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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.
- 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)
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- 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