[beano33]

Originally Posted by sv1cec

This whole issue of updates is really making me nervous. I am still at release 3.01, because I have made so many mods to my files/templates etc. that I do not dare to upgrade, I would hate to go through the same process again. Is there a list of files which shows which have changed between 3.01 and 3.03? Just thinking that this can occur every six months, when vB is releasing a new release, makes me crazy. I think I'll stick with 3.01, until something major is done.

I asked one of the vB people this in mid-September before I upgraded from 3.0.1 to 3.0.3 and was told it would be at least a few months before the next version and that I should update then unless I have a lot of custom programming in PHP. There's a list of file changes in the announcements forum at vbulletin.com. I was able to upgrade with only one major problem due to a search hack that we installed that modified search.php. vB changed it's search so if you have any search hacks installed, it's liable to conflict, so it's best to remove it before you start. The other issues just involved redoing the templates we had modified (postibit legacy, navbar, and a few I can't remember). It was simply a matter of saving the templates we had modded as text files and pasting them back in. They all worked fine with the upgrade. Custom templates and custom php files weren't affected.