http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/ Find out the latest news about vBulletin here en Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:16 GMT vBulletin 5 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/images/misc/rss.png http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/ http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?326866-vBulletin-4-0-Beta-4-Now-Available-updated&goto=newpost Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:08:52 GMT 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... 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

Highlights of what’s Fixed and New in Beta 4:

• (updated) New Posts and Search Results have updated Style.
• Fixed Password Protected Forums bug
• Fixed Promote to Article bugs
• Fixed Ad Manager bugs
• Fixed some usability bugs in the Attachment Manager
• Fixed Video Players Aspect Ratio to 16:9
• Fixed Multi-page comments browsing: Added anchor, comments links, comment page parameters
• Fixed the CMS WYSIWYG to better handle images
• Fixed Pagination in multi-page articles
• (new) Added “Go to Last Post” link to the Recent Comments widget and Recent Forum Posts widget
• (new) Ability to allow Not-Registered/Not-Logged-in (Guest) to comment on articles with Captcha
• (new) Clicking on an article preview image now links to the article page
• (new) Clicking on an image in the article page will bring up the lightbox and display the image in full size
• (new) In Section Edit Page, we added a checkbox to limit the articles to display that section’s content only. Also, you can now choose to display/hide the “View All” link.
• (new) In Article Edit Page, we added extra article “display settings.” You can now choose to display/hide the article’s title, author, published date, and pageviews.
• (new) In Article Edit Page, we added an extra setting to the display the full article on the section page
• (new) CMS Articles can now include attachments

]]> vBulletin Announcements Don Kuramura http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?326866-vBulletin-4-0-Beta-4-Now-Available-updated http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?326416-Announcing-the-vBulletin-4-0-Public-Beta-and-extended-special-pricing&goto=newpost Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:52:18 GMT Dear vBulletin Customer,

We’re very excited to announce the release of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite Beta 3 and vBulletin 4.0 Forum Beta 3. This is our first public beta release of vBulletin 4.0 and the first opportunity for our customers to fully explore the many features of vBulletin 4.0.

vBulletin 4.0 Forum Beta 3 is available to all vBulletin customers with currently active licenses. If you have an active vBulletin license, you can download your copy of Beta 3 from the vBulletin Members Area at http://members.vbulletin.com . Please note that your license will need to remain active in order to access future product updates. For more information, please visit the vBulletin FAQ page at http://www.vbulletin.com/faq.php#faq-94 .

If you no longer have an active license, good news! We’ve just extended substantial pre-sale discounts on vBulletin 4.0. Visit http://www.vbulletin.com/order/index.php for more information on current offers. You can also visit www.vbulletin.com for comprehensive information about the benefits of upgrading to vBulletin 4.0.

Thank you for your continued support of vBulletin!

- The vBulletin Team ]]> vBulletin Announcements Don Kuramura http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?326416-Announcing-the-vBulletin-4-0-Public-Beta-and-extended-special-pricing http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?326177-New-Staff-Announcement-Welcome-David-Grove&goto=newpost Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:01:08 GMT I am very pleased to announce that David Grove (aka 'sockwater') has officially joined the vBulletin team.

David's initial role will be working on the vB4 bug queue, confirming/organizing bugs, as well as fixing bugs that are a quick fix. David has 5 yrs experience as a freelance PHP/MySQL programmer, working primarily on LAMP stacks and has some background in C++ as well.

Please join me in welcoming David to the vBulletin Solutions team. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?326177-New-Staff-Announcement-Welcome-David-Grove http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325115-vBulletin-Beta-3-Released-to-Customers-with-4-0-Licenses&goto=newpost Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:10:59 GMT We are excited to announce a major milestone on the path to vB4 - the release of Beta 3 to all customers who have purchased (or upgraded to) the new vBulletin 4.0 Forum or Publishing Suite licenses.... We are excited to announce a major milestone on the path to vB4 - the release of Beta 3 to all customers who have purchased (or upgraded to) the new vBulletin 4.0 Forum or Publishing Suite licenses.

Cool!

Yes, yes it is. :cool:

We are very excited about hitting this stage of development, and while there's more work yet to be done, we're very happy to finally get the product into the hands of the larger customer base.

Can we run Beta 3 in production?

The official answer is that you may run this beta release on public sites, but we don't recommend it. If you put it in production, make sure to back up all of your data and files before upgrading.

Please remember that there is no official support for vB4 until the Gold release, so if you decide to put it in production, you're taking all of the usual risks of using beta-stage software. This means that there are still known bugs, some of which might be significant to your members, depending on how they use the software.

