vBulletin 3.0.4 Released

[Kier]

vBulletin 3.0.4

This version has been superceded by vBulletin 3.0.5.
Please visit the 3.0.5 release announcement.

Happy New Year, and welcome to vBulletin 3.0.4.

This is not the major version release that has been rumoured for the past several weeks, although work on that version is progressing nicely. Instead, vBulletin 3.0.4 represents a roll-up of a large number of fixes for bugs found in version 3.0.3.

Importantly, with the 'Santy' worm currently scouring the internet for vulnerable servers, this release also preempts various vulnerabilities in PHP itself, and closes a hole in vBulletin that could potentially allow SQL injection. Additionally, we have altered the code in order to prevent POST requests being made from off-site forms, preventing malicious and mischevious self-submitting forms from affecting vBulletin installations.

Therefore, we recommend that all customers running vBulletin 3 upgrade to version 3.0.4 as soon as possible.

We would also remind you that PHP should be upgraded to at least version 4.3.10 or 5.0.3 to avoid recently published vulnerabilities.


Backing Up Your Forums
Please be sure to check your backups, that they are complete before continuing with an upgrade. We had reports that PHP was causing time out errors when creating the back up SQL, and this was causing for incomplete or corrupted backups. The safest way to do a backup is to use the mysqldump utility through SSH/Telnet, as it will not suffer from any such problems. Full instructions for backing up your database are available in the vBulletin 3 Manual.

Installing or Upgrading vBulletin
Please see the appropriate manual sections: Installing vBulletin and Upgrading vBulletin.

[Kier]

• 3118 - AdminCP Stats are misaligned
• 3126 - Little typo in includes/functions_databuild.php
• 3132 - Short php tags used in forum.php and upgradecore.php
• 3135 - Problem with adding multiple smilies when the full URL is used
• 3139 - forumpermissions.php: Displaying a single forum is broken
• 3123 - Rebuild Styles is in English
• 3235 - Referral Report
• 3150 - Jelsoft Enterprises Limited Link in Admin Panel
• 3166 - Wrong redirect when changing into pda mode
• 3176 - Wrong link in ACP View Rep Comments
• 3164 - Who's online problem
• 3158 - Copy thread issues
• 3179 - Who's online problem - 2
• 3127 - Indexing Inefficiency
• 3172 - Style Issue Upon Registration
• 3184 - Leave email field
• 3149 - Each time you Preview, you lose a little more of your message
• 3163 - Memberlist Search member then change sort order give wrong result
• 3188 - List Visitors in the Last 24 Hours show lastvisit day
• 3189 - E-mail support for .museum TLD
• 3182 - Parent E-Mail Bug
• 3198 - Uncached template: modifysignature
• 3209 - Moderators now shown in ACP/Forum Manager (Single mode)
• 3203 - Search Users from ACP bug
• 3215 - buildpostcache doesn't work properly
• 3219 - Invalid XHTML
• 3169 - Renaming using does not rename thread starter
• 3221 - Adding a Poll for admins / mods shouldn't expire
• 3193 - Date shown in navbar after event submission is wrong
• 3262 - View Reputation Comments
• 3249 - Announcements one day off
• 3268 - Can't view permissions through forum manager
• 3264 - Wrong links in modcp/banning.php
• 3276 - Images with a width of 1px cause database error
• 3283 - FAQ searching
• 3287 - Postcount Problem with Deleting Forum
• 3115 - running install.php, catching blank page
• 3303 - Partial "Rebuild Search Index" doesn't stop correctly
• 3312 - 'alt3' CSS Class
• 3314 - Image Error in language editing
• 3328 - Wrong text in admincp/statistics
• 3326 - Problems with Memberlist searching when Advanced Search is turned off
• 3348 - Problem with searching for a user in the Mod CP
• 3361 - faq.php unchecked do variable
• 3360 - Forum Links without permissions
• 3351 - Possibility to use every function in a template condition
• 3510 - Two deletions of the same thread will cause database error
• 3365 - "Edited by" shows for admin if user gave reason.
• 3382 - referrerid cookie in register.php
• 3383 - Registration problem with custom field
• 3392 - No sanitization of poststarttime
• 3388 - Existing Searches ignored - Search always rebuilt!
• 3393 - Error handling on save smilies
• 3137 - Error with changing an users avatar via admin cp
• 3427 - Expired password reset results in error with PHP5
• 3485 - Add Camino support to WYSIWYG
• 3536 - Spelling error in ranks_modify_text
• 3488 - Unable to resend email if can view forums is set to no
• 3138 - More untranslated text
• 3195 - custom field on user options page
• 3357 - Problem with "empty" unread_x_nav phrase
• 3526 - Hard-coded phrase
• 3523 - calendar url parsing
• 3522 - variable typo
• 3519 - "Undefined" randomly appearing in posts
• 3512 - external.php fails to check if a password is required for a forum
• 3507 - admincp/user.php -> pruneusers
• 3477 - Subforum (xx Viewing) problem
• 3483 - User Permission Bug
• 3447 - Apache 2 version isn't displayed
• 3505 - Installer does not guess at port for forum/home page URL
• 3334 - $vbphrase[to_delete_a_folder] seems not to be filled
• 3120 - Helptext for profile fields
• 3140 - $vbphrase[terrible] is in the wrong category
• 3161 - $vbphrase[alignment] does not display in vBulletin options
• 3175 - Missing form action attribute
• 3159 - Phrase closed_thread missing in showthread
• 3128 - Quote on a post shown as unread
• 3200 - Some bug in PM
• 3250 - Missing help info for FAQ manager varname
• 3252 - Sentence in the MSN popup
• 3313 - Typo in a phrase
• 3318 - problems with phpinclude_start template
• 3297 - Edit Post Access Keys
• 3322 - Phrase typo
• 3223 - Password History does not do anything
• 3288 - Super Trivial -- Help File...
• 3298 - When drawing poll result bars, language direction not taken into account
• 3325 - Default Time Zone Offset has no effect
• 3404 - Typo in functions_image.php
• 3391 - Different Thread Ratings shown in showthread.php & forumdisplay.php
• 3201 - Failure to edit avatars within AdminCP
• 3338 - Activation error
• 3374 - Combination Of Characters Not Allowing Login
• 3411 - Javascript error in css.php
• 3447 - Apache 2 version isn't displayed
• 3455 - Physical delete a thread does not remove records for "soft deleted posts" inside
• 3202 - Activation Letter and spam
• 3213 - Sort by Last Visit affected by Invisible Mode
• 3237 - Html entity value of space isn't detected
• 3332 - Error when renaming a template when the new name already exists
• 3180 - bbcode manager sql error
• 3352 - Poll Maximum Options
• 3353 - email vbcode not in vbcode list
• 3286 - Opera Search Display Error
• 3225 - Show Default Post Icon description incorrect
• 3379 - SQL Injection in Authorize.net callback code
• 3337 - Add user to your *nothing* list
• 3116 - translating the sort order submit button
• 3240 - Members list not sorting by reputation
• 3405 - Extra htmlspecialchars() on search string display for phrase search

