CoreBB Stable Pre-Release v1.4.0
CoreBB v1.4.0 is a major modernization release focused on presentation, maintainability, administration, and cleanup. The public forum has been migrated toward a Twig-backed template system, the admin panel has been rebuilt into a cleaner modern control center, and a large amount of retired legacy code and database surface has been removed.

Highlights

• Migrated the public forum presentation layer toward Twig templates.
  
• Modernized the admin panel with cleaner navigation, dark mode, dashboard counters, action summaries, and improved tool layouts.
  
• Added private database backup support from Database Tools.
  
• Improved admin permissions, including more precise special-access tool grants.
  
• Cleaned up deprecated public features, retired routes, unused tables, and legacy file sprawl.
  
• Moved Terms of Service storage into system settings.
  
• Improved documentation and comments across the admin function layer.
  

Public Forum Changes

• Moved more public pages, partials, and workflows into Twig-backed templates.
  
• Improved separation between forum data processing and display markup.
  
• Consolidated blog actions into blogs.php.
  
• Consolidated private-message actions into private_messages.php.
  
• Removed obsolete public routes and retired feature remnants.
  
• Blocked direct web access to Twig template source files.
  

Admin Panel Changes

• Rebuilt the admin panel around a cleaner dark-first interface.
  
• Modernized board management, private board access, user tools, moderation tools, icon management, and database tools.
  
• Added recent admin action summaries and clearer dashboard counters.
  
• Added private SQL database backup creation under Database Tools.
  
• Made the admin panel default to dark mode independently from the public forum theme preference.
  
• Updated the admin header to include the forum name.
  

Security And Cleanup

• Hardened admin special-access permissions so tool access does not grant unrelated actions.
  
• Reviewed CSRF coverage across migrated public and admin forms.
  
• Kept database backups outside public routes with no admin download links.
  
• Removed unused/deprecated tables including old TOS/static/privateboards-era leftovers.
  
• Removed broad legacy compatibility redirects for retired routes.
  

 

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