vBulletin 3.5 RC 3 released

[Brad]

RC 3 has been released :)

vBulletin 3.5 Release Candidate 3

Release Candidate 3 represents what we hope will be the final unstable release prior to the full vBulletin 3.5.0 offering.

What is a Release Candidate?

A release candidate differs from a beta release in that there are no known bugs. However, this does not mean that there aren't any bugs. A release candidate represents a version of the software that we believe is ready for release, but requires some more testing before we're sure.

Notes:

This release comprises all the bugs reported and fixed since 3.5 RC2. Of particular note is a workaround to a new issue present in PHP 5.0.5 and 5.1.x versions, relating to shutdown functions. We hope that the PHP developers will come to their senses and fix this problem but until they do we must work around it.

A behavior in vBulletin has been altered, that being that if birthdays are required at registration then users may not alter their birth date afterwards (the admin can change it for them). If your board was set to require birthdays at registration, you will need to re-enable this option via vBulletin Options > User Profile Options > Require Date of Birth.

Queries in external.php and in the find new posts system have been optimized for faster processing.

See this thread (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=958414#post958414) for a list of bug fixes and changed templates.

[soniceffect]

Looks like I wasn`t the only one lurkin around then LOL ..... Just posted this in general myself :) ..... Lookin like it could be a gold next .. yipee!!!!

[john_robot]

Great Going to Upgarde now. :)

[nexialys]

i upgraded long time ago... ok, 3 hours back... charm, sexy, etc...

[Marco van Herwaarden]

3 hours? you where late. :D

[nexialys]

3 hours? you where late. :D
yeah, i have a family life you know.. lol... and i compared all the files to see the changes... so it took a little 30 minutes to do so!

[Nutz]

What is the normal amount of 'RC's before gold?

[Guest190829]

Yay, I knew it would be released today. I'm so happy ^_^. Next has to be gold!

[Biker_GA]

Thought Next was Apple? :D

[Marco van Herwaarden]

number of sixpacks/number of developers*#bugs reported

[loonytune15]

Damm good news, hoping for gold soon.

[Princeton]

is there now a solution for the datastore (specialtemplates - for plugins)?

[Boofo]

is there now a solution for the datastore (specialtemplates - for plugins)?

LOL I was just going to ask the very same question.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Not had time to look for that, but i doubt it.

[IceBurn3000]

After installing RC3, half of my Plugins' navgroups have disappeared from the ACP Navigation bar. Is anyone else experiencing this?

[peterska2]

any edits to admincp/index.php would cause that as they are now undone.

[Andreas]

is there now a solution for the datastore (specialtemplates - for plugins)?
No. But there is a "solution" to make a one-time edit that survives vBulletin Updates: config.php

[IceBurn3000]

Im not that thick :P

The navgroups that are missing all have cpnav_plugin.xml files in includes/xml folder.

[Andreas]

any edits to admincp/index.php would cause that as they are now undone.
I expect he didn't edit anything there :)

Check if the Files are attached to non-existing Products.
RC3 checks if the product specified is installed, if not they are hidden.

[IceBurn3000]

Check if the Files are attached to non-existing Products.

RC3 checks if the product specified is installed, if not they are hidden.What if <navgroups product="vBulletin"> and they still dont show up? Some of the missing navgroups do not have a product associated with them (ie. the old ibProArcade 3.5 version and the PayPal donations system) and they all use <navgroups product="vBulletin"> :S

[Boofo]

No. But there is a "solution" to make a one-time edit that survives vBulletin Updates: config.php

What is the solution and how do we implement it for various hacks?

[Marco van Herwaarden]

How did you do the install? Did you remove all files before uploading RC3? Also it COULD be a permission problem, maybe permissions have changed.

[IceBurn3000]

How did you do the install? Did you remove all files before uploading RC3? Also it COULD be a permission problem, maybe permissions have changed.I just uploaded the files and set it to overwrite all files. The same way I have always done it. Never had any problems with the navgroups disappearing anywhere from Beta 4 - RC2. What kind of permission problem?:ermm:

EDIT: Okay. I think I have fixed the problem. Well, I dont think I have, I know I have, but I'm not sure why it was a problem in the first place :ermm:

Okay, so I was playing around the with nav XML files and by changing <navgroups product="vBulletin"> to <navgroups product="vbulletin"> (ie. the "b" in vBulletin to lower case) the navgroups re-appeared.

[Andreas]

What if <navgroups product="vBulletin"> and they still dont show up? Some of the missing navgroups do not have a product associated with them (ie. the old ibProArcade 3.5 version and the PayPal donations system) and they all use <navgroups product="vBulletin"> :S
vBulletin != vbulletin :)
It must be vbulletin.

(Think I did that wrong in my How-To ... checking)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Yes Productname is case-sensitive.

[IceBurn3000]

But it worked in RC1 and RC2 no problems.. That's what confused me... Doesn't matter anyway :)

[Andreas]

RC1 and RC2 didn't care if the Product was present or not.

[IceBurn3000]

That explains it then ;) Thanks for the help guys :)

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Hmm i think i am the one to blame for this then. I made a bugreport that when a product was disabled, the menu options still showing.