Differences between SMF 2.0 and SMF 1.1 From Online Manual

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New Features and Major Changes

Core Features

  • Core Features can now be enabled/disabled from a common page.
  • Advanced profile
  • Post moderation
  • Moderation logs
  • Paid Subscriptions
  • Warning System
  • Search Engine Tracking

Theme Management

  • You can now edit every template file on any theme including the defaul. (SMF 1.1 only allowed you to edit non-default themes files)

Permission System Changes

  • Permission system is now based on profiles.

Personal Message rules

  • Rules can be created to automatically sort incoming personal messages

Package manager

  • Package manager tries to apply changes to non-default themes too.
  • Emulate version for mod install/uninstall.

The New Default Theme "Curve"

Packaged since RC3 of the 2.0 series, is a new default theme called Curve. The original default theme, called Core, is still included with SMF 2.0.

Code related changes

  • support for PostgreSQL and SQLite
  • Integration Hooks
  • Better separation of theme and code (e.g. menu "definition" is now in Source.php so that is no more necessary to change each theme one by one to add or remove a menu entry)
  • $smcFunc
  • See also: Mod authors: Changes in SMF 2.0

Unsorted

  • Scheduled tasks
  • OpenID
  • Mail queue
  • Languages installer
  • Verification questions
  • A default caching
  • Load balancing
  • ability to turn on/off signatures in admin panel
  • moderation center
  • birthday emails
  • additional attachments folders
  • edit meta description from admin panel
  • password strength
  • change forum width from the admin panel
  • WYSIWYG editor
  • install packages from a URL
  • three more group types: Protected, Requestable and Free
  • Reattribute User Posts
  • Remove Inactive Members
  • (maintenance) move all topics from a board to another
  • Buddy/Ignore lists (and related notification settings)
  • Personal messages rules
  • Display Personal messages all at once, one at a time and as a conversation


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