Release Highlights/3.1.0-RC1

This page highlights important changes in phpBB 3.1.0-rc1

For a complete list of changes, please refer to this report.

New Features

 * Events - More events have been added to the template and the php core
 * PHPBB_DISPLAY_LOAD_TIME - A new constant has been added to dissociate the displaying of the load time from DEBUG
 * New profile fields - New profile fields for Facebook, Google+, Skype, Twitter and Youtube have been added

Notable Changes

 * Firebird - Firebird is NO LONGER SUPPORTED as a database backend
 * No functions in front files - All functions were moved from front-facing files to function files
 * File finder - phpbb\finder (previously phpbb\extension\finder) does not depend on extension manager anymore

Notable Bug Fixes

 * Right-to-left - Several bugs related to right-to-left languages have been fixed