vBulletin 3.7 First Look!
 

vBulletin 3.7 - First Look

It's that time again! Today, the vBulletin development team is proud to unveil for the first time the forthcoming vBulletin version: 3.7.0.

vBulletin 3.7.0 contains a plethora of new features, many of which have been long requested by users and customers, while other new features will come as a surprise to everyone. 3.7.0 is slated to be the final major release of the vBulletin 3.x series before all forum development efforts are switched over to vBulletin 4.x, after which 3.x will receive only bug fix releases.

In terms of timescales, the plan is to upgrade vBulletin.com to run on vBulletin 3.7.0 on Monday (November 26th) and to let it run for a few days in order to get some feedback and bug reports before releasing the first public beta.

So, to the important bit: what's new in vBulletin 3.7?

Answer: Lots. But here, in no particular order, are some highlights...


Please read the full announcement and all new features at vBulletin.com: More...

3.7 looks awesome! Deserves waiting! :)

Oh WOW! Takin a look-see right now!
Thanx for the post

Jacquii.

Some interesting features.

I can't wait (really, LOL).

Some much needed features. I know what I will be doing tonight....UPGRADES!

Not tonight.

Awesome, I'm already waiting 3.7 =))

Are there any changes in coding?Like from 3.0 to 3.5?

Well they implemented YUI, so all AJAX features may (and should) have to be changed to consist with YUI. I doubt there will be a major change to backend code though going from 3.6 to 3.7...

Interesting. I was so convinced they were going to do friendly URLs. I'm actually quite impressed with the amount of added stuff, more than I thought and it generally looks very useful indeed as well. Not impressed with the design of the new social stuff though, it looks pretty rough to me.

I've never been part of a major upgrade before. What happens to modifications you have on an earlier version of vb if the newer version has that feature as a standard feature?

People stop using that modification, generally. Unless it still has things that the default feature does not.

User Picture Galleries and Lightbox implementation look great.

It was definitely a great decision to move to YUI platform. Its fantastic news.

Cant waitto see it in action in my site.

Sounds very cool to me. Can't wait. :D

so, 75% of the hacks released for 3.6 on vb.org are now integrated into 3.7... this is good news... that means that the coders here had GREAT ideas and concepts... (now, where are the credits for the ideas ?!)

just for these new features, i will open a new board on 3.7.. ;)

It's a very nice release, I'm glad Jelsoft seems to be moving from a "small fast code" to a "feature rich application". I only few bad for the big boards, but Jelsoft customer base seems to be more geared towards the second option.

I wish they have function aliases for old Ajax functions, or else I'll have a lot of work recoding mods :( and I'm lazy heh.

Nice, can't wait!

Look nice ;)

Real nice list with new features :D
Some in the list I already use via mods.

Now all I have to do is wait and see how much they altered in the code to make my mods 3.7 compatible :)

I will wait for the bugs to be worked out before upgrading.

I see it being like 3.6.8 and it being pushed out to soon and scrambling to make patches to fix the bugs and holes.

Santa Clauss Is Coming To Town!

The user profile page looks amazing.

WOW! I can't wait to see some of the new features.

I think 75% may be a slight over estimate ;)

I thought they might finally have put my most popular mod "out of business", given how many forums seem to use it these days - but it looks like I'll be doing a 3.7 version :)

looks good, can't wait!

So should I stop adding modifications to my site until after this newest version is released and the hacks are re-released for 3.7?

I'd hold off. You know there will be templates to be reverted and edits reapplied.

<insert expletive here>

Thanks for the advice.

I can't get just 1 thing: why they can not make "smiles in quickreply" by default (in a table, not drop-down) and "quote selected text in post"?!
On every next release of vB I believe they will release that kind of options, but not... ;(

its about time

Seems like some major changes :eek:

I can't wait for it to be release.

First question as always members will have. "Will my mods work on 3.7"

Some of them will and some of them won't.

I think a lot of modification will have to be re-done for 3.7.

Wow, they have done a lot. 3.7 looks amazing.

wow .. that really sounds like we have a great christmas time here ..

Absolutely worth the wait. :D

Wow... I want it NOW!

when does it come out?