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'Spoilers' are coded up and currently in test. These will be coming along in 4.1. Not font-colours on bbCode though. I don't think we will be going there for 4.1.

As for PM's, The Inbox button on the login strip does show if the current user has a message unread (the red number box beside the button). There is also a template tag that people can use (in a sidebar for example) that does the same thing but can be used outside of normal forum display pages.

The bbCode editor was a bit experimental for V4.0 and I can understand the desire for some people to extend it.

Doing so is fairly straightforward and involves 4 files. The actual editor javascript file contains the code that handles the actual editor buttons and process. There is also an 'init' file for any  text strings to ensure they can be localised. Then there are two parsers - one to convert the bbCode to HTML and one to convert HTML to bbCode (for editing of existing posts).

It is very unlikely that we will be 'officially' adding any new features to the editor in 4.1 but if any user wants to code up a new button and the necessary parser entries please do send us the code and we can consider adding it to the official release.

It is worth noting that the parser is being updated in 4.0.3 coming very soon. This change is not in the current beta 2 of 4.0.3.