Software Update: vBulletin 3.0.0 Gold

Many websites have a forum where users can engage in various discussions with each other. To do this in a well-arranged form, a handy piece of software is needed so that you can assign different rights with which the forum can be managed. One of the better forum packages is vBulletin, which is developed for a web server with a PHP environment and a MySQL database.

The vBulletin development team has recently released version 3.0.0 Gold which contains a lot of changes. The release notes therefore look like this:

This is it, the release you’ve all been waiting for: vBulletin 3.0.0, aka vBulletin 3 ‘Gold’. There are 3 noticeable updates from RC4:

There is a large amount of stuff to talk about with this final ‘Gold’ release, but I know that you are itching to go and download the new version and check out the manual, so I’ll cut this short and post again on Monday .

Some of the bugs fixed since RC4:

• Adminpermissions not checked in all files.
• IE 5 displays text files inline instead of downloading.
• Displaying template names in HTML comments causes Javascript error when attaching files.
• Style chooser not displayed in cases when it should be.
• Replacement variables not imported correctly from vB2.
• HTML tags from the WYSIWYG parser are now stripped from [ html] and [ php] tag.
• CSS images broken when vBulletin set to store CSS as files but can’t.
• Attachments not always deleted from the filesystem.
• Email parser now accepts IDN domains.
• Bulk emailer now prevented from potentially executing very large queries.
• Forums not always listed in search engine when they should be.
• Poll results may be displayed with the wrong style.
• Expand/collapse button causes error when used on a forum with no children.
• Announcements shown according to browsing user’s timezone.
• Moderators may not physically delete threads/posts in the moderation queue if they do not have physical delete perms.
• ‘Go Back’ button removed when not usable.
• Thread highlighting incorrect when searching for ‘class’.
• Various phrase and template problems.
• Several WYSIWYG parsing issues.
• Several XSS issues.

[break]Note: the download is only available to registered vBulletin users.