I'm waiting for that release.

It says in his thread
"It also works with vBulletin 3.7 (except for the optional profile template changes)." .... im a little lost, does it work with 3.7.2??

It doesn't make a lot of sense why he doesn't post updates in this thread. If he is still updating this mod, why keep everyone in the dark about it's development.

I'll be paying my own developer to fix this and add features. I'll try to contact jelle to get permission to post it up so other's can benefit.

Yup, I am using 3.7.2.

It is working fine for me...on ground level, ever since after the incident where I can't upload a file, but managed to link a file after an upgrade from 3.7.1 to 3.7.2

That means that it works with 3.7, but the optional profile changes aren't applicable because they completely changed the way the profile looks in 3.7.x.


It wouldn't make a lot of sense to post an update before it's finished, would it?

I'm confused with the license of this mod. The license says "Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes." Does it mean that we cannot use this mod in a site where I charge my member for a fee (through VB subscription) to download something?

Yes, it would. You don't generally keep people in the dark about how something is coming along. He could post in here "It's taking longer than I thought, but it's coming soon" and that would quell the fears that this isn't going to happen. That's what other developers do.

Would anyone like to share the cost of getting this updated as well as possibly adding features people want?

DownloadsII v5 is a derivate from Ronin's ecDownloads (which was removed from vB.org due to security issues). We needed to respect his license, which was this Creative Commons thing.
As v6 will be a full recode, it will have our own "license" (normal copyright) with no more commercial restriction.

"It's taking longer than I thought, but it's coming soon" :p

Getting it ready in three days after my exams was a bit too difficult. I dropped out some unfinished stuff and moved it to v6.1 (for example the use of the datastore cache) and now I'm finishing the last bits (integration of the new extension management in the upload/download mechanism and the new search). Most of the stuff is already ready and tested (for example the new report feature).

Wow sounds great. Which uni/course are you doing?