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vBulletin 3.8.3

Although it's a little late according to the published release timetable, having been somewhat delayed by the effort being redirected toward preparing vBulletin 4.0 for its debut, vBulletin 3.8.3 is a maintenance version, rounding up all the bugs and issues fixed by the development team since the release of 3.8.2 at the end of March.

Please accept our apologies for the delay in bringing you this potentially final version of vBulletin 3.x. Resources are now almost exclusively dedicated to vBulletin 4.0 and we thank you for your ongoing patience.


Issues resolved by 3.8.3 include the following:

• Date picker in private message filter ignores start of week preference [27516]
• Last post title on profile page allows permission violation [27548]
• Potential for redundant SQL query when searching for posts [27575]
• List of members in social groups has no specified ordering [27636]
• Potential timezone confusion affecting statistics generation and display [27586]
• Inability to search for users with a specified custom field by entering text [27610]

A complete list of the issues resolved by 3.8.3 is available in the Project Tools.

Upgrading from Previous Versions

3.8.3 is a maintenance release. We recommend that all customers running prior versions of vBulletin 3.8 upgrade to benefit from bug fixes and stability improvements.

Full instructions for upgrading vBulletin are available here.


PHP and MySQL Requirements

Please note that vBulletin 3.8.x requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

However, we recommend that vBulletin 3.8.x is run on PHP 5.2.9 with APC (or a similar opcode cache) and MySQL 5.1.32 for best performance and stability.


Download vBulletin 3.8.3

As usual, vBulletin 3.8.3 is available for all customers with valid, active licenses to download from the vBulletin Members' Area.

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As some of you may be aware, since Lynne got