vBulletin 2.0 BETA 3 Released

[John]

Discuss away! Don't forget that we have dedicated forums for the sake of questions, bugs and suggestions about vBulletin 2.0.

John

[chrispadfield]

you guys rule. Thanks.

Can i make a suggestion for now (like has already been suggested) that you make a sticky thread for listing bug reports from beta3 so that we know:

i) what you have already fixed for beta 4
ii) what you are working on fixing

just so it stops some duplicate bug reporting and saves everyone's time.

cheers and good work guys, going to upgrade now.

[Joe]

Wow, i had no idea there were that many bugs in beta 2 ;)

I'll upgrade tonite, i still hope we will see a template / style change for header and footer to make co-branding easyer in the final release! (see sig)

[Fred]

Why the hell did you make a vBulletin 1.1.6? I mean, 2.0 is coming out soon. Why not spend that extra time on 2.0 final? That way it comes out faster.

Anyways, good job on the bug fixes. Whens vB2.0 FINAL being released?

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Fred
Why the hell did you make a vBulletin 1.1.6? I mean, 2.0 is coming out soon. Why not spend that extra time on 2.0 final? That way it comes out faster.


how about reading the changelog?



Fixed three potential secutiry issues


Anyways, good job on the bug fixes. Whens vB2.0 FINAL being released? [/B][/QUOTE]

When it is ready. How are they meant to know how many bugs will be in this version? you can see the exact progress of the software what more can you ask for?

[JimF]

2.0 is beta. For this reason, many sites have not upgraded. 1.1.5 was the latest stable version of the software. If there is a problem with this version, don't customers who aren't beta testing the newest version deserve to have a safe, secure product? Hence 1.1.6.


-jim

[Joe]

Did you read the 1.16 announcement? It sounds like it was a needed upgrade! Alot of people do not run beta software, im glad they upgraded the 1.1x version. Also, i know alot of people that are not planing on running v2, as they dont need the v2 features, version 1.16 works for them.

Dang you Jim! I should just stop posting, im too slow!

[eva2000]

hmmmm... more upgrading thanks :D - in a good way :)

[Sharg]

Hi,
I'm about to upgrade my production web site running 1.5 to 2.0beta3.
I would like to know if much changes are expected for the next betas (final ?) except bugs killing of course.

Thanks,

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Sharg
Hi,
I'm about to upgrade my production web site running 1.5 to 2.0beta3.
I would like to know if much changes are expected for the next betas (final ?) except bugs killing of course.

Thanks,

why does it matter? they are going to fix bugs as quickly as possible, if they happen to add new features as they go along what is the problem? it is not as if there won't be an upgrade script :)

[Sharg]

Yes but I fear major template change.
having to translate and customize all templates is huge work.

+ with all the discussions about the search feature, i'm a bit worried since the search feature is quite a major part of the script.

[Freddie Bingham]

The search only consists of 5 templates.

[Sharg]

Yes Freddie, thats a good observation, but what about the huge amount of data that is accumulated during indexing if its not going to be used by the potential other version of the search engine ?

I'm quit unconfortable dealing with emptying data table and such.

Anyway, i will definetely not wait :D I'll upgrade this week end or the next :D I just can't wait ;)

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by Sharg

I'm quite unconfortable dealing with emptying data table and such.


arrr.. this is really very easy, if you can install vbulletin you can empty a table! I am sure any upgrade script would anyway remove any uncessary tables but to empty a table is literally a matter of typing

DELETE from tablename

inside phpmyadmin

[Sharg]

Yes, i'm not yet using this phpmyadmin everyone is talking about. I'll install it tomorrow.

[Me2Be]

Originally posted by Sharg
I'm quit unconfortable dealing with emptying data table and such. Sharg, I've dumped my searchindex and wordindex table multiple times while the guys were playing with the search (millions of records).

Right now, I have the searchindex totally disabled until a new search is figured out (with 440,000 posts it got quite massive)

[Mas*Mind]

I've tried to download the new bèta (3), but got an error from winzip: This apears not to be a valid archive (or something like that)....

[eva2000]

well i upgraded to beta 3 just a few minutes ago - :D

[Sharg]

Me2B, thanks for your comments.
Can I:
updrade to 2.0.
Do not run the index post feature.
Disable the search. (not by commenting lines in the script, just from the CP).

When new posts are made will it not cause problems since I didn't run the index feature from the mainainance CP ? I know that newp posts will be indexed but I don't care much about them until a new search feature is found. What I would prefer to avoind is to have to index the posts that are ALREADY in my current DB.

