Hi
I’m trying to convert a large PHPBB forum to bbpress using the built-in importer. It fails and I’ve been investigating why and looking for a solution. I keep coming up against “it will be fixed in 2.6” but I can’t see any eta for the next version being rolled out. Any update available?

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

I think it will release when it is finished, so there isn’t exactly an ETA.

Most of the performance tickets/performance improvements headed into bbPress are definitely holding back the release date, and I always see the devs find new areas to improve performance drastically too and that pushes it back even more.

[@hdcms Participant 9 years, 2 months ago]

Hi,
Version 2.6 was to come out before summer 2014 (from memory)!!!
that includes version 2.6 ?
No significant update in the meantime?
A communication to the community would be interesting
regards

[@robkk Moderator 9 years, 2 months ago]

@hdcms

Yeah the release of 2.6 has been pushed back a couple times because of new bugs found, and further performance enhancements discovered.

Its a good and bad thing. Better software for you, but it might take awhile before it is released.

Anything that you might think should be released earlier(like a bug fix) in bbPress could released in a 2.5.9 security release.

The phpbb thing has to be in the 2.6 though, since it requires some major changes.