Is there anything we should be especially careful of?

New, fresh installations have been relatively predictable, but we have experienced some potentially serious issues upgrading existing vBulletin installations, depending on customization, configuration and certain aspects your database. In particular, disable all of your plugins before attempting upgrades.

Some things to check before upgrading, especially if you are setting up a test site from a copy of your production site.

1) Make sure that the forum URL setting is correct.

2) If attachments are stored on the file system, make sure that the test site points to a valid attachment directory that is different from the production site's directory.

3) Make sure that any attachment files from the production site get copied to the test site directory.

Where do we report bugs?

In the usual bug tracker - here.

Will my existing styles and plug-ins work?

Please see this FAQ entry.

When will the gold release be?

The Gold release will come once all of our release criteria have been satisfied. At this time, we expect Gold to be released before the end of the year. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?325115-vBulletin-Beta-3-Released-to-Customers-with-4-0-Licenses http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?324756-Getting-Ready-for-Tomorrow-s-Developer-Chat&goto=newpost Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:44:09 GMT Per Joe Rosenblum's blog we will be hosting the first Developer Chat with Kevin Sours at on November 10th at 4:00PM Pacific Standard Time. In preparation for this we’ve set up an area for people to ask and vote on questions prior to the chat. You can do this here:

http://bit.ly/Y1NW0

Voting will close one hour before the chat begins. We’ll post more details about the chat tomorrow. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?324756-Getting-Ready-for-Tomorrow-s-Developer-Chat http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?324268-vB4-CMS-now-live-on-vBulletin-com&goto=newpost Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:59:14 GMT The Beta release of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite here on vBulletin.com has been updated to include the all-new CMS component. The public view of the CMS... The Beta release of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite here on vBulletin.com has been updated to include the all-new CMS component.

The public view of the CMS is the same as users on your site would see. At the moment, most of the CMS is populated with simple lorem ipsum placeholder content. The intent of this is to present examples demonstrating various page layouts, built-in and third-party widgets, preview images, navigation, etc. Additionally, the first articles describe the elements of CMS pages and how they are created.

We haven't opened up the administrative functions here, since that would require giving public access to the Admin CP.

How will we use the CMS on vBulletin.com?

Over the coming weeks, we will begin using the CMS to publish product information, tutorials, documentation and more.

How complete is this version of the Publishing Suite?

Please remember we are still in beta. There are known bugs, which we are fixing as quickly as possible. When you find bugs, you can help us by reporting them in the 4.0 bug tracker.

Enjoy! ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?324268-vB4-CMS-now-live-on-vBulletin-com http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?324229-Important-Notice-about-False-DMCAs&goto=newpost Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:43:55 GMT Recently it came to our attention that someone impersonating Bob Brisco contacted a host about an alleged DMCA violation regarding a vB customer. Please note that Bob Brisco did no such thing nor did... Recently it came to our attention that someone impersonating Bob Brisco contacted a host about an alleged DMCA violation regarding a vB customer. Please note that Bob Brisco did no such thing nor did anyone from vBulletin Solutions or Internet Brands do this. This was a hoax - pure and simple.

If you receive such a notification yourself, please contact us immediately via a support ticket for confirmation. Also if your host is contacted you need to insist that they contact us directly before taking any action against you. They can do this here: http://www.vbulletin.com/contact.php

Thank you. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?324229-Important-Notice-about-False-DMCAs http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?323708-Blog-Our-Vision-for-vBulletin&goto=newpost Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:52:02 GMT I would like to draw your attention to this blog post from Bob Brisco, CEO of Internet Brands, about the vision for vBulletin: *Our Vision for vBulletin... I would like to draw your attention to this blog post from Bob Brisco, CEO of Internet Brands, about the vision for vBulletin: Our Vision for vBulletin ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?323708-Blog-Our-Vision-for-vBulletin http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?323392-vB4-Publishing-Suite-Pre-sale-Update-and-Beta-News&goto=newpost Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:45:57 GMT Dear vBulletin Community: We are grateful for the landslide of interest you have expressed in the upcoming release of vBulletin 4.0. By any measure, the presale has been a huge success. Thank... Dear vBulletin Community:

We are grateful for the landslide of interest you have expressed in the upcoming release of vBulletin 4.0. By any measure, the presale has been a huge success. Thank you! Although the initial presale ends today (October 30, 2009 at 11:59 pm Pacific), we are pleased to announce an updated pre-sale offer.

