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We are excited to announce the release the new Beta 4 versions of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite and vBulletin 4.0 Forum. If you have an active vBulletin license, you can download your copy of Beta 4 from the vBulletin Members Area at:
http://members.vbulletin.com .

Beta 4 fixes more than 140 bugs since the release of Beta 3 last week. Thank you everyone who has filed bugs in our bug tracker. If you find a new bug, please continue to file bugs here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?projectid=6 ...

There has been a lot of discussion on the forum about static content and caching in vB4, and I got me thinking... 9 out of 10 times when I look at a forum that someone is reporting as "slow", they aren't using memcached. Probably 8 out of those 9 times, enabling memcached solves the problems. It is one of the easiest things you can do to supercharge your forums, especially if you have millions of posts, threads with 10,000+ posts, or are running vBSEO-- and it's already built into vBulletin! ...

Tutorial written by Pritesh Shah & Michael Anders

So you've finally got your hands on the shiny new vBulletin4 and you are ready to upgrade your forum. But wait! Before you upgrade – how do you test to make sure everything will work? This guide will show you how to create a vBulletin4 “Test” environment without breaking your “Live” forum.

Important Notes:
As always, please proceed at your own risk. While some of the general steps and advice are applicable to ...

Custom Templates
If you create custom vBulletin based files that utilize custom created templates within your forum installation, there are a few tricks to get them to work with vBulletin 4. Prior to vBulletin 4, you were able to use the following code to get vBulletin to evaluate the custom template for your script.

eval('print_output("' . fetch_template('myCustomTemplate') . '");');

With vBulletin 4, the same thing can be accomplished with the following ...

Prior to vBulletin 4, you could reference your plugin variables within the templates without any extra necessary work. Say you wanted print out the words "This is my plugin" within the template header. The following code (with the correct plugin Hook Location) would allow you to do that.

$myplugin_output = "This is my plugin";

$myplugin_output would then be referenced within the appropriate template.

With vBulletin 4, a little extra work is necessary ...