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View Full Version : Fixes for bugs in v2.2.1


tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:16pm
This thread will contain links to and/or actual code fixes for bugs found and fixed in v2.2.1.

Unfixed/dev-unverified bugs:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35448
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35348
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34816
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33734

Will not be fixed until v3:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33867
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34251
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33677
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34295

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:22pm
Symptoms: Users can see the names of private forums, despite not having access to them, on showgroups.php and online.php
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33867
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=225626#post225626

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:24pm
Symptoms: The forumjump that appears while displaying the standarderror template does not work.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34302
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=212321#post212321

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:26pm
Symptoms: Users receiving 'We could not activate your account because this web address is not valid...' error message when attempting to activate their account.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34719
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34720

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:27pm
Symptoms: Birthdays do not save correctly when you manually add users through the Admin CP under Users > Add.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34270
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=212550#post212550

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:31pm
Symptoms: When accessing a thread from a search results page, the words you searched for are highlighted. However when attempting to go to the next page of the same thread, words are no longer highlighted.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34994
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=217968#post217968

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:35pm
Symptoms: Attempting to login to the Admin CP with a correct username but wrong password generates a login screen with a link to 'Forgot Your Password?' That link is incorrect.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34929
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=217219#post217219

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:38pm
Symptoms: When accessing the main User CP page you get a database error regarding private messages.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35206
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=219462#post219462

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:41pm
Symptoms: While in the Moderator CP, the link to Moderate Attachments is incorrect.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35769
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=223013#post223013

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:44pm
Symptoms: After making a database backup via the Admin CP, all columns are marked as 'not null' regardless of actual setting in the live database.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35468
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=221223#post221223

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:46pm
Symptoms: When viewing showgroups.php, the location field for moderators may be blank despite users having a location set.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33997
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=210292#post210292

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:48pm
Symptoms: When viewing showgroups.php you may discover that your group name is not plural.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33997
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=210292#post210292

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:50pm
Symptoms: Using the Admin CP to mass-add smilies already on your server ignores any .png files in the directory.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35814
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=223423#post223423

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:52pm
Symptoms: Netscape 4.x might enter an infinite JavaScript loop when viewing the avatar upload page.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35984
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35984

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:54pm
Symptoms: If you previously allowed guests to post but now don't, and allow them to view a forum but not 'Can View Others Threads', guests will still be able to view other guests threads.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35909
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=224348#post224348

tubedogg
Thu 27th Dec '01, 9:56pm
Symptoms: Unclear but if you are having problems with this try the fix.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34721
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34722

tubedogg
Fri 28th Dec '01, 8:01pm
Symptoms: When you are sent a PM and have the PM popup turned on, and are using Netscape 4.x, you might receive a JavaScript syntax error.
Thread: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36203
Fix: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36203

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:09pm
Symptoms: While mass-deleting or pruning threads (or deleting a single large thread), you encounter a "max execution time exceeded" error from PHP.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33734
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=236375#post236375

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:14pm
Symptoms: When quoting a message that already has multiple quote blocks with replies interspersed, the only text quoted is the reply after the last quoted section.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=34950
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&postid=236457#post236457

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:18pm
Symptoms: When posting an attachment on a board that the admin has 'attachment moderation' turned on for, a user can get around this by editing their post, copying the URL that is listed for them to preview their attachment, and post it in their message for users to use directly, effectively overriding moderation.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37599
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=235543#post235543

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:20pm
Symptoms: When searching for a user in the Admin CP, it may find no users, but instead of telling you that it will say "showing users 0-1 of 0" and pretend that it found users.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36612
Fix: Not posted

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:25pm
Symptoms: Various spelling errors in the Admin CP.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37540
Fix: Not posted

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:27pm
Symptoms: Unclear.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37043
Fix: Not posted

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:30pm
Symptoms: If you accidentally merge a thread with itself, it disappears from the database.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=20625
Fix: Not posted

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:33pm
Symptoms: Posting an asterisk in the middle of a URL (sometimes used for ads etc.) makes the URL auto-parser ("Automatically parse URLs?") stop.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=36721
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=235907#post235907

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:36pm
Symptoms: When adding a custom vB Code and you include [ or ], they appear as \[ or \], respectively.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33677
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=235902#post235902

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:38pm
Symptoms: When mass-emailing users with 0 posts, you may end up emailing all users by mistake.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35448
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35448

tubedogg
Mon 21st Jan '02, 2:42pm
Symptoms: When using PM read-tracking features, you may encounter a database error if your buddy list is blank.
Thread: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37142
Fix: http://vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=233595#post233595