The forum was down this evening to enable a new version of the forum software to be installed.

The forum has to be taken down to prevent people posting whilst the updates are installed which takes quite some time as the database has to be modified locally, rather than on the server.

There are too many updates to list, many bug-fixes and many security updates.

The main things that people will notice are:

- Registration now uses Captcha. The images can be hard to see so there is the option for the system to create a sound file that reads the images out to you as well.

- If you edit a post, there is now a "reason for edit" field which keeps things neat and tidy.

- Googlebots/etc that are spidering the forum are now shown seperately to other guests.