Long live miniBB! It's been about 2 years since the latest stable release came to this world, and now I'm happy to announce, that miniBB project is still being supported with new featured and updates. This time, the major changes include:

— Migration to SVG icons (incl. miniBB logo) — in the ascetic graphic terms, miniBB will go scalable, and at this stage I've worked out the most common parts of icons, which are included in default miniBB layout and most of add-ons. This affect the new BB-buttons (now they are possible to customize via CSS, that means you could change their background color, borders and size) and forum-wise icons. Some of updated add-ons will also include the new vector-base icons, the news release about it will come soon.

— «Dark mode» implementation, and introduction to the set of CSS variables — for those who prefers the dark mode in their browser, after switching it on the miniBB forum should immediately adopt to it with no reload; this also should work in the Mobile layout. CSS variables suppose more easier implementation of customized CSS, and are planned for the miniBB dynamic skin maker kept for further development.

— Functionality: Login form on top of each page — a long-awaited and most requested feature up to date, which allows to login from any section of the forum, and staying in this section after being logged in. Various login displaying options are implemented — locate the new setting named $signInEachPage, which is descibed in the updated miniBB Manual.

— Functionality: Important update of Watched topics — if an author's post from this topic (A) moved to another topic (B), then (B) could be optionally added to the Watch list of this member.

— Canonical URLs implementation — trying to be even more Google-SEO oriented, miniBB core version by default will include canonical URLs for indexed pages. This feature will be also gradually added to some add-ons at later time.

— Various minor bugfixes and improvements also provided in this release.

Find out the new miniBB package and get it for free in Downloads, make sure you backup your forum's files and database before proceeding to upgrade, and follow all files to replace or modify in the Updates history, scrolling to the bottom of the file (it's headed Changes comparision: 3.6.1 — 3.7 — zipped version is available, too).

Welcome to test the updated version via the Compiler or miniBB demo, which have been updated, too.

Feel free to post any comments or found bugs in this thread.

Have great holidays everyone! 😎