Simple Machines Forum

The SMF project recently had its annual elections for the PM position.After many years in the position (albeit with a short break) I have stepped down as Project Manager of the Simple Machines Forum project. I will continue to be involved with the pro...

Please do not use this topic for support requests. You will receive a much quicker and better response by posting in the 2.0.x Support Board or the [iurl=h...

Dear Users,Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of the 2nd beta of SMF 2.1. This version contains many improvements over Beta 1 and also fixes many bugs that were discovered following its release. Among the notable improvements:...

Dear Members,Simple Machines Forum has released a new patch to both the 1.1.x and 2.0.x line, bringing our latest release versions to 1.1.21/2.0.10This patch is a bug fix release, which focuses on solving the problems that our members reported since...

Hello all.Over the last few weeks a big "buzz" has been spreading in SMF's forum and throughout the internet about a new "mobility-friendliness" check that Google has put in place. Based on the preliminary reports that Google has sent to some webmaste...

Dear users,Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of our next major milestone for SMF, SMF 2.1! A lot of work has gone into 2.1 over the past 3 years, and with over 5500 commits by numerous developers, we have a whole set of exciting new fea...

Dear users,Simple Machines Forum has released security patches to both the 1.1.x and the 2.0.x release lines. This brings our released versions to SMF 1.1.20 and SMF 2.0.9.Several security issues were identified in both release lines and have been ad...

Dear Members,Simple Machines Forum has released a new patch to the 2.0.x line, bringing our latest release version to 2.0.8.This patch focuses on fixing a few memory issues caused by some of the changes in 2.0.7, as well as fixing a crucial bug which...

As everyone has no doubt heard by now, over the weekend of May 24/25, the Avast forum site was hacked.There was much supposition, a fair amount of guessing and several accusations that the forum software which Avast was running (Simple Machines Forum)...

(UPDATED the post and locked the thread, pending analysis of the data) As you may have heard, several days ago, Avast, a company known for its popular antivirus and related security software, had its forum site hacked. Avast was using SMF as their fo...