• Added : Link to the last topic title above the last post link on forum listing view,
• Added : Group URL rewriting, with optional group name injection,
• Added : profile URL can use nickname injection (optional),
• Added : profile URL can use nickname injection without ID (optional),
• Added : User messages URL can use nickname injection (optional),
• Added : User messages URL can use nickname injection without ID (optional),
• Added : 404 header is now returned for forums that do not exist (both rewritten and vanilla URLs),
• Updated : zero duplicate handles the new rewriting for profiles, user messages and groups,
• Fixed : Sub forum last post link from the no duplicate on forum listing view,
• Fixed : Usage of a slash as a suffix is now fully supported for all rewritten URLs,
• Fixed : Base href handling (bug with virtual root option),
• Fixed : 100% XHTML valid output,
• Updated to comply with phpBB3.0.0.

If you experience problems with the automatic update (white screens, timeouts, etc.) we recommend using the "changed files only" method for updating.

With this release, there are four packages available.

• Full Package
  Contains entire phpBB SEO premod source English and French language files.
  
• Changed Files Only
  Contains only those files changed from previous versions of phpBB3.
• Automatic Update Package
  Update package for the automatic updater, containing the changes from previous release to this release.
Select whichever package is most suitable for you.

Translations Update :

Both French and English language pack are included by default in the auto update and changed file package.
In case you are not using the french language pack at all, you can safely ignore updates of the French language files. Leaving it on your ftp and let the updater update it is of course not a problem.

The update will require some additional set up and .htaccess update. Your forum URLs will stay exactly the same, but there are new option to URL rewrite the profiles, Groups and User Messages search pages.
Once you will have set up these three new options, you'll have to generate a new .htaccess. Please read carefully the install file about the ID removing on profile pages.
If you change your member profiles URL with your new settings, you will have to keep the previous Profile rewriterule right before the new one in your .htaccess.
If you encounter some difficulties to update the phpbb_seo_class.php file, for example if you modded it, you will just have to use the new file and edit it to re enter your previous customisations (static part & delimiters).
Once you will have updated, you will have to refresh your theme's cache as well as phpBB's cache (ACP => STYLE, Themes => Refresh).

phpBB SEO Premod Downloads
phpBB SEO Premod Release thread
phpBB SEO Premod support forum

apeee wrote:1. I'll be using some other phpbb3 style, for this should I have to do many changes?

apeee wrote:2. Is this the final release or you will be adding more features, testing, bug findings etc. in this?

apeee wrote:3. Can you please check here http://phpbb3.phpbb-seo.net/member/SeO at Most active topic since it is not showing actual .html url when I hover around it but still it is taking me to the actual html url???????? Is this a bug?

apeee wrote:4. Demo phpbb3 premod index page is not validating for xhtml strict but inner pages are validating for xhtml strict.

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NOTE: profile and user messages pages ID removing:
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phpBB/member/nicknames VS phpBB/nicknames-uxx.html And phpBB/messages/nicknames VS dephpBB/nicknames-mxx.html

If you use profile and / or user messages pages ID removing, you should know that some urlencode
will be used by some browsers such as Firefox.
As well, a bug with mod_rewrite requires some custom url encoding to handle the "&" case proper in user names.
For example a user named rock&roll will require rock%2526roll (double urlencoded &) to be usable.
( http://www.php.net/urlencode => http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34602 )

There are other issues with custom characters, like accents, which will add some urlencoded chars in urls.
It's not an SEO issue, since bots knows about urlencoding, but it can end up building pretty long url with multi byte characters.
This does not concern the a-zA-Z0-9 chars, underscore ("_"), hyphen ("-") and dot (".") included.
In phpbb_seo/phpbb_seo_class.php, you can decide to use different methods :

$this->seo_opt['custom_url_endode'] = 1;

You can change the value, to 1, 2 and 3.
$this->seo_opt['custom_url_endode'] = 1, nickname is pretty much injected as is, after it is
htmlspecialchars_decoded, encoded in UTF-8 and filtered for the "&" case.
This means you will let the browser decide, FF will most likely use urlencoded chars
if your user are using more than alphanumeric chars, but IE and Opera should do the trick.

$this->seo_opt['custom_url_endode'] = 2, would mean to impose urlencoding on all links, with the double urlencoding trick on "&".
Should handle more special cases, but imposes urlencoding for all browsers.

$this->seo_opt['custom_url_endode'] = 3, double urlencode everything, most likely the safest way for desperate cases
Should handle pretty much all cases, but imposes double urlencoding for all browsers.

This of course means that the ID removing on profile and user messages pages is more comfy and universally efficient
to use with alphanumeric chars user names (without accents).
Other cases are heavier and are more meant to handle few exceptions than to do the trick with multi byte chars in general.
Here, it's mostly Firefox to limit us a bit.