General Information
Basic general information about the forums: creator/company, license/price etc.
| Creator | Latest release date | Current stable version | License | Automatic Updates (for security) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beehive Forum | Project Beehive Forum Developers | 2012-04-16 | 1.2.0 | GPL | manually |
| bbPress | Automattic | 2012-08-01 | 2.1.2 | GPL | Yes |
| Discuz! | Comsenz Technology Co., Ltd. | 2012-05-18 | X2.5 | Discuz! EULA (proprietary, gratis for non-commercial use) | manually |
| PHPWind | Hangzhou Detian Information Technology Co. Ltd | 2011-11-11 | 8.7 | PHPWind EULA (proprietary, gratis for non-commercial use) | manually |
| e107 | e107 (CMS) | 2012-03-30 | 1.0.1 | GPL | manually |
| FluxBB | FluxBB.org Developers | 2013-01-10 | 1.5.2 | GPL | manually |
| FUDforum | Ilia Alshanetsky and community | 2012-07-15 | 3.0.4 | GPL | manually |
| IceBB | XAOS Interactive | 2010-12-02 | 1.0 | GPL | manually |
| Invision Power Board | Invision Power Services Inc. | 2013-01-23 | 3.4.2 | Proprietary | manually |
| LayerBulletin | LayerBulletin Project Community | 2012-03-28 | 1.1.5 | Artistic License 2.0 | manually |
| MercuryBoard | Jason Warner, Mark Elliot, and Jonathan West | 2008-02-24 | 1.1.7 | GPL | manually |
| miniBB | Paul Puzyrev & Sergei Larionov | 2010-10-05 | 2.5a | GPL | manually |
| MyBB | MyBB Group | 2012-12-14 | 1.6.9 | LGPL | manually |
| NextBBS | Chris FR & Team | 2008-02-18 | 0.5.3 | GPL | manually |
| NinkoBB | Nijikokun | 2010-03-16 | 1.3 RC5 | GPL | manually |
| OvBB | Jonathon Freeman & Brian Otto | 2007-04-06 | V0.16a | MIT | manually |
| Phorum | Brian Moon | 2011-09-09 | 5.2.18 | Phorum License 2 (BSD like) | manually |
| phpBB | phpBB Ltd. | 2012-08-25 | 3.0.11 | GPL | manually |
| PunBB | Rickard Andersson | 2011-12-01 | 1.4.1 | GPL | manually |
| Quicksilver Forums | Geoff Dunn, Roger Libiez (Samson) & The Quicksilver Forums Development Team | 2011-01-16 | 1.5 | GPL | manually |
| Simple Machines 1 | Simple Machines | 2013-02-01 | 1.1.18 | Proprietary | manually |
| Simple Machines 2 | Simple Machines | 2013-02-01 | 2.0.4 | BSD License | manually |
| Simply AJAX Forum System (SAFS) | Fast Track Sites | 2010-05-20 | 3.10.05.20 | Proprietary | manually |
| Tritanium Bulletin Board | Tritanium Scripts | 2012-12-27 | 1.6.2 | CC 3.0 by-nc-sa | manually |
| UBB.threads | Mindraven, Inc. | 2012-12-12 | 7.5.7 | Proprietary | manually |
| SonicBB | iScripts | 2010-05-18 | 1.0 | Gratis/Proprietary | manually |
| UseBB | Dietrich Moerman | 2012-05-03 | 1.0.15 | GPL | manually |
| Vanilla | Vanilla Forums Inc. | 2012-03-26 | 2.0.18.4 | GPL | manually |
| vBulletin | vBulletin Solutions Inc. | 2012-05-22 | 4.2.0 | Proprietary | manually |
| WhiteBoard | Eli White & SaroSoftware | 2010-05-30 | 0.1.30 | GPL | manually |
| Woltlab Burning Board | WoltLab GmbH | 2011-08-26 | 3.1.6 | proprietary | manually |
| XenForo | XenForo Ltd. | 2012-06-20 | 1.1.3 | Proprietary | manually |
| XMB | XMB Software | 2009-03-01 | 1.9.11 | GPL | manually |
| Launch.Forum | ViralAge Inc | ? | 1.0 Alpha | Proprietary | Yes |
| NitPick2011 | ? | 2011-09-18 | 1.0 | ? | manually |
| Creator | Latest release date | Current stable version | License | Automatic Updates (for security) |
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