From the support site....
http://forum.freeforums.org/viewtopic.p ... 133#269133
Over the past few hours we attempted to install some upgrades on the v2 system. Although initial testing concluded it was working, parts were enabled by mistake. We will be releasing two mods for v2 this afternoon that you will be able to choose from. One is going to be a recent topic block (defaulted on all v2 forums) and the other is a news block you can set in your admin panel.
While every forum must choose between one of these mods, the recent topics mod will be defaulted as to not cause confusion among users.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.