[UseBB-Announce] UseBB 1.0.13 released

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The UseBB Project releases UseBB 1.0.13, a general improvement and
maintenance release for the UseBB 1 light PHP 4 and MySQL forum
package.

* Changes since 1.0.12

  - Anti-spam measures, including:
     * Potential spammer statuses
     * Stop Forum Spam API integration
     * Mass cleaning up profile spam accounts in ACP
  - Persistent database connections
  - Email form or custom URL usage for "Contact admin"
  - Searching users by email address in ACP

More changes and bug fixes were made. See the Changelog for a complete list.

* Anti-spam measures

The rise of spam attacks have made us adding more measures against
forum spam. Most notably are the introduction of the potential spammer
status and the integration of Stop Forum Spam for checking and
submitting spammer data.

For more information on anti-spam measures, please read the new
document "Spam Protection" (docs/anti-spam.html). It contains some
recommended settings for public forums.

* Upgrading

UseBB 1.0.13 can be considered a mature and stable version of UseBB 1,
suitable for all websites. However, numerous forums are still using an
older 1.0.x version, or even a beta 0.x one. Keeping into account all
the issues and bugs fixed over time, we encourage all of these
websites to upgrade to 1.0.13 as soon as possible.

Any version equal or less than 1.0.12 is now out of official support.
Visit http://www.usebb.net/downloads/ for downloads. Information about
upgrading is available in the docs/index.html document.

UseBB Project
http://www.usebb.net