Release Highlights/3.2.0-a1

This page highlights important changes in phpBB 3.2.0-a1

New Features

 * New installer - A new installer has been developed and can be used from a navigator and the CLI. PHPBB3-13740
 * Emojii - The emojii characters are now allowed in posts PHPBB3-12745
 * Global announcement - A new permission has been introduced to not require any admin right anymore PHPBB3-8708

Notable Changes

 * Remove subsilver2 - subsilver2 has been removed and is not updated anymore PHPBB3-12958
 * PHP 5.4 - The PHP requirements has been bumped to 5.4
 * PHP7 compatibility - The alpha version is almost 100% compatible with PHP7
 * Performances overall - The global performances of phpBB have been improved
 * Prosilver - Global prosilver improvements
 * Move FAQ to controller - The FAQ (and the related pages) is now accessed by the routing system as for the extensions pages PHPBB3-13647
 * BBcode - Some BBcode such as "quote" have been improved and supports new options and features PHPBB3-13847 PHPBB3-13680
 * reCAPTCHA - The google reCAPTCHA integration has been updated to use the latest version of their API PHPBB3-13789

Notable Bug Fixes

 * Notifications - The notifications settings are now completely respected PHPBB3-11967
 * BBcode - The majority of bbcode related bugs have been fixed
 * Twig - Twig loops ({% for row in loop %}) can now be used to replace phpBB blocks (&lt;!-- BEGIN loop --&gt;) PHPBB3-13132
 * Using twig's JS escape filter - The template system is now using twig's own javascript escape method instead of addslashes. PHPBB3-10388

Notable Backend Changes

 * Symfony 2.8 - Symfony has been updated to its 2.8 version PHPBB3-13407
 * Environment System - An environment system has been developed, it gives the ability to have different services and routes PHPBB3-12620
 * Decoupled routing services - The routing services has been decoupled to give more power to extensions PHPBB3-14220
 * Decoupled Twig - The Twig services has been decoupled and are now available in the DI container to give more power to extensions PHPBB3-11649
 * BBcode System - The old BBcode system has been replaced by s9e\TextFormatter. It fixes a lot of BBcode related bugs PHPBB3-11649
 * Language service - The language string handling have been decoupled from the user and extracting to its own class
 * Notifications - The notifications manager has been completely decoupled from the notification methods and types
 * Attachments - The attachments management has been refactored in a simple and extensible service PHPBB3-13904
 * SQL WHERE builder - The SQL builder has been improved in order to also build the WHERE expression. This way extensions can easily edit the expression. PHPBB3-13652