Simple Machines is proud to announce the release of SMF 2.1.5! This update contains improvements, bugfixes and security fixes. For the list of changes and info on how to update, please refer to our site: simplemachines.org/community… Thank you and we hope that you enjoy the update!

Simple Machines is very pleased to announce that the SMF team has launched development of SMF 3.0! You can read all about it in this Developer Blog: simplemachines.org/community… Thank you!

We’re happy and proud to announce the release of SMF 2.1.3, the latest patch to our 2.1.x line! This update contains an enormous amount of enhancements and some bugfixes. For more information and instructions on how to update, please see: simplemachines.org/community… Thank you! :)

We’re currently experiencing technical difficulties with our rather complex machines in the datacenter. This is causing downtime for our website and community. User sites are not affected. We’re looking in to resolving the hardware issues ASAP and apologise for any inconvenience.

We’re happy to have released an update to our 2.1.x line, bringing the version to SMF 2.1.2! Check it out: simplemachines.org/community…

Simple Machines is very happy to announce the stable release of our new productline: SMF 2.1! It comes with a large set of improvements and new (security) features. :) Come have a look! simplemachines.org/community… We’d like to thank our team and everyone who has contributed to it! =)

We’re proud to announce the release of SMF 2.0.19, the latest patch to our 2.0.x line! It is available for download now, please see bit.ly/32mAij5 for more information. :)

We’re pleased to announce the release of SMF 2.1 RC4! :) It features an impressive list of improvements. We’d like to thank the team and community contributors for the significant amount of work they’ve put in to this release! For more info, please see: bit.ly/3yKNnxG

Yup, it can. To mods it’d show up as any other post, but highlighted in red. (Pending approval). You can choose if it’s moderated per topic, per post, only for certain member groups; etc. Pending posts also shows up in the Moderation Center. See our online manual for more info.

Hi! Due to scheduled maintenance, our website will (intermittently) be offline tomorrow (March 11th) evening between 10PM and 6AM (EST). Our community will be unavailable during this maintenance. This has no effect on your own SMF install(s). :) Thank you for your understanding!

We’re pleased to announce the release of SMF 2.0.17! :) This update contains, among other things, security patches, bugfixes and GDPR-support. As always, we strongly recommend updating asap. Read our release announcement here: bit.ly/37NgHWI

We wish everyone happy holidays and a healthy 2020! =)

No worries! :) We don’t shoot the messenger. ;)

Looking at the growing number of parties responding that the article contains inaccurate information, maybe @campuscodi (the author of the article) from @ZDNet is willing to shed some light on this? :)

We have a similar legacy feature to allow very old users to login to change their password (which is then stored with the new hashing method). Maybe the researchers just ran a grep for “md5” in the codebase and drew their conclusions? Heh.

Yes, we sent them a note yesterday.

The table in the source article claims SMF 2.0 uses md5, that’s not true. Btw, SMF 2.1 uses bcrypt.