vBulletin 3.8.0 on vBulletin.com
 

As you may have noticed, we have just upgraded the vBulletin.com forums to version 3.8 in order to get some initial production testing.

We'll post more details as time allows, but for now please have a look around and give some of our new features a try. Look out for social group discussions, lightbox navigation, the new 'Community' menu on the navbar and lots more!

Have fun, we're sure you will.


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seems to be no difference right now, as there is no detail on what is new in 3.8 ???

The only difference I notice is the quick reply on pms

look into the blog;)

Seems the same as always to me... though I suppose most 3.8 changes are admin side.

what does the BLOG have to do with core vb tho? The Blog is a paid addon.

don't like it no changes :(

i mean: the changes are posted in the blog;)

1. navbar: communitymenu
2. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/group.php?
3. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/album.php?
4. pm system

Actually there are over 30 new features in vBulletin 3.8.0. The developers will post more on them as they are able to.

The social groups and PMs are pretty big and extremely obvious changes, for the better (how you couldn't notice them being changed I don't know). Looks good though, although it needs some more features for each area of the forum/board, and it's impossible to know what moderator and admin features are new.

Go look in a thread that has multiple images - the lightbox now has a next and previous button (I think that's new, no?).

Social groups are a bit different too.

Please, take your time developers. I'm just now getting comfortable with the changes made in 3.7.

Suspense is building...

At first glance it seems quite a much less changes than the number of changes between 3.6 and 3.7 and therefore looks more like a 3.7.x
But looks may be deceiving. I wonder what's hidden in there. :)

I only show 22 features added to 3.7.0... Though some of them were bigger features to be honest.

I like the changes :)

Any code changes?

Most of the changes I have seen in 3.8 so far have already been addressed in 3.7.x with add-ons.

The Social Group Forums, All User Albums, Better Social Group Page layout modifications for 3.7.x still look quite better than what I have seen with 3.8.0 Alpha 1 so far.

can't seem to figure out how add a category pic for the social groups. and can't tell if there have been any NOTIFICATION features aded fro the albums and social groups as well.

but still...much improved can't wait to implement it :)

erm where vbulletin 3.8.0 will be release???

sounds good, Though i'll most likely stay with 3.7 series till 4

I thought that from 3.7.x series vBulletin would be moving to vB 4.0

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=163433

I don't mean to sound rude, but is this another setback from moving to vBulletin 4.0?

I don't think so. I think they want to differentiate all of the new features in the current version. It makes more sense to add them to a 3.8.x than screw with the maintenance releases of 3.7.x.

there is bug in 3.8

I can't active my account !!!

I do registered but it give me blank page :s

and my account didn't active :s

could any one post this bug in the project page ?

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php

thanks

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=280752" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=280752</a>

very nice :)

I am so glad to see that there is now a report button in the private messages. Hooray!
:D

I do not see the UserCP Icons as promised. :(
agreed!

Well it's still in Alpha. Perhaps the UserCP icons will still be added.

Would be nice to have PNG navbar icons as well like MyBB has.

Looks deffo nice.

Great work of the vBulletin Development Team!

Some good changes :)

I don't use social groups on my forum, but I'm really going to appreciate the revamped PM system. I keep lots of PMs (in the thousands) and the only way I've been able to search through them before is by exorting to CSV and looking that way.

But the changes that are made, can also be made with some plugins for 3.7.x?

Most of them so far.....

As with any big update, some mods will still work on later versions, some won't. It all depends what's been changed, and you won't really know that until the Beta/RC is out.

That is a good thing in a way: better to have code included in the standard and supported software, than added as plugins.
It seems that most of the new features are improvements of the features that where introduced with vb 3.7
I guess all the major changes will be in vb 4

Where was this promised?

No, i mean that if you don't upgrade it, you can still have the same features with some mods for 3.7.x

Yes you can, but most people would much prefer to use official, supported functions, rather than third party ones. Don't get me wrong, I love vBorg and use a lot of modifications myself, but if I had the choice between an official one and a 3rd party one (which is only supported as far as the author's free time permits) it should be quite obvious which one I'd go for.

I'm about to have someone upgrade my forum 3.6.8, should I have them upgrade to 3.8 or should I wait until it is out on stable release?

When is the stable release expected?

3.8 hasn't been released at all yet. It's still in Alpha and is only on vb.com for testing purposes.

If you're going to upgrade soon you may as well upgrade to the latest stable version, which is currently 3.7.3 PL1

Thanks for the clarification.