vBulletin 3.7.0 'Gold' Released

[vB.Org System]

vBulletin 3.7.0

Today, the vBulletin team is proud to declare version 3.7.0 to be our stable, supported release.

vBulletin 3.7.0 is available immediately from the Members' Area (http://members.vbulletin.com) to all customers with active vBulletin licenses, and will be offered as the primary choice to those making new purchases (https://www.vbulletin.com/order/).

This release supercedes the 3.6.x branch as our primary product. vBulletin 3.6.x will continue to be maintained for a limited time, as outlined in the end-of-life announcement (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268829) posted today. We recommend that all customers with active licenses upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0.




There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.0 over vBulletin 3.6.x, most of which have already been described in the release announcements for the various pre-release versions, and in the First Look (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249460) thread that was posted at the beginning of the beta process, but here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.
Inline spam management & prevention (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450764#post1450764)
Thread tagging (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450765#post1450765)
Search cloud / tag cloud (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450765#post1450765)
Thread prefixes (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450766#post1450766)
Reciprocal friendships between users (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450767#post1450767)
Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450768#post1450768)
User picture galleries with user comment facility (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450769#post1450769)
User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450770#post1450770)
Extended member profile pages (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450771#post1450771)
Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450772#post1450772)
Inline editing of custom user profile fields (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450773#post1450773)
Lightbox viewer for attached images (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450774#post1450774)
Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450775#post1450775)
Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450776#post1450776)
Notices system for navigation bar (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450777#post1450777)
Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450778#post1450778)
User change history (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450779#post1450779)
Social bookmarking integration (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450780#post1450780)PHP and MySQL Requirements

vBulletin 3.7.0 requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16, but we strongly recommend that all customers run PHP 5.2.5 with APC and MySQL 5.0.51 or later. Major performance benefits can be had by taking the recommended route rather than simply satisfying the required versions.

What is a 'Gold' Version?

When talking about software, the term 'gold' is not related to the color of the application. Rather, it refers to the practise of burning the final version of a software product to a CD-R so that it can be sent to a large scale CD press for large-scale distribution. It is used to indicate that the code is ready for deployment to customers. The official name of this new version is vBulletin 3.7.0.

Installing or Upgrading vBulletin

Anyone who has installed or upgraded any version of vBulletin 3 before will be familiar with the process, but for those who are new to the system, the vBulletin manual has all the details for installing (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/install) and upgrading (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/upgrade).

Template Changes

A large number of templates have been changed when compared with vBulletin 3.6.x. It will be necessary to revert affected customized templates or otherwise carefully integrate the changes into your custom versions or new features and existing functionality will be adversely affected. A complete list of the templates you have customized whose original version has been changed by the 3.7.0 upgrade is available within your Admin Control Panel after the upgrade is complete.

Bug Reports

As with any software, bugs will appear. If you find a problem that you believe to be a bug, please don't post about it on the forums where the development team may never find your message, but instead use the dedicated bug tracker (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?do=issuelist&projectid=6&issuetypeid=bug) to make a report that can be tracked through to completion.

Before reporting a bug, please ensure you are able to reproduce the problem on a board using a default, uncustomized style with all plugins disabled.


More... (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268833&goto=newpost)

For support questions, please use the appropriate forums on vBulletin.com

[unfv]

yeah baby!, I've currently downloaded

[codershark]

yeeeeah :D when it will public at vbulletin-germany.com ?

[KURTZ]

just downloaded! :D

[bijju]

Great News

[Paradigm]

Great Great news. Nice job!!

[Defkalion]

Nice work! Time to renew the license :)

[rapidphim]

Finally... hopefully there will be no major update from vB in the future..

[vbengland]

very good :D

[elbacha]

great work VBulletin team :)

[mastertek2000]

great thanks

[Ohiosweetheart]

I am a happy camper!

[kiril_cvetkov]

:P Wow

[glennybee]

Oooo...off to my test forum I go lol.

Thanks! :)

[WEBDosser]

gratz

[cheat-master30]

I have to upgrade to this. And about time!

[Stromba]

Nice thanks

[turbo.:R]

:up:

[Marco van Herwaarden]

just upgraded and got this error...

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/turbor32/public_html/phillystreetbikes/forums/includes/functions.php(1385) : eval()'d code on line 13
As requested in the first post: Do not use this thread for support questions.

PS That is an error caused by a plugin on your board.

[Wayne Luke]

just upgraded and got this error...

