I saw the following post on WP2.4 – coming in Jan.

WordPress weekly digest 26th November to 2nd December 2007

It sounds like WP2.4 will use a new hashing scheme to store the password.

Will this interefere with bbPress users who are running WordPress User integration?

[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

They are working on it now. There has been some talk in the dev list about it. Here’s the first trac ticket about it:

http://comox.textdrive.com/pipermail/bbdev/2007-December/001758.html

[@schmitt Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

Thanks… looks like it is a big deal then. No Wp2.4 upgrade until a new bbPress then.

[@trent Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

I am sure that people will report back on a TRAC version if nothing else that it will work with, but I would imagine that the WP release will come out followed closely with a bbPress release as that is what happened when the compatibility issues showed up with WP 2.3, but I guess time will tell!

Trent

[@sambauers Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

The current trunk contains the new password hashing method. We will do a simultaneous release with WordPress to avoid issues for people with integrated installs.

[@trent Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

That is what I thought! Thanks for the update Sam!

Trent

[@sambauers Participant 17 years, 1 month ago]

And in case anyone wants to keep their passwords hashed in MD5, I’ve got a plugin that’s about to go into the plugin browser that enables that (for bbPress anyway).

[@schmitt Member 17 years, 1 month ago]

You guys are awesome.