[Mas*Mind]

Originally posted by eva2000
well i upgraded to beta 3 just a few minutes ago - :D

Odd, tried it a phew times :(

[version2]

Went smoothly...thx for the fixes guys...as always!

[Me2Be]

Originally posted by Sharg
Me2B, thanks for your comments.
Can I:
updrade to 2.0.
Do not run the index post feature.
Disable the search. (not by commenting lines in the script, just from the CP).

When new posts are made will it not cause problems since I didn't run the index feature from the mainainance CP ? I know that newp posts will be indexed but I don't care much about them until a new search feature is found. What I would prefer to avoind is to have to index the posts that are ALREADY in my current DB.
What I did was comment out this line in newthread.php and newreply.php
indexpost($postid,1);. I didn't want to disable the search in the CP because you are disabling "view new posts, view posts by this user, and view today's active posts" and my visitors would KILL me. So I just changed the template for the search by keyword saying "temporarily unavailable" and left it at that.

[Sharg]

Oh, so Its not an obligation to have the posts indexed to be able to use the newposts / active posts features ? This makes sense. What I'll do then is I will NOT index the posts after upgrading, disable indexing from the posts and reply template and replace the search template by "temporaly unavailable".

Thus I can peacfully wait for the definitive search solution.

Thanks,

[Me2Be]

Originally posted by Sharg
Thus I can peacfully wait for the definitive search solution.Surprisingly, my visitors have been very accepting of this temporary situation :)

[Mas*Mind]

Zip works now :)

[leadZERO]

Just upgraded to beta 3, just about flawless. The only thing I ran into was the "footer" template didn't get set to the newest one with the variable for the name, however I think this was leftover from a previous upgrade when I had modified it.

Oh well board works great.

[JWS]

Just wondered which files changed.... I've done some customizing to those and would like to get a hit list.

Thanks and if I can get this darn "attached imaged not displaying" problem fixed, I'll be in good shape! I'm enjoying the customization more each day.

[eva2000]

Originally posted by JWS
Just wondered which files changed.... I've done some customizing to those and would like to get a hit list.

Thanks and if I can get this darn "attached imaged not displaying" problem fixed, I'll be in good shape! I'm enjoying the customization more each day. check here http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10841 to see what changed :)

[jozero]

I'd like to know exactly what security modifications were made.

I install of vBulletin is highly modified to integrate with an existing user database and php4 native sessions. I still use the vBulletin sessions for some stuff as I just haven't gotten around to ripping it out yet.

Could we have the security fixes for this release listed?

Thanks!

[chrispadfield]

use that program that is listed in the member's area for comparing two files and look for the differences. beyondcompare or something i think

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by jozero
I'd like to know exactly what security modifications were made.

I install of vBulletin is highly modified to integrate with an existing user database and php4 native sessions. I still use the vBulletin sessions for some stuff as I just haven't gotten around to ripping it out yet.

Could we have the security fixes for this release listed?

Thanks!

I doubt they will want to do this until people have had a chance to upgrade, otherwise it just tells a hacker how to hack it!

[Robert Basil]

Upgraded from b2 to b3 with no problems.

Thanks!

[Jose]

Upgraded to to beta 3 with no problems either.

Jose

[klisis]

Same, not a problem appeared.

[freaky]

Upgraded to beta3 from UBB 5.47a and everything went smooth except the timezones ; I set the server as CT ( GMT-6) but all the imported threads have a different time ; they are like 12/14 hours ahead so when new posts are posted, they end up being on page 3/4.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong ? I had beta2 installed a few weeks back with no timezone problems

[Swamper]

Upgraded from beta 2 to beta 3 without a problem.

[maztec]

Went from B2 to B3 with no problems. Fixed my administrator login problems. And cleared up the security issues I'd been running into.

Thanks! Great update.

Maz

[Theiggsta]

I have found a bug in beta 3...

Aparently when you have a username such as John*Smith it will not show up in your buddy list and it will display in the online users area as John*Smith*

Its a wierd bug...I hope it gets fixed...

[Zecherieh]

Originally posted by Theiggsta
I have found a bug in beta 3...

Aparently when you have a username such as John*Smith it will not show up in your buddy list and it will display in the online users area as John*Smith*

Its a wierd bug...I hope it gets fixed...


The user has his settings set so he is invisable - that is why you see an * at the end (as admin you will see everyone, the invisable users will be at the end of the online list with the *)

[Sean]

Is it easy to download? I mean, all I have to do is overwrite all .php files for admin and board and run upgrade3.php (I have beta 2), right? Nothing will be lost?

I just wanna be sure.