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/turbor32/public_html/phillystreetbikes/forums/includes/functions.php(1385) : eval()'d code on line 13
Caused by a plugin. You will need to figure out which one by disabling them one at a time and then contact the plugin author for an update.

[Barakat]

Finally ...

[turbo.:R]

sorry and thank you

[PoetJA-1975]

Nice! Good job vB Team :D

Jacquii.

[iogames]

3 releases in 1 month???

I'm speechless...

although glad to be part of vBulletin :)

[DarkGizmo]

Awesome! i'll download it when i get home. :D

[SVTCobraLTD]

I'm not into the new look of the profiles. Is there a way to disable to stay with the current 3.6.x look?

[christian8a]

I'm not into the new look of the profiles. Is there a way to disable to stay with the current 3.6.x look?

is very easy to do on the profile CSS , you can also remove or add boxes on the new profiles

Awesome news for the Gold Release, vb Rocks!!!

[choccyclaire]

*dies*

So happy!

Downloading now. :)

Thanks VB. :D

[codershark]

not avaiable at vbulletin-germany.com :((

[Jase2]

Great! Just upgraded. Smooth as butter.

[SEOvB]

I'm not into the new look of the profiles. Is there a way to disable to stay with the current 3.6.x look?

take your old memberinfo template and copy over the new one?

[Jasem]

Great News

[figu120]

very good...
apenas me actualizare lo hare en el local para no tener problemas un saludo

[steve1966]

thank you

[Jase2]

very good...
apenas me actualizare lo hare en el local para no tener problemas un saludo

This board is English - please use it.

[WFZ]

This board is English - please use it.

He did, he said it in English, then in his own language. ;)

[Stingray27]

Im pretty sure that he said more than "very good" ;)

[Subah]

When will vbulletin.org move to 3.7 ?

[Hornstar]

:) excellent news at long last. Now whens vb 4 going to be ready :D

[King Kovifor]

When will vbulletin.org move to 3.7 ?

vBulletin.org just upgraded to vB 3.6.10. Several aspects need to be rethought and re-implemented before it is upgraded. This will happen in due time.

[Valter]

What happened with securitytoken?

Some features in different hacks has been blocked by CSRF protection in RC4 but works fine after upgrade to Gold.

[King Kovifor]

The securitytoken should still be within the release.

[urdu]

Good News!

[Ohiosweetheart]

I'm not into the new look of the profiles. Is there a way to disable to stay with the current 3.6.x look?
Just disable it in your ACP

[figu120]

This board is English - please use it.


excuse my English is very low, and as there is no official site in Spanish then I was very hard


translated through Google

[meolangthang]

Great! I have expected this release for a long time :D

[myown]

thanks waiting since long time

[kinggori]

I uploaded and upgraded but it still says "You are currently running vBulletin version 3.7.0 Release Candidate 1."

Any idea why that is?

[ecihanuysal]

tnx a lot :)

[Afterglow86]

Just installed. Was worth the wait.

[Subah]

vBulletin.org just upgraded to vB 3.6.10. Several aspects need to be rethought and re-implemented before it is upgraded. This will happen in due time.

I`ll upgrade after vbulletin.org do it :)

[SuperDave71]

Congrats on the GOLD RELEASE!!

and on behalf of our forum...

Thank you guys so much for all your hard work and dedication!

Thanks,

SuperDave71

[kp^]

Sweeet! Upgraded with ease!!!

Gratz on 3.7 GOLD!

Thanks!!

[rowlandc]

I uploaded and upgraded but it still says "You are currently running vBulletin version 3.7.0 Release Candidate 1."

Any idea why that is?

I believe asking on vbulletin.com will be a better place for support. ;)

[Jase2]

I uploaded and upgraded but it still says "You are currently running vBulletin version 3.7.0 Release Candidate 1."

Any idea why that is?

Have you ran finalupgrade.php which uploads the .xml files and updates your version number. However, support questions need to be posted in the appropriate forum at vbulletin.com

[wickland]

how is the URL structure in this new update? Will it change the URLs of my current posts if I update?

This is an SEO type of question as I don't want to lose rankings or anything like that.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

URL structure has not changed since 3.0 and has not changed now.

[wickland]

Thanks, I'll have to take a look at this update, I've never done an update before.

[rinkrat]

Is the security token problem from rc4 fixed or will we have to edit all of the templates to fix the errors?

[King Kovifor]

The security token problem was fixed in RC4, the only thing is that you need to implement it on custom modifications. Contact the author for a fix.

[KHALIK]

congrats to vb team