Geez
 

I just upgraded from 2.2.8 to 2.3.0(RC). This has been the hardest upgrade so far. I couldn't believe it but showgroups.php file has been changed the most. 42 TIMES!

And i'm gettin problems with showgroups.php but that's all so far. We'll see how it goes...

- miSt

Here we go again...

I'll wait a bit till it's out of RC... hopefully soon...

EDIT: I notice that the vB Dev Team have run this version for a few days already with no problems... so it's probably safe to use... :) Will upgrade this weekend.

I probably won't upgrade until VB3, but I've said that for like 3-4 months and have kept upgrading :P

glad that i haven't hacked showgroups.php :)

but i'll wait also a bit, but it seems the showgroups changes were very good...

Anyone have a link to a forum's showgroups who is running 2.3? I want to see the changes ;).

think you won't "see" the changes.
there wer structural changes to use other templates..

I really wish that Jelsoft would publish diffs or something of template changes...considering how heavily template mod'ed my board is it's not an option to keep reverting them.

beyond compare the vbulletin.style files :) ;)

Yes, because they're so easy to read with all those triple-pipes everywhere and whatnot :p

:p
at least it would show the differences between the files ^^
it shouldn't be easy to read, where would be the fun then? ;)

Beyond Compare is the best, for these type of jobs. :)

As for the files, I don't think any are moded except for one so upgrading those is quite easy.

I'm afraid of RC now so I'll wait for Stable. :D

I've hacked my showgroups to bits, so I'll probably not change that file nor the relevant templates. :)

I don't use showgroups and the mail functioning is working fine. So I guess I'll only update the bug regarding people making themselves registered...

Hehe araxis is definately the best. It cleans up against beyond compare. But i found some more problems today. This is all probably related to the fact i'm running a averagely hacked board :)

- miSt

Can a person manually upgrade from 2.2.8 to 2.3.0 without having to go up to 2.2.9 in the middle?

Yes as long as you run upgrade22.php and upgrade23.php (in that order).

nonono. I mean "manually" upgrade using filecompare instead of doing it the "loseallthehacksandmodsinstalled" way. ;)

It never freaking fails. I just got around to going from 2.2.6 to 2.2.9 and what do they do a week later? ARGH!

Yes but your site is massive amy... I'm sure you don't have "too" many major modifcations ;)

- miSt

Thankfully Steve says that this update doesn't include security fixes, just bug fixes and the addition of vbmail(), so it's not a critical ugprade.

Well so far there's been 3 major bugs reported...

@rose: yes, it's nearly the same procedure when upgrading from 229 to 230

just use other files to compare ;)

does anyone know where I can get the zip of 2.2.8? I've lost my original zip, and need to compare the files b/c my board is "slightly" hacked. Thanks

Hmm, i think the only way is to fill a support ticket in the members area and ask for the files..

thanks,

I upgraded in 30 seconds, I only have one hack installed .. microstats, LoL ;)

I am keeping my board clean of hacks until vb3.

.. and i can't even reinstall micostats because functions.php changed and I can't figure out a work-around :P