As well as fixing all known bugs, this release focuses on improving compatibility with themes and plugins — particularly when phpBB is inside WordPress. Several new features are also now available:

• Cache system for  phpbb inside the WordPress header/footer. Increases performance.
• You can set the integrated blogs as ‘private’ — users that are not logged in will be redirected to the login page.
• Redirection on login — if a user clicks on a login/out link in the blog, they are returned to the blog homepage, not the forum index.
• New template tags for phpBB username, phpBB rank title and images, forum stats, forum posts since your last visit, login box, recent forum topics, ‘most recently updated blogs’ and ‘most recent posts in blogs’.
• Widgets! Widgets for most of the above, including a user info block with login form! (widgets are automatically available after install).
• A more robust mapping tool that can also create phpBB users.
• A new options.php file that is/will be used for more obscure/advanced options to simplify the install process.

This brings us very close to a final release - barring improved permissioning and the completion of separation in user blogs. To get your copy, visit the Download Page!