using previous v6 beta versions, you should delete the boostrap_* skin folders before installing this version. Otherwise you will have old files interfering with the new ones.
• Many root files are no longer needed in this version and should ideally be deleted from your web server.
• You should use the provided tool to convert your database to UTF-8. Please check Upgrade to b2evolution version 6.x for instructions.

Changes

In addition to features of version 6.6.8-stable:

• Better display of dates and user names in the Bootstrap Forums skin.
• GeoIP.dat can be auto-update if just this one file has write permissions (instead of a whole directory)
• Better compatibility with PHP version 5.2 (especially in the upgrade script). (Note: for PHP 7 compatibility, please use b2evo v 6.7+)
• Suppressed some annoying warnings on some hosts that have PHP ini_set() disabled.
• Fixed block caching for Item specific widgets.
• User interface polishing (read: we fixed some dirty CSS ;)
• Stability improvements (read: we fixed some bugs that should have fixed a long time ago already ;)