Version 2.2.0

Released February 18th, 2026

After a long pause, we are back with a new release

• Update all dependencies to its latest version - including SQLAlchemy 2
• Recaptcha can now only be enabled/disabled via the admin panel.
  The secret key and site key have to be provided via the
  flaskbb.cfg and/or via the corresponding environment variables.
• ... and a lot of things to brought the update with it

The next release will have some features as well.

Full Changelog: v2.1.0...v2.2.0

Version 2.1.0

Released September 9th, 2021

The most notable changes are following:

• Reimplemented User views using services
• Services for changing email, password, settings and details
• Hooks for email, password, settings and details updates
• Hook for user profile sidebar links
• Added helper for generating dynamic navbar content
• Gender is now a text field rather than a dropdown
• Upgrade to Flask 2.0 and SQLAlchemy 1.4
• Upgrade Bootstrap 3 to Bootstrap 5
• Remove JQuery dependency by rewriting some parts to be plain JS
• Replace Bootstrap-Markdown editor with GitHub-Markdown-Toolbar
• ... and lots of other fixes and improvements

Version 2.0.0

Released on May 16th, 2018.

• Improved management panel load time by requesting celery status async (PR #429)
• Migrated FlaskBB internal behavior to use plugin hook system (PRs
  #369, #413, #419, #423, #426, #435, #436)
• Migrated behavior in flaskbb.auth from living in route handlers and into
  services (PRs #421, #424)
• Improved emoji support (PR #417)
• Migrated private messages into a
  plugin
  (PR #414)
• Fixed issue where user could not re-select having the default theme (PR #387)
• Fixed issue where a reinstall would attempt to drop the entire database
  instead of just the tables associated with FlaskBB (PR #364)
• Added ability to hide and unhide topics and posts, preventing unprivileged
  users from viewing them (PR #325)
• Fixed issue where password was not required when editing a user in the admin
  panel (PR #321)
• Migrated from Flask-Plugins to Pluggy as plugin system for plugins.
  Plugins are now loaded via entry points and thus have to be installed
  into the same environment as FlaskBB. During this migration we also moved
  the portal plugin into its own
  python package which can be installed via
  pip install flaskbb-plugin-portal. (PR #311)
• Adds the functionality to "soft delete" posts and topics. (PR #325)
• Improve logging. (PR #327)
• Prefixes migrations with a timestamp which will sort them by creation date. (PR #353)
• Transform views into Class-based Views. (PR #324)
• Drop the tables instead of dropping the database when uninstalling FlaskBB. (PR #364)
• Create the database using SQLAlchemy's db.create_all and stamp it as
  'latest' instead of going through all migrations.
• Fixes a bug that prevented users to activate their accounts via the form
  input.
• Fixes a translations bug that wouldn't take the territory code into account
  when choosing a language (#299).
• Fixes a bug which would not show all conversations in the conversations view.
• Fixes a bug that made a forum section inaccessible when the last_post_id
  of a topic was set to None.
• Various translations updated.
• Multiple permission fixes and various other fixes.

This is the first release of FlaskBB.

There are still a few rough edges here and there but overall it is running quite stable.
I hope that with this release I can accelerate the development of FlaskBB which stagnated a bit lately.

Features

It ships with following features:

• Private Messages
• Admin Interface
• Group based permissions
• Markdown Support
• Topic Tracker
• Unread Topics/Forums
• i18n Support
• Completely Themeable
• Plugin System
• Command Line Interface

Installation

The official installation guide is located here. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to open a new topic on our forums. The GitHub Issue tracker should be used for bugs and features.