🚀 Flatboard 5.8.0 "POLARIS" — Release announcement Released: July 15, 2026 · Covers everything shipped since 5.7.2 (releases 5.7.3 → 5.8.0, codenames BEACON → POLARIS) Flatboard 5.8.0 is the biggest update of the 5.7.x cycle: per-category permissions, unread-discussion tracking, a complete overhaul…
Hello Flatboard Community! 👋 After months of intensive development, testing, and refinement, I'm thrilled to announce the official release of Flatboard v5 Final! 🚀 This release represents a major milestone in Flatboard's evolution, bringing significant improvements to performance, stability, and use…
Flatboard Community Guidelines & Rules Welcome to the Flatboard community! We’re thrilled to have you here. To ensure a positive and productive experience for everyone, please read and follow these guidelines. 1. Getting Support Support is available for users who help test Flatboard and report i…
Release date: June 6, 2026 Extensibility New upload.image.saved hook — post-process uploaded images from a plugin — Image uploads had no extension point: a plugin could not compress, strip or convert an image as it was saved. UploadService now fires upload.image.saved right after an image is written…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.6.0 "BASTION" Release date: May 17, 2026 Security SQL injection: SqliteStorage::count() — table and column names not validated — The $table parameter and condition keys were interpolated directly into the SQL query without any validation. $table is now checked against an ex…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.5.1 "AEGIS" Release date: April 18, 2026 Fixed Core — Login redirect broken in subdirectory installs — After login (including 2FA), the redirect target stored in redirect_after_login is a base-path-stripped URL (as set by AuthMiddleware). LoginController now wraps it with U…
Creating a forum used to mean setting up a server, configuring MySQL, running a database installer, and spending an afternoon getting everything to talk to each other. In 2026, that is no longer the only option — and for most use cases, it is not even the best one. This guide shows you the simplest…
🚀 Changelog — Flatboard 5.3.0 — Lighthouse Release date: March 19, 2026 Highlights FlatHome joins Flatboard Pro — FlatHome replaces EasyPages in the Pro plugin pack. It is a full CMS, homepage, and blog system that transforms any Flatboard forum into a complete web platform. EasyPages users can migr…
We’ve simplified the resource manager to make support management more efficient for both users and moderators. Now, when you upload a resource and haven’t added a support link, the process is fully automated once your resource is approved: Approval by Moderator: Once your resource is reviewed and ap…
Until now, Flatboard offered three display modes: light, dark, or system. Handy, but not exactly exciting. From now on, you can pick from several full interface themes — not just a background color, but a completely different visual style. Head to: Profile > Preferences > Interface Theme. 🖥️ A…
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