BTW: I haven't read this whole conversation, so excuse me if I am asking what has already been asked. :o

[EXCHANGE]

Originally posted by Sean
Is it easy to download? I mean, all I have to do is overwrite all .php files for admin and board and run upgrade3.php (I have beta 2), right? Nothing will be lost?

I just wanna be sure.

BTW: I haven't read this whole conversation, so excuse me if I am asking what has already been asked. :o

You're rigth just overwrite and use the upgrade3.php. You won´t loose any data.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=10841

[Rupe]

Upgraded from beta 2 to beta 3 smoothly :).

[rick]

Alpha to beta 3 without a single problem!

Excellent upgrade.

Rick

[Jaxsdad]

No problems here either! You Jelsoft people ROCK!

[Ravi Pachai]

I overwrote all the old files in admin/ and uploaded the new dirs however I am getting the current message:

Please be sure to upgrade your config.php to vBulletin 2.0 standard before continuing with the upgrade.

the upgrade file I invoked was the one you are suppose to when upgrading from 1.1.x ...any help would be appreciated.

Ravi

[jamez]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=10342&highlight=config.php.new

[Pingu]

Ok, I have finally upgraded to beta 3 from Beta 2. Uploaded all the files and ran Upgrade3.php and everything seemed fine. Just noticed one thing:

The powered by thing at the bottom of this forum says
"Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.0 beta 3"

But on my forum it says:
"Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.0 Alpha"


Did I miss anything?

[jamez]

Just a human typo error. Is Vb a great product or what... My members love the new version.



Originally posted by Pingu
Ok, I have finally upgraded to beta 3 from Beta 2. Uploaded all the files and ran Upgrade3.php and everything seemed fine. Just noticed one thing:

The powered by thing at the bottom of this forum says
"Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.0 beta 3"

But on my forum it says:
"Powered by: vBulletin Version 2.0.0 Alpha"


Did I miss anything?

[Darkbee]

Where the **** can i find the manual of vbulletin2?

Plz someone help me with it.

Dark Killerbee

[John Harrison]

Originally posted by Darkbee
Where the **** can i find the manual of vbulletin2?

Plz someone help me with it.

Dark Killerbee

That lanuage wont get you anyway.

It will be release when vBulletin 2 is launched in final.

[VirtueTech]

Hello,

I'm waiting for the VB 2.0 to get a final release so that I can do some custom work to the files to allow for one global user DB over multiple sites.

How much longer to you project the final release to be?

Thanks. :)

[Goodieman]

good question

although it might run stable, i prefer to wait until the final product is released.

so when is the releasedate?

could anybody of the development-team give comment on that? or should we expect something like 'when it's done'?

[Raptor]

where can I get the defaulyt templates for v2 as I have upgraded from 1.1.5 to v2 b3 and everything looks EXACTLEY the same - i have no idea what the new features are

thanks in advance

[Mike Sullivan]

Originally posted by Raptor
where can I get the defaulyt templates for v2 as I have upgraded from 1.1.5 to v2 b3 and everything looks EXACTLEY the same - i have no idea what the new features areThey are always available from with in the templates page -- just click 'view original'. If you don't have that 'view original' link, then you're already using the default.

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by Goodieman
or should we expect something like 'when it's done'?

Sounds good to me. :) But really, there's no way to know when it will be released. There will *definitely* be a Beta 4, which has not been released yet, so we're at least one release away. And who knows what will be found with beta 4? It may go smoothly, or some new bugs may crop up. There's no way to tell, and that's why it isn't prudent to offer a release date till they're about ready to release it.

[Goodieman]

ok, i don't mind, but there we're several options that i really would like to see integrated in a final version.

because there's one simple problem with the current version. i have different admins that may moderate items, but are not allowed to use some of the forums.

for example: i have content-crew and forum-crew.

the forum-crew may moderate/view all except the room of the content-crew.
but since every moderator/admin has the right to enter all forums, i've got a serious problem. :P

i'm concidering to upgrade to the beta4 (if released) but because of the size of our forum im very concerned of security or bugs. so..how stable will beta4 be? Will it be safe enough to use and update my current version?

second question: i assume this update is free for my current license. if not please let me know

[Mike Sullivan]

but since every moderator/admin has the right to enter all forums, i've got a serious problem. :PThey only have permission to enter the forums you gave them permission to enter. All you have to do is create 2 usergroups and take away permissions for the forums each group can't access.


how stable will beta4 be? Will it be safe enough to use and update my current version?I'm a little biased, but I've been using vB 2 since mid/late-January and haven't encountered many problems at all. I'd say it's quite stable.


second question: i assume this update is free for my current license. if not please let me knowCorrect.

[DeMoN]

eddy not too good about the login probs (gettin logged out consistantly) i beg beta 4 out V soon