phpBB2
phpBB2 was the predecessor of the present-day phpBB3. Developed during 2001-2002, the source code was written primarily to run on PHP 3.0 and 4.0 (version 2.0.13 upped the minimum requirement to PHP 4.0.3 due to a necessary security fix), and by the time that phpBB3 was released in late 2007, the developers and other team members felt that it no longer met their quality coding standards, and announced plans for the retirement/end of support of 2.0.x within a few months of 3.0.0′s release. phpBB2 was never officially supported under PHP 5. Although many users had no problems running it after making a few changes to PHP 5′s default configuration settings, the teams chose not to offer support for this configuration.
New Security Updates for Drupal Web CMS
Drupal is at it again with another round of updated releases. While not major releases, these new versions from Drupal do address a number of security fixes and bugs that were brought to their attention via Drupal’s bug tracking system.
Drupal has announced that there will be no new features added to 6.x or 5.x. They are holding the feature updates and implementation of new features until they are ready to release Drupal 7.x in the near future.
WordPress shuts door on new PHP attack vector
WordPress
According to an advisory from maintainers of the open-source blog software, WordPress 2.6.2 was released on September 8 to mitigate a new attack vector discovered by PHP security guru Stefan Esser.