Well folks, it has been over a year since our last major release and we are really excited about this new version of bblocked. To most of you this is a very exciting and long waited day, for others (who have been keeping up-to-date with the alpha version of 5.6) this may be slightly less anticipated. But whoever you are, we are very proud to announce the official release of bblocked 5.6!

This new version comes along with our wonderful new site, which now has a support forum. We know that many of you have had hundreds of questions about when the new release was coming out, how to setup bblocked, or just like to express your gratitude (doesn’t happen enough). And now you can!

OK, enough publicizing, lets get down to business!

First off, we want to inform you that though version 5.5 beta was able to compete with other PHP-based proxy scripts we decided to completely recode the project from top to bottom. Starting with our user configurations page. Administrators now have access to a variety of runtime configurations in a single file, and admins aren’t the only ones reaping the benefits of more options. bblocked 5.6 now supports user configurations–which are controlled by the administrator–to allow the user access to as many or as few options as the administrator feels necessary.

Six all new themes, and a better template engine than ever before. bblocked 5.6 gives way for admins to select a theme that suits their taste, or easily make their own. Our new template engine supports PHP tags inside the template files, as well as the standard HTML tags and client-side languages. Each configuration setting can be used as an HTML tag that will be converted to its value. If you don’t understand it right away… don’t worry, we will soon post a guide to creating templates.

Faster page responses, more compatible and optimized coding choices in the scripts, and compressed output options, all help make bblocked the fastest, most efficient PHP proxy bypasser on the web. Then we took it a step further by adding global cache support. This is not quite the same as using HTTP 304 responses (however we do that too ). If enabled bblocked will save a copy of every page that was accessed–without authentication, or user cookies–and serve it up to future request, checking for updates upon new page requests.

With so many new and innovative features I could write several more pages, but I shall let you see and enjoy for yourself.

Happy surfing!

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