Phorum 10.0.0-alpha-4 available [github.com] New features RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed subscriptions — every forum, and every thread, now has a feed, alongside a site-wide "recent posts" feed. Available in three formats (.rss, .atom, .json) so readers can pick whatever their feed app supports, with an admin on/off switch and proper <link rel="alternate"> autodiscovery tags for feed readers to pick up automatically. Icons throughout the interface — the navigation bar, forum and folder listings, thread list, post actions (Reply, Edit, Delete, Follow), and announcements all now carry icons, making the UI easier to scan at a glance. A cleaner moderator toolbar — moderator actions (Review Queue, Reported Content, Close, Move, Merge, Delete) are now tucked behind a single "Moderate" dropdown instead of a wall of same-weight buttons sitting next to Reply and Follow. Admins can now pick up schema patches without a full version bump — visiting /upgrade?force=1 while logged in re-runs the upgrade/patch process on an already-installed site, for cases where a patch ships between releases. Fixes Editing a forum in the admin panel no longer silently turns a folder back into a regular forum on save. Upgrading from Phorum 6 no longer hits a MySQL syntax error partway through the schema check. A partially-applied schema patch (e.g. from an interrupted upgrade) no longer blocks every later patch from applying — already-applied changes are now detected and skipped instead of aborting the whole run. Sites upgrading from Phorum 6 now get the pm_new_count column they were missing, backfilled from existing unread private messages instead of starting everyone at zero. Polish Font sizes across the Emerald theme (and everything that builds on it) are now driven by a shared, named type scale instead of scattered one-off values — more consistent typography sitewide. Assorted sizing and spacing refinements: thread author byline, forum descriptions, announcement subject text and spacing, RSS button placement and styling. https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?64,162852,162852#msg-162852 Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:42:59 -0500 Phorum 6.0.4 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?64,162852,162852#msg-162852 https://www.phorum.org/support/read.php?64,162852,162852#msg-162852
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New features

RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed subscriptions — every forum, and every thread, now has a feed, alongside a site-wide "recent posts" feed. Available in three formats (.rss, .atom, .json) so readers can pick whatever their feed app supports, with an admin on/off switch and proper <link rel="alternate"> autodiscovery tags for feed readers to pick up automatically.
Icons throughout the interface — the navigation bar, forum and folder listings, thread list, post actions (Reply, Edit, Delete, Follow), and announcements all now carry icons, making the UI easier to scan at a glance.
A cleaner moderator toolbar — moderator actions (Review Queue, Reported Content, Close, Move, Merge, Delete) are now tucked behind a single "Moderate" dropdown instead of a wall of same-weight buttons sitting next to Reply and Follow.
Admins can now pick up schema patches without a full version bump — visiting /upgrade?force=1 while logged in re-runs the upgrade/patch process on an already-installed site, for cases where a patch ships between releases.

Fixes

Editing a forum in the admin panel no longer silently turns a folder back into a regular forum on save.
Upgrading from Phorum 6 no longer hits a MySQL syntax error partway through the schema check.
A partially-applied schema patch (e.g. from an interrupted upgrade) no longer blocks every later patch from applying — already-applied changes are now detected and skipped instead of aborting the whole run.
Sites upgrading from Phorum 6 now get the pm_new_count column they were missing, backfilled from existing unread private messages instead of starting everyone at zero.

Polish

Font sizes across the Emerald theme (and everything that builds on it) are now driven by a shared, named type scale instead of scattered one-off values — more consistent typography sitewide.
Assorted sizing and spacing refinements: thread author byline, forum descriptions, announcement subject text and spacing, RSS button placement and styling.]]> Brian Moon Announcements Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:07:16 -0500