A new minor version of phpBB 2.0 has been released. This fixes a number of issues and as an avid user of phpBB on many websites, not to mention someone who hosts many sites running the forum script, I advise everyone to apply this update for both security and functionality reasons.

You can grab the patch, code changes and full package on the phpBB download page

For those interested in the changlog, it is as follows:-

*  Prevent login attempts from incrementing for inactive users
*  Do not check maximum login attempts on re-authentication
to the admin panel - tomknight
*  Regenerate session keys on password change
*  retrieving category rows in index.php (Bug #90)
*  improved index performance by determining the permissions
before iterating through all forums (Bug #91)
*  Better handling of short usernames within the search (bug
#105)
*  Send a no-cache header on admin pages as well as normal
board pages (Bug #149)
*  Apply word censors to the message when quoting it (Bug #405)

*  Improved performance of query in admin_groups (Bug #753)
*  Workaround for an issue in either PHP or MSSQL resulting in
a space being returned instead of an empty string (bug #830)
*  Correct use of default_style config value (Bug #861)
*  Replace unneeded unset calls in admin_db_utilities.php -
vanderaj
*  Improved error handling in modcp.php
*  Improved handling of forums to which the user does not have
any explicit permissions - vanderaj
*  Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_ranks.php, now requires
confirmation of deletions
*  Assorted fixes and cleanup of admin_words.php, now requires
confirmation of deletions
*  Addition and editing of smilies can no longer be performed
via GET, now requires confirmation of deletions
*  Escape group names in admin_groups.php
*  Replace strip_tags with htmlspecialchars in private message
subject
*  Some changes to HTML handling if enabled
*  Escape any special characters in reverse dns - Anthrax101
*  Typecast poll id values - Anthrax101
*  Added configurable search flood control to reduce the effect
of DoS style attacks
*  Changed the way we create "random" values for use as keys -
chinchilla/Anthrax101
*  Enabled Visual Confirmation by default
*  Changed handling of the case where a selected style
doesn't exist in the database
*  Changed handling of topic pruning to improve performance
*  Changed default forum permissions to only allow
registered users to post in new forums