[Kier]

newpoll
If there is no maximum number of options, don't display text saying there is.
Requires revert? No.

help_bbcodes
Added [ email] BB code documention.
Requires revert? No.

search_results
Changed all instances of colspan="20" to colspan="7" for Opera.
Requires revert? No.

modifylist_adduser
Altered the template to use slightly different phrases.
Requires revert? No.

FORUMDISPLAY
Removed the fixed width settings from the thread controls at the bottom of the page so that translated words that are longer than the specified width are displayed properly.
Requires revert? No.

SHOWTHREAD_SHOWPOST
Change <form> to <form action="showpost.php">
Requires revert? No.

pm_newpm
Made the changes listed in Freddie's post here.
Requires revert? No

phpinclude_start
Changed the instructional comments
Requires revert? No

editpost
Changed accesskey for Delete button from 's' to 'd'
Requires revert? No

pollresult
Changes poll bar image references to account for right-to-left languages also.
Requires revert? Only if you use a rtl language.

userfield_select
Consitency with other select fields
Requires revert: Yes if desired

[Mike Sullivan]

• /
  • announcement.php
  • calendar.php
  • editpost.php
  • external.php
  • faq.php
  • forumdisplay.php
  • global.php
  • memberlist.php
  • newreply.php
  • newthread.php
  • poll.php
  • postings.php
  • private.php
  • profile.php
  • register.php
  • search.php
  • showgroups.php
  • showthread.php
  • usernote.php
• /admincp/
  
  • adminreputation.php
  • bbcode.php
  • css.php
  • forum.php
  • forumpermission.php
  • image.php
  • index.php
  • misc.php
  • stats.php
  • template.php
  • user.php
  • usergroup.php
  • usertools.php
• /archive/
  
  • global.php
  • index.php
• /clientscript/
  
  • vbulletin_stdedit.js
  • vbulletin_templatemgr.js
• /cpstyles/vBulletin_3_Manual/ - New!
• /includes/
  
  • adminfunctions.php
  • adminfunctions_language.php
  • adminfunctions_template.php
  • functions.php
  • functions_databuild.php
  • functions_editor.php
  • functions_login.php
  • functions_newpost.php
  • functions_online.php
  • functions_wysiwyg.php
  • init.php
  • sessions.php
  • vbulletin_credits.php
• /modcp/
  
  • moderate.php
  • user.php
• /subscriptions/
  
  • authorize.php

[Kier]

To discuss this release, please use this thread.

[Kier]

It has come to our attention that one of the javascript files in vBulletin 3.0.4 has a problem.

If you downloaded vBulletin 3.0.4 before the date of this post, you are affected. You may patch the problem by downloading the file attached to this message, unzipping it and uploading it to your clientscript directory, overwriting the existing file.

If you have not already downloaded vBulletin 3.0.4 you can ignore this message, as the members' area package has been updated.