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	In 2007 the project's code and rights were sold to Informer Technologies, Inc. The company did not institute any major changes at first other than removing the ability to donate money to the project. The work on version 1.3 continued, and in the beginning of 2008 the beta version was released. In April 2008, Rickard Andersson decided to leave the project due to personal reasons.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://rickardandersson.com/about \|title=About - Rickard Andersson \|author=Andersson, Rickard \|publisher=Rickard Andersson \|accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref> As a result, some developers followed suit, and initiated the development of their own fork, known as FluxBB. A few days later the company moved the project from the punbb.org domain to its project's umbrella domain at punbb.informer.com.		In 2007 the project's code and rights were sold to Informer Technologies, Inc. The company did not institute any major changes at first other than removing the ability to donate money to the project. The work on version 1.3 continued, and in the beginning of 2008 the beta version was released. In April 2008, Rickard Andersson decided to leave the project due to personal reasons.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://rickardandersson.com/about \|title=About - Rickard Andersson \|author=Andersson, Rickard \|publisher=Rickard Andersson \|accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref> As a result, some developers followed suit, and initiated the development of their own fork, known as FluxBB. A few days later the company moved the project from the punbb.org domain to its project's umbrella domain at punbb.informer.com.

	The work on version 1.3 was resumed and minor changes, as well as some bug fixes were introduced in updates. In March 2011 the company released version 1.3.5, and in September 2011 version 1.3.6 became available to public. The third quarter of 2011 gave birth to a significantly revised version of the engine, 1.4.0.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/24577/punbb-14/ \|title=PunBB 1.4 \|publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc \|date=7 November 2011 \|accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref>		The work on version 1.3 was resumed and minor changes, as well as some bug fixes were introduced in updates. In March 2011 the company released version 1.3.5, and in September 2011 version 1.3.6 became available to public. The third quarter of 2011 gave birth to a significantly revised version of the engine, 1.4.0.<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/24577/punbb-14/ \|title=PunBB 1.4 \|publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc \|date=7 November 2011 \|accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref>

			On June 15, 2015 — after a long hiatus from version 1.4.2, released in January 2012 — an update to version 1.4.3 arrived, making the default theme responsive and adding many bug fixes.<ref name="PBB143">{{cite web \|url=http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/29469/punbb-143/ \|title=PunBB 1.4.3 \|author=Slavok \|publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc \|date=15 June 2015 \|accessdate=02 September 2015}}</ref>

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{{Infobox software
| name = PunBB
| title = PunBB
| logo = [[Image:Punbb logo.png|200px]]
| screenshot = 
| caption =
| collapsible =
| author =
| developer = PunBB Team
| released = {{Start date|2003|08|07}}<ref name="PunBB1.0">{{cite web |url=http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/5407/punbb-10/ |title=PunBB 1.0 |author=Andersson, Rickard |publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc |date=7 August 2003 |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref>
| discontinued =
| frequently updated = yes
| programming language = PHP
| operating system = Cross-platform
| platform =
| size =
| language =
| status =
| genre = Discussion forum software
| license = GNU General Public License
| website = [http://punbb.informer.com/ punbb.informer.com]
}}

'''PunBB''' is a free lightweight open-source Internet discussion board application. The project's primary goal is to be a faster, smaller and less graphic alternative to discussion boards such as [[phpBB]], Invision Power Board, or vBulletin.<ref name="Ohloh-Analysis">{{cite web |url=http://www.ohloh.net/p/punbb |title=PunBB |publisher=Ohloh |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="CEOWorld1">{{cite web |url=http://ceoworld.biz/ceo/2009/12/03/top-best-free-open-source-forum-application-software |title=Top Best free open source forum application Software |author=Clarke, Hendrik L |publisher=CEOWORLD |date-3 December 2009 |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref><ref name="About PunBB">{{cite web |url=http://punbb.informer.com/about.php |title=About PunBB |publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref> PunBB was originally designed to output standard XHTML and do it with speed and simplicity in mind. Features such as private messaging, polls, and file attachments were not originally implemented; however, they have since been released as third-party modifications. PunBB has supported extensions since version 1.3.<ref name="History of PunBB project">{{cite web |url=http://punbb.informer.com/wiki/project_history |title=Project History - PunBB |publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc |date=29 September 2008 |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref>

==Product history==

PunBB was founded by Rickard Andersson as a personal project to create an alternative to either over-featured or too-graphic discussion boards. PunBB was originally known simply as '''Pun''' because "a pun is a play on words and that's basically what happens on a bulletin board."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16370 |title=Interview with Rickard Andersson |author=Howard |publisher=The Admin Zone |date=23 November 2005 |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref> The ''BB'' addition stands for ''bulletin board''.

On August 7, 2003, version 1.0 was released under the GNU General Public License. The developers released version 1.2 in January 2005 and immediately began work on version 1.3.<ref name="History of PunBB project" />

In 2007 the project's code and rights were sold to Informer Technologies, Inc. The company did not institute any major changes at first other than removing the ability to donate money to the project. The work on version 1.3 continued, and in the beginning of 2008 the beta version was released. In April 2008, Rickard Andersson decided to leave the project due to personal reasons.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rickardandersson.com/about |title=About - Rickard Andersson |author=Andersson, Rickard |publisher=Rickard Andersson |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref> As a result, some developers followed suit, and initiated the development of their own fork, known as FluxBB. A few days later the company moved the project from the punbb.org domain to its project's umbrella domain at punbb.informer.com.

The work on version 1.3 was resumed and minor changes, as well as some bug fixes were introduced in updates. In March 2011 the company released version 1.3.5, and in September 2011 version 1.3.6 became available to public. The third quarter of 2011 gave birth to a significantly revised version of the engine, 1.4.0.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://punbb.informer.com/forums/topic/24577/punbb-14/ |title=PunBB 1.4 |publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc |date=7 November 2011 |accessdate=5 April 2012}}</ref>

==Features==

PunBB is intentionally light on features when compared to other forum software, all in the name of keeping it fast and simple. A review of its features can be found on [http://www.forummatrix.org/show/punBB ForumMatrix].

==Hardware/software requirements==

MediaWiki requires the following:

PunBB is written in PHP and thus requires a PHP processor. PunBB also requires a database in which all forum data is stored. It supports [[MySQL]], [[PostgreSQL]], and SQLite.

==Videos, screenshots, and other media==

Screenshots for phpBB can be found on [http://ostatic.com/punbb/screenshot/1 OStatic].

Video tutorials for PunBB can found on the [http://punbb.informer.com/docs/video_tutorials/ PunBB site].

A demo of PunBB can be utilized [http://punbb.informer.com/demo/punbb13/ here].

==Entities using PunBB==

A small list of PunBB users exists [http://punbb.informer.com/wiki/who_uses_punbb here].

==Further reading==

* {{cite web |url=http://punbb.informer.com/wiki/start |title=Documentation for PunBB |publisher=Informer Technologies, Inc}}

==External links==

* [https://github.com/punbb/punbb PunBB] on GitHub
* [http://www.forummatrix.org/show/punBB PunBB] at ForumMatrix

==References==
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