Now why do I say April 4th? If there’s one thing I know about the phpBB teams, it’s that they have a tradition of following history’s footsteps. phpBB3 Beta1 was released on June 17, 2006, the 6th anniversary of the creation of the phpBB project. The new prosilver-enabled phpBB website was released on March 18, 2007, exactly one year after the Olympus bug tracker opened to the public.

April 4th, 2007 marks five years since phpBB 2.0.0 was released, and if you subscribe to the CVS checkins mailing list, today AcydBurn just added prosilver and subSilver2 templates to the CVS. Seems to me like they’re preparing for a big release, and the next big release in line would be RC-1, right?

I don’t have any connections inside the team and don’t know for sure and this is completely coming out of my head, but I think it is very likely. I’ll be keeping a few eyes open this Wednesday…