If your license was active as of October 13, 2009, you may purchase the vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite for $160.00 USD.

If you paid an annual license update fee between October 13, 2008 to October 12, 2009, your price is $190.00 USD.

If your license was active prior to October 13, 2008, your price is $210.00 USD.

These offers will expire at 11:59 pm Pacific Time, on Monday, November 16, 2009.

We are also very pleased to announce today that all customers who have honored us with their purchases of Forum 4.0 or Suite 4.0 will also be able to download Beta. Read this Blog for more! ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?323392-vB4-Publishing-Suite-Pre-sale-Update-and-Beta-News http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321919-New-Blogs-Concerning-vB4&goto=newpost Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:19:03 GMT I just want to point out two new blogs that you may be interested in viewing. The first is a Blog by Don Kuramura, Product Manager, with documentation explaing how to skin (or style) vB4: *vB4:... I just want to point out two new blogs that you may be interested in viewing.

The first is a Blog by Don Kuramura, Product Manager, with documentation explaing how to skin (or style) vB4: vB4: Skinning Your Forum in 10 Easy Steps

The second is a Blog by Joe Rosenblum, CTO of Internet Brands, Inc. of special interest to the vB Development community: Dear vBulletin Developers...

This is just the beginning. You can expect more like this in the future. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321919-New-Blogs-Concerning-vB4 http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321893-About-the-New-License-Structure-and-Amended-FAQs&goto=newpost Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:02:22 GMT With the upcoming release of our new vBulletin 4.0 software products, we have introduced corresponding new licensing and pricing structures. Overall, reaction from our customers has been very... With the upcoming release of our new vBulletin 4.0 software products, we have introduced corresponding new licensing and pricing structures. Overall, reaction from our customers has been very positive, as evidenced by record-setting sales.

Introducing new products is challenging, especially for a wide and well-established customer base, such as we have with vBulletin. A small but vocal group of impassioned vBulletin enthusiasts has expressed some concern and confusion about these new developments. We are listening and have made a number of modifications in response. Our purpose with this communication, including the amended FAQ's, is to explain our rationale behind these new licensing and pricing structures and to illustrate their benefits.

The new structure is designed to create incentives for the more rapid feature-releases of our software products, allowing for a more dynamic line of products. The pricing is structured to provide these new features at very competitive price points. The pre-sale event was designed to reward our current, loyal vBulletin customers with the option to get these new features at a significant savings.

Our customer base is more than 100,000 strong. We designed and aggressively discounted the price of the new vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite with the aim of providing the best product at the best price to as many of our customers as possible. The Suite offers a compelling value: it encompasses a a platform to support Forums, Blogs and new modules for community publishing, customer support and all future 4.0 software updates for the life of the product.

We believe vBulletin continues to provide an exceptional software value with these new products: an individual license is priced at the cost of just a few hours of development.

We hope this additional information and the newly updated FAQ's provide some clearer answers. We are listening.

Visit the updated vBulletin FAQ. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321893-About-the-New-License-Structure-and-Amended-FAQs http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321667-And-we-re-back&goto=newpost Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:01:42 GMT We decided to take some extra time before bringing the forums back up after the upgrade to 4.0. Briefly, here's what happened.

First, the good news: The installation of 4.0 itself actually went as planned. The upgrade to 4.0 Publishing Suite from the 3.8.4 base product was seamless, and that agrees with the success the alpha/beta team has seen up to this point.

The issues we encountered were related to the fact that the instance of vB running on vBulletin.com has integration points with various business systems: administration, release management, ticket support, the product information site, and more. Cooler heads make better problem solvers, so we chose to investigate and solve the problems with the site offline rather than live to the world.

The issues we ran into are unique to our environment, and they are not things that would factor into a normal customer installation.

We're happy to have the forums live and stable. As noted in my announcement Wednesday night, this is a very early beta release, so there are still known bugs yet to be fixed before the gold. As you find bugs, you may report them here as usual. As we work through the beta cycle, we will periodically update this installation to include the latest bug fixes. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321667-And-we-re-back http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321627-Upgrading-vBulletin-com-to-4-0-tomorrow&goto=newpost Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:41:45 GMT We know everyone is anxious to see vB4 in action, so here it comes! We are planning to upgrade vBulletin.com to vB4 starting very early tomorrow morning. The plan is to put /forums/ into... We know everyone is anxious to see vB4 in action, so here it comes!

We are planning to upgrade vBulletin.com to vB4 starting very early tomorrow morning. The plan is to put /forums/ into maintenance mode in the middle of the night (Pacific time) and be live again by mid-morning.

