This is the latest build of the url's, the same that's included in 7.6.0 (the latest Snapshot build is
Fri Aug 28 2015).
As for your issue with converting to UTF8, aren't some of the characters used on your forum multibite? If so, you can't just move over to UTF8 as it doesn't support those characters. We've written a Wiki article regarding this issue at
UTF-8 vs Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1), which also has links to several character set related issues.
I replied to your thread at Central for the second issue, as to not derail this thread.