Changelog

What's new.

Updates across the Forum Engine, your dashboard, our community forum, and this site — each with its own version. We host MyBB, so its release notes live with MyBB.

Forum Enginev1.5Dashboardv1.7Community forumv1.2Marketing sitev1.3

Forum Engine

v1.5
  • ImprovedStronger protection for your forum — new safeguards across our hosting platform, including automatic malware scanning of every hosted forum and a hardened network edge that filters malicious traffic before it reaches your site. See our new Security page for how we keep your forum safe.

Marketing site

v1.3
  • NewA new Security page laying out how we protect your forum — edge protection, malware scanning, isolation between customers, and encrypted backups — plus how to report a security issue.

Forum Engine

v1.4
  • NewRun your forum on PHP 8.4 — the newest PHP, selectable per forum alongside 8.1–8.3. Switch versions in place with no downtime; PHP 8.3 stays the default.

Dashboard

v1.7
  • NewReset your forum's admin password in one click from the dashboard — generate a fresh password any time you've lost it or want to rotate it.
  • ImprovedClearer MyBB update safeguards — we now spell out exactly what an update changes, ask you to confirm before turning on automatic updates, and automatically pause auto-updates on any forum with customized core files.

Marketing site

v1.2
  • NewDedicated Features, Forum Engine, Solutions and Comparison pages, so you can dig into exactly what you came to learn.
  • NewA new dropdown navigation and reorganized footer to find everything faster.

Marketing site

v1.1
  • ImprovedEvery public page is now pre-rendered, so pages paint instantly and are far easier for search engines to read.
  • NewLinks now unfurl with the right title, description and preview image when shared.

Dashboard

v1.6
  • NewA per-forum “Plan & usage” card showing live storage, memory and CPU against your plan.
  • ImprovedUsage bars update live and turn amber, then red, as you approach a limit.

Community forum

v1.2
  • NewOne-click “Continue with BuildFormStudio” sign-in on our community forum.
  • NewLeave comments on member profiles.

Dashboard

v1.5
  • NewCustom domains on the global edge — guided DNS and managed SSL (paid plans).
  • NewOne-click sign-in straight into your forum’s admin panel — no password to retype.
  • NewAn in-browser file manager, alongside SFTP.
  • NewBackups with one-click restore to a recent point.
  • NewIn-app support tickets, with replies by email.

Community forum

v1.1
  • NewReactions, badges, and a points & leaderboard system on our community forum.

Forum Engine

v1.3
  • NewChoose PHP 8.0–8.3 per forum and switch versions in place — no rebuild, no downtime.

Dashboard

v1.4
  • NewBring an existing MyBB forum in: import your files and database, and we heal the config and URLs for you.

Forum Engine

v1.0
  • NewThe Forum Engine launches — full-page caching serves guests cached HTML from memory (no PHP or database per request), with in-memory PHP (OPcache + JIT) for signed-in members.

Dashboard

v1.0
  • NewDeploy a managed MyBB forum in under a minute, with free SSL, SFTP, a web database manager and the Cloudflare edge.

Community forum

v1.0
  • NewOur community forum goes live with a custom theme matching BuildFormStudio.

Marketing site

v1.0
  • Newbuildformstudio.com launches.

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