Please note that this rollout will be an early beta release. By early, I mean really early, much earlier than betas have historically been rolled out on vb.com. It is not a release candidate, so there will be rough spots, which we're still working on, but we are choosing to make this available now in order to give you the earliest possible view of what is being built.

This initial rollout will include Forums and Blog, as well as an internal build of Project Tools. It will not initially include CMS, but that will follow soon afterward.

We have tested the upgrade process in a staging environment, and we are confident that it should go well. In the event that something doesn't go as planned, we will simply revert to the current installation of 3.8.4, fix what breaks, and try again.

In anticipation of the expected questions...

Why didn't you wait until the product was more "done"?

To give you the earliest possible view of the new vB4.

Why didn't you wait until the CMS could be released along with Forum and Blog?

To give you the earliest possible view of the new vB4.

Why aren't you delaying the release until feature _____ is implemented?

In the spirit of release early, release often, we want to get releases out to customers early, in order to get real-world feedback, and often, so that they can start benefiting from basic features as soon as they are available, with more advanced features following shortly after in subsequent releases.

See you in the morning! ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321627-Upgrading-vBulletin-com-to-4-0-tomorrow http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321621-vBulletin-4-0-Beta&goto=newpost Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:44:42 GMT The beta testing cycle for vBulletin 4.0 Forums and Publishing Suite will be starting within a few business days. Many thanks to the hundreds of customers who applied to join the beta program. ... The beta testing cycle for vBulletin 4.0 Forums and Publishing Suite will be starting within a few business days. Many thanks to the hundreds of customers who applied to join the beta program.

Those customers who were selected to join the beta program have been notified by email. If you did not receive an email, please don't PM me to ask if you were approved; if you were approved, I'll make sure that I make contact with you by email, PM and/or phone. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321621-vBulletin-4-0-Beta http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321337-Forum-Moderation-Announcement&goto=newpost Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:27:40 GMT As vBulletin has grown over the years we have often allowed posts on our forums which frankly are not constructive and which other companies would not allow on their sites. We have done this in the... As vBulletin has grown over the years we have often allowed posts on our forums which frankly are not constructive and which other companies would not allow on their sites. We have done this in the belief that most people can be reasonable and conduct themselves maturely and constructively. We still believe that most people act this way.

However it is clear that this policy has only opened the door for types of conduct and comments that are simply over the top and not acceptable. This is going to change as of now.

Please be aware that we will no longer allow posts with non-constructive rants, inflammatory language and trolling on our forums. We are aware that some people are used to being allowed to get away with such things. But beginning now that will no longer be the case. Such posts represent a distorted picture to current and potential customers and while we would like to be able to trust people to act maturely, events have proven that is simply not possible. We will, of course, continue to respond to real questions.

To the vast majority of our customers that have supported us over the years and that have responded to the vB4 Pre-sales event positively with their record orders, we say thank you and will do everything in our power to reward your faith and vote of confidence with exciting new things for the future. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?321337-Forum-Moderation-Announcement http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320542-Pre-Sale-offer-for-customers-with-expired-licenses&goto=newpost Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:26:01 GMT Due to an overwhelming response and interest in the pre-sale event for vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite, we've decided to extend an offer to those customers with inactive licenses.

For licenses that expired in the last 12 months, we are offering an extra $45 discount for advance ordering, in addition to the publicly available pre-sale savings. This means the all new vB 4.0 Publishing Suite will cost you only $190, a total savings of $95.

For licenses that expired more than 12 month ago, we are offering an extra $25 discount for advance ordering, in addition to the publicly available pre-sale savings. This means the all new vB 4.0 Publishing Suite will cost you only $210, a total savings of $75.

These limited time offers expire on October 30, 2009. Beginning on October 31, the price will be $285.

You will be able to take advantage of this offer in the next couple of days - we are currently working to make it an option in your shopping cart. We will notify you once this offer is live on the website. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320542-Pre-Sale-offer-for-customers-with-expired-licenses http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320208-vB4-Screenshots&goto=newpost Wed, 14 Oct 2009 03:04:19 GMT Some screenshots of the vBulletin 4.0 Suite have been released. You can see them here: http://www.vbulletin.com/index.php?do=screenshots More will be made available as time permits. Some screenshots of the vBulletin 4.0 Suite have been released. You can see them here:
http://www.vbulletin.com/index.php?do=screenshots

More will be made available as time permits. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Wayne Luke http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320208-vB4-Screenshots http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320055-Announcing-the-Presale-Event-for-vBulletin-4-0-Suite-and-Important-License-Changes&goto=newpost Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:27:49 GMT We hope your community is enjoying the flexibility and power of vBulletin™. As always, our goal is to offer a great product at a great price, and we are dedicated to helping you build and grow... We hope your community is enjoying the flexibility and power of vBulletin™. As always, our goal is to offer a great product at a great price, and we are dedicated to helping you build and grow successful online communities.

Over the last 12 months, we have been building vBulletin 4.0 to be the most powerful forum and social publishing software. Today, we are proud to introduce the new vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite product that includes the power of the vBulletin 4.0 Forums with a seamlessly integrated content management system (CMS) and blogging platform.

As a preferred customer with an active license, we are excited to offer the vBulletin Publishing Suite at a pre-sale discount price of only $130 (over 50% off regular price). This is a truly limited one-time special offer giving you $120 off the upgrade price but will expire on Friday October 30, 2009.

Learn more about vBulletin Publishing Suite features and pricing on our new website: http://www.vbulletin.com/

Beginning today, we are introducing new a license structure. vBulletin is changing to a one-time owned license fee for each major point release. That means no more annual renewal fees. Once you purchase a major point version, you’ll receive maintenance, security and minor point releases for the life of 4.x.

You have the option to keep your current active license until it expires (according to the 12 month term and conditions). For the remainder of your active license, you will continue to receive support and have access to forum software updates, including vBulletin 4.0 Forums. Once your license expires you will only be able to access the 4 Series software updates by switching to the new one-time owned license. For more information, visit the vBulletin FAQ.

Over the last 10 years, our products have offered an exceptional value and we look forward to bringing you the best and keeping you as a loyal customer. Our team is expanding in number and expertise in order to develop more innovative features and to deliver them faster. We are investing in exciting development areas such as new products and services for 'Big Boards' and mobile applications and look forward to helping you grow your community.

Sincerely,

The vBulletin Team ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320055-Announcing-the-Presale-Event-for-vBulletin-4-0-Suite-and-Important-License-Changes http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320054-New-vBulletin-Site&goto=newpost Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:26:57 GMT As most of you are aware we rolled out the new vBulletin site today. While substantially done there may still be some issues and some things, such as the Member's Area, still need to be updated.

Meanwhile if you see something that looks like a bug or have a suggestion, please post in in this Project.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?projectid=11

Thank you. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?320054-New-vBulletin-Site http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?319642-vBulletin-China&goto=newpost Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:54:37 GMT After much discussion with the vBulletin China team, we have made the decision to discontinue sales through vBulletin China for the time being. The official vBulletin China domain, vbulletin-china.cn... After much discussion with the vBulletin China team, we have made the decision to discontinue sales through vBulletin China for the time being. The official vBulletin China domain, vbulletin-china.cn, now points to forums.vbulletin-china.cn.

This decision does not reflect negatively in any way on the vB-China team. In fact they have done an excellent job taking care of vB customers in China, and members of the vB-China team are currently working with the core US development team on vBulletin 4.0. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?319642-vBulletin-China http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?319572-vBulletin-3-8-4-PL1-3-7-6-PL1-and-3-6-12-PL2-Released&goto=newpost Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:00:32 GMT *vBulletin 3.8.4 PL1 / 3.7.6 PL1 / 3.6.12 PL2* An XSS flaw within the user profile page has recently been discovered. This could allow an attacker to carry out an action as a user or obtain... vBulletin 3.8.4 PL1 / 3.7.6 PL1 / 3.6.12 PL2

An XSS flaw within the user profile page has recently been discovered. This could allow an attacker to carry out an action as a user or obtain access to a user's account. To resolve this issue, it has been necessary to release a patch level version of the active versions of vBulletin.

The upgrade process is the same as previous patch level releases - simply download the patch from the Members Area, extract the files and upload to your webserver, overwriting the existing files. There is no upgrade script required.

As with all security-based releases, we recommend that all customers upgrade as soon as possible in order to prevent any potential damage resulting from the flaw being exploited.


Upgrading from 3.8.4, 3.7.6 or 3.6.12

If you are already running the latest version of the 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8 branch, the process you will be required to follow to make your board immune to this flaw is very simple.

There is no need to run an upgrade script if you are already running the latest version.

Visit the Patches section of the vBulletin Members' Area and download the patch for the version you are using, then extract the files from the archive you downloaded, then upload the files to your board via FTP etc., overwriting the existing files. This will update your version to the PL1 release.


Upgrading from an earlier version

If you are not already running the latest version of 3.6, 3.7 or 3.8, you should download the latest version from the Members' Area and perform an upgrade as normal.

Full instructions for upgrading vBulletin are available here.


Download vBulletin 3.8.4 PL1 / 3.7.6 PL1 / 3.6.12 PL2

As usual, the version released today is available for all customers with valid, active licenses to download from the vBulletin Members' Area.

vBulletin Members Area ]]> vBulletin Announcements Freddie Bingham http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?319572-vBulletin-3-8-4-PL1-3-7-6-PL1-and-3-6-12-PL2-Released http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?318532-vB4-and-vB4-Suite-Update&goto=newpost Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:50:45 GMT Just a quick update to let you know that we have released Alpha3 of vB4 to the Alpha testers along with the first Alpha version of the vB4 Suite (which we are calling an 'alpha3' version because it contains the latest fixes to the forum functions as well.)

As most of you know the Suite contains the new CMS. Since this is a first look it understandably has some rough edges but the Alpha testers are already providing useful feedback regarding this. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?318532-vB4-and-vB4-Suite-Update http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?317523-Maintenance-Window-for-vBulletin-com-and-org-Tonight&goto=newpost Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:10:42 GMT Starting at 10:00pm Pacific time tonight, we will be taking the vBulletin.com and .org servers down for a brief maintenance window in order to upgrade memory and increase traffic capacity. This... Starting at 10:00pm Pacific time tonight, we will be taking the vBulletin.com and .org servers down for a brief maintenance window in order to upgrade memory and increase traffic capacity.

This maintenance window will affect vBulletin Germany and China as well.

We expect that the down time will be approximately 30 minutes. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?317523-Maintenance-Window-for-vBulletin-com-and-org-Tonight http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?316887-Please-welcome-Sophie-Xie&goto=newpost Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:32:34 GMT I'm very happy to announce the addition of another new member to the vB Team. Sophie Xie is an exceptionally talented UI designer and programmer with experience in UX research, CMS programming, and graphic design. She is currently working on the vBulletin 4.0 interface, with a particular eye toward consistency and usability.

Like Don, Sophie almost exclusively uses OSX.

Please join me in welcoming Sophie! ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?316887-Please-welcome-Sophie-Xie http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?316885-Please-welcome-Michael-Henretty&goto=newpost Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:58:28 GMT It gives me great pleasure to announce the addition of a new engineer, Michael Henretty, who joined the vBulletin development team earlier this month. Previously, Mike was working for a security... It gives me great pleasure to announce the addition of a new engineer, Michael Henretty, who joined the vBulletin development team earlier this month.

Previously, Mike was working for a security software company, specifically on a Network Access Control product. But his love of social networking and online communities prompted him to seek a change in career path, and we a very excited to have him on the team.

Currently Mike is focused on debugging in preparation for upcoming alpha and beta releases. Eventually he will be working on developing new core features for the vB suite.

Please welcome Mike to the team! ]]> vBulletin Announcements Ray Morgan http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?316885-Please-welcome-Michael-Henretty http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?316696-vB4-Alpha-Update&goto=newpost Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:45:59 GMT I just wanted to provide a quick update on the status of the vB4 Alpha testing program. We have already released Alpha 2 to the test team. As you would expect this version provided a number of bug... I just wanted to provide a quick update on the status of the vB4 Alpha testing program.

We have already released Alpha 2 to the test team. As you would expect this version provided a number of bug fixes and incorporated some of the very useful suggestions coming from the testers.

To date most of the reported bugs have to do with relatively easy-to-fix template issues. However as with any Alpha version there have been a number of code bugs uncovered. To that end we have set up a bug-scrubbing operation to help identify, prioritize and streamline the debugging process. The primary goal is to deal with the most critical bugs first so we can get the software ready for Beta release.

In addition the style has been further refined from what the previous mockup pictures have shown. Plus there are some new icons and images to go along with the style that are a much better fit than the old vB 3.x images.

And finally as some of you have noticed from Freddie's Blog we have added a Video BB Code to the editor bar. This allows for seamless inclusion of several video formats, which currently includes:

• YouTube
• Vimeo
• DailyMotion
• Hulu
• Metacafe
• UStream

As with any updates please be aware that this is not all-inclusive nor does it represent the final list of improvements and features. We will continue to update you as new info is available for sharing. ]]> vBulletin Announcements Steve Machol http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?316696-vB4-Alpha-Update