Upgrade!
Done.
PunBB 1.3 isn't featured in the bridging options.
I did a test yesterday & the bridge doesn't work with PunBB 1.3RC or FluxBB 1.3Beta so it looks like a new bridge will probably have to be developped for punBB's 1.3 release & that of FluxBB 1.3
no matter i'm sticking with a 1.2.x release of the forum, for the time being.
I have no idea what FluxBB is, but if it differs from punBB, you probably need a bridge of it's own.
PunBB was sold by it's original owner, some of the development team have gone off on their own & continued their development of punBB & created a fork - hence FluxBB. Basically it's the same forum underneath with 2 branches of continued development, one from it's owners & another from the breakaway group of developers who have left (or been pushed) from the project.
Here's the blurb from the FluxBB website...
http://fluxbb.org/In 2007 PunBB was sold to a commercial company. Development continued under the direction of Rickard Andersson until April 2008. At that time Rickard Andersson announced he would be ceasing his active involvement with the project at least temporarily.
In light of the changed circumstances the remaining members of the development team decided they needed to exert more control over the direction of the project which meant the only option was to fork the project; hence FluxBB.
The current stable release of FluxBB 1.2.20 is an update to PunBB v1.2.17. The next version, FluxBB v1.3, is under active development and is currently at the beta2 stage.
What the future holds
The development team's immediate aim is an early release of FluxBB v1.3. Further details regarding the development of FluxBB v1.3 can be found on the development page. As a service to the existing PunBB community they will continue to provide support for PunBB v1.2.
In the longer term, the aim is to produce high quality open source forum software which continues to live up to the standards set by Rickard Andersson whilst taking full account of changing trends and technologies. In short, if you want a fast, lightweight, user friendly and extensible forum designed to meet modern standards then you are in the right place.
the good news is i'm now running FluxBB 1.2.20 (basically an updated, update of PunBB 1.2.17 as the quoted text suggests) & it still works perfectly well with Coppermine.
Not sure what you mean.
if/when an update comes alone (so that 1.3.x is bridged), how would i update the bridge so that it works on the upgraded forum as it's currently been running on 1.2.x
I suppose the same question would occur if i wanted to convert the site from running one type of forum to another such as going from phpBB to SMF,
Is it just a case of swapping the bridging options to a new forum or have i got to alter the database & patch / edit some of coppermine's php files.