vBulletin 4.1.5 now available for download
 

I am happy to announce that vBulletin 4.1.5 is now available to be downloaded from the vBulletin Members Area at: http://members.vbulletin.com

Important
We had envisaged to incorporate an updated mobile style for 4.1.5, however development and QA to get the product to a sufficient level of quality has taken a longer period of time than we had initially envisaged, and we are not sufficiently satisfied with the style yet in its current state. We are targeting to incorporate this product in version 4.1.6. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

vBulletin 4.1.5 includes:


Mobile App Identifier
If you are using the Mobile Apps for the site, you can now see if a post was made using a mobile device.
Click on the link above for more details!


New Smilies
Replacing the standard package smilies - and incorporating over 150 additional smilies that you can install on your site. Provided by the SmileyCompany.


Bug Fixes/Improvements
Here is a list of the major bug fixes/improvements included in this release. A full list of issues fixed are available HERE.

Major fixes

• Non-ASCII characters (umlauts, accented chars, etc) don't work in the mobile style.
• Caret is invisible in Firefox
• Registration fatal error - Existing data passed is not an array
• Cannot submit posts using Safari on the iPad
• Fatal error: Call to a member function get_grouped()
• Uncaught mysqli exception during upgrade
• Memcached Unavailibility results in vBulletin Crash
• Error prevents upgrade from 3.x database with vbblog addon to 4.12. paymentapi table Error.
• Canonical URLs are not being constructed correctly
• Recent CMS Comments widget with invalid userid causes fatal error
• Facebook Like it "forgets" who has liked articles
• New Youtube iframe embed code
• Custom Datastore entries being built on every page call
• Disable IE8 Compatibility Mode option is backfiring on IE9
• CKEditor: [img] tag appears when you EDIT an article
• MySQL 5.5 doesn't support current DBalter class
• Duplicate header "date" when using SMTP
• HTML entities displayed incorrectly when editing a Static Page or PHP Direct Evaluation
• showgroups.php Not Scalable
• If "Advanced Insert Image Popup" is disabled, inserting an image from URL always attempts to retrieve remote file and reference it locally
• New Lines Stripped from Quick Edit when Saving the Changes Using Source Mode
• method_exists segfaults if the class is non-existent
• Incorrect Memcache DB fall back
• Typo in two social group files makes moderation of social group pictures impossible
• Usertools.php merge action bug
• Database error: Column 'attach' cannot be null
• ReCaptcha has changed their URL and we need to update for this
• Clicking "Close" on New Article Creation Saves Blank Article
• Deleting a user who has a group causes PHP fatal error
• Unnecessary database query when notices are dismissible
• Deleting an User Infraction Group causes its members to be "blocked"
• vB will not send emails to Vertical Response
• Attachments can't be deleted
• Formated text in WYSIWYG displays as in 'Source' mode for CMS comments
• Unable to add image from album for profile background in Profile customization
• Go Advanced Page is displayed when clicked on Edit comment link for blogs
• Security warnings due to Facebook Connect when site is using HTTPS / SSL
• Edit a template and get "adding child to non-existent node!" when using incorrect styntax
• vbcms_article_preview_image should generate a thumb and not use full size image
• Depreciated Style Variables still showing in Style Variable Editor
• In Source mode, any custom BB code buttons always insert the last custom BB code tags
• CMS section: 20 article limit for 'Per Page' setting
• 'Display Updated Date' has no effect in CMS content
• &pagenumber= variable is in hyperlink of the thread title on the first page of any thread
• vBulletin ignores HTTP protocol version
• Empty or strange results when finding all posts by a member.
• Facebook Like button only works when Facebook Connect is activated
• MSNBot Renamed To BingBot
• Article Publish Time an Hour Behind
• Uncached Templates in Search Results
• CMS Content with Permission Preview setting doesn't show preview in category view and in "View Articles" of a certain user
• CKEditor smilies not functioning with iPhone
• Incorrect stylevar datatypes - notices_shadow_color and member_popupmenu_shadow
• Canonical URLs are not being enforced correctly
• Slow query in newreply.php
• Inefficient query in private.php
• Hook Location In vB_Session::fetch_session()
• In templates vbcms_content_phpeval_page and vbcms_content_staticpage_page - extra quotes
• vB_Search_SearchController::get_similar_threads() Method Run On Preview
• Forumdisplay pagination title to avoid duplicate title tags
• Links in Daily notification emails always go to the first post
• PHP direct evaluation content cached in php over sessions, even with Cache refresh time = 0
• Favicon filename should be a stylevar
• Viewing pm's or pm folders isn't marked in the UserCP navigation
• RSS feed widget --> links not target="_blank"
• Remove images about PT from vBulletin package
• Add a Paste as plain text button to the editor
• Duplicate code in thread.php
• Hook request in class_reportitem.php
• When creating a blog entry, the user can add as many tags as others can, not as the entry author
• Blog Trying To Cache Template That Doesn't Exist - blog_navbar_link_menu and blog_navbar_search
• Year field for user's date of birth not validated when editing profile
• Events shown on forum home are shown twice in some cases (DST problem)
• PM Quick Reply isn't using the QR editor
• Non-image attachmens are inserted with the config parameter in the editor
• cms_textedit.js was removed, but it is still referenced in some files
• Image and Video buttons missing when editing article if "Allow [IMG] Code in Non Forum Specific Areas" is Set to No
• Get Rid of vB_Search_Core::get_instance in search.php
• Disabling forum setting "Allow [IMG] Code" hides the Insert Image button, but it should allow to use it to insert attachments
• Attachment Quick Search in Admin CP shows results in an incorrect order
• Can't delete blog comments permanently using inline moderation: it only soft-deletes and doesn't give an option
• Member List has hardcoded maximum number of users to show per page, but it's not documented
• Clicking 'Add Signature Picture' does not work.
• class_taggablecontent.php
• Cannot edit blog entry from list with option "Disable Problematic AJAX Features"
• Use of {vb:each} with $errors
• 'Mac' users cannot insert 'returns'/line or paragraph breaks with new Editor
• Script error is thrown upon clicking table properties after creating a table
• Using " as smiley text to replace will cause the smilie popup to insert the smilie text truncated
• postbit.css missing background for threads
• Editpost template issue
• Double global
• Import New Style, Then Not Refreshing the Screen
• Option pagenavpages doesn't perform as advertised
• Page Count calculated incorrectly if Plug-in is used
• vbcms_widget_recentcontent_page template error
• code review of includes/class_dm_blog.php
• Code Review includes/class_dm_threadpost.php
• Thread Display Options, New Line Issues
• Comments of unregistered users don't show up in CMS widget "Recent CMS Comments"

Again, thank you to everyone who has filed bugs in our bug tracker, we sincerely appreciate your assistance.
If you come across any bugs in the product, please continue to file them in our new tracker.

Feedback on the product is welcomed here for licensed customers.

Enjoy,
Adrian


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