A little under one year ago Joomlaboard announced it would merge with a new crew of developers and rebrand their popular forum component into Fireboard. Fireboard has dominated the category of self contained forum components ever since. Now, on it's one year anniversary they have announced a new version of Fireboard being developed to better cope with Joomla 1.5 and it's new structure.The new version will initially be built to adjust to changes to the Joomla core while still keeping backwards compatibility.

I myself hope to see more advanced features such as better permissions and thread management.

Best of Joomla is proud to announce Fireboard 1.1.0 Alpha. It is a new framework that will be the successor of previous 1.0.x releases. The new additions to this release are the J1.5 style of organization in the codes (MVC) and few bug fixes. Fireboard, as the successor of Joomlaboard, was carrying a very patchy structure and code segments and thus at some point further feature addition to the low quality model of the code was not feasible. Pleasantly, with the assistance of one of the core developers of Joomla!, we started to reshape Fireboard toward Joomla 1.5 native structure, in a way also not to break the compatibility with previous versions of Fireboard itself and also Joomla! 1.0.x version. As for the changes, the major part of effort has been done on re-coding the administration section in the new framework style; also as a proof of concept; and will eventually continue to front-end sections.