vBulletin 3.7.5 Released
 

vBulletin 3.7.5

vBulletin 3.7.5 contains a number of bug fixes, details of which can be found in the bug tracker.

The security fixes included in vBulletin the 3.7.4 PL1 release are also included in vBulletin 3.7.5.


vBulletin 3.8.0 ("Gold") to be Released on Thursday, January 8th

3.8 has progressed well through the beta and release candidates stage. We're happy to announce that the stable release of 3.8.0 will be made available to all customers with active licenses on Thursday, January 8th.

We would like to thank all customers who have taken part in the beta/release candidate process and especially those who have filed bug reports.


Upgrading from Previous Versions

3.7.5 is a maintenance release. We recommend that all customers running prior versions of vBulletin 3.7 upgrade to benefit from bug fixes and stability improvements.

Full instructions for upgrading vBulletin are available here.


PHP and MySQL Requirements

Please note that vBulletin 3.7.x requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

However, we recommend that vBulletin 3.7.x is run on PHP 5.2.8 with APC (or a similar opcode cache) and MySQL 5.1.30 for best performance and stability.


End of Life for PHP 4

PHP 4 has now reached its end of life. We strongly recommend that customers update their servers to PHP 5.2.8 if they are still running PHP 4. vBulletin 3.7.x supports PHP 5 without any problems, though you may need to disable strict mode for MySQL, see here on how to enable 'force_sql_mode'.

Note: We will continue to support PHP 4 in the vBulletin 3 series.


Download vBulletin 3.7.5

As usual, vBulletin 3.7.5 is available for all customers with valid, active licenses to download from the vBulletin Members' Area.

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That's great. Gold is coming very soon

Am anxiously waiting for 3.8.0 "Gold"

wont bother with 3.75 will wait for 3.80 gold thanks

It will take some time before all mods are updated to 3.8. As 3.7.5 is a bug fix, it cant hurt to update.

looking forward to 3.8 gold :D

3.8 is for free for legitimate 3.7.x owners? Did I miss something?! If not, this is cool. :)

Same here.

Same here...

just upgraded all went great thanks also waiting for 3.8

yeah, more updates :D

oo 3.8 thursday woop, just installed 3.7.5 so thats good :D

i think ,, mmmmmm

i'll wait for 3.8 ;)

Lemme get this straight. We have to go to the members area, download the entire vBulletin 3.7.5 script, overwrite the current files, and then run an update script? This is the impression I'm getting.

To be honest, this is rather ridiculous. Coming from SMF, I can say that there are way better ways of doing this (Hell, updating from 1.1.6 to 1.1.7 was about 2 clicks in the ACP)... I'd say that install, transfer, and updating is vBulletin's greatest faults... And to be honest, I'd rather not have my forum offline for the time it takes to update all this! :mad:

That two-click upgrade leaves your forums vulnerable to security breaches as well. I guess SMF didn't tell you that. In order for your server to overwrite your code files, they need to by writable by the server. This allows things like the Yahoo Counter trojan to spread across a server hitting every site and infecting thousands of end users. In the past it was a worm specifically designed to infect phpBB installations by exploiting a quick upgrade system like this. They don't even have to attack your site. Just attack a site on your server.

All in all you're forums will need to be offline for less than 10 minutes to upgrade if you have a decent internet connection. Turn them off, Upload Files, Create database Backup, Run Upgrade script, turn them on. If you have SSH access you can lower this to less than a minute or two using this technique.

Big if here... So there's a good reason, I take it back. Sorry, I spoke too soon. This is part of the reason I like vB... And hate it at the same time. Oh well. But all the files need to be changed? Why all of them? Why not just the ones that have changes? (Guessing there's a simple reason for this and that I'm about to feel pretty stupid again)

Really the reason that we have you upload all files is that is makes our job easier. A list of changed files is posted in the release announcement.

kk.

Thank you Wayne for pointing this out to lamers like me. I am like all and do not want my forum down but for God's sake it is better to be down for 10 minutes than 10 days when you get PHPBB hacked every few days or for sure every upgrade period.

I am so grateful to have gotten Vbulletin as I almost did years before and now would not switch for any reason.

As well the 3.8 may appeal to a lot of folks and I too will go to it some day in the future but not for now as I prefer the things I know work over the ones that may and may need some time to finish baking.

I thank however the entire VB team and all the fine coders that contribute to it.

really good job upgrade to 3.7.5 :)

I'll most likely wait till 3.8 to upgrade now :D

Bleros and Wayne or any admin or associates with VBulletin, can you elaborate on what is the benefits of the 3.75 upgrade? While I generally prefer to keep all older versions of software as a rule, I make the exception with forum packages normally due to security fixes. Does 3.75 address any specific security risk in the 3.xx series? I have the PL1 I guess it was called added to my 3.74.

My greater concern however is where or not that it will in anyway affect any of the popular mods or hacks that we have just installed a ton of?

I guess I really wonder why some or many or most of these mods that are most popular are not actually offered in a version or package of Vbulletin as well but that is another issue.

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This is my other concern as to what 3.8 will offer that makes it appealig to upgrade to ?

Im surprised... :o

The first paragraph of this thread does answer this question.

PS @all please use this thread to discus 3.7.5 release, not to dicuss the upcoming 3.8 version. There is a seperate thread for the 3.8 discusion.

Please put a "3.7.5" option for us coders. Currently it's only possible to say "this product works fine with 3.7.4". Thanks.

Thanks for reminding. Added.