 Originally a continuation of PunBB's 1.3 branch, it was announced in January 2009 that the then-current 1.3 branch would be discontinued, and that FluxBB 1.4 would revert to being based on the 1.2 codebase.For FluxBB 1.4, several features were backported from 1.3, including UTF-8 support, a new default theme, and the ability to split and merge posts.The extension system, however, was not included.