[Brad]

RC 3 has been released

vBulletin 3.5 Release Candidate 3

Release Candidate 3 represents what we hope will be the final unstable release prior to the full vBulletin 3.5.0 offering.

What is a Release Candidate?

A release candidate differs from a beta release in that there are no known bugs. However, this does not mean that there aren't any bugs. A release candidate represents a version of the software that we believe is ready for release, but requires some more testing before we're sure.

Notes:

This release comprises all the bugs reported and fixed since 3.5 RC2. Of particular note is a workaround to a new issue present in PHP 5.0.5 and 5.1.x versions, relating to shutdown functions. We hope that the PHP developers will come to their senses and fix this problem but until they do we must work around it.

A behavior in vBulletin has been altered, that being that if birthdays are required at registration then users may not alter their birth date afterwards (the admin can change it for them). If your board was set to require birthdays at registration, you will need to re-enable this option via vBulletin Options > User Profile Options > Require Date of Birth.

Queries in external.php and in the find new posts system have been optimized for faster processing.

See this thread for a list of bug fixes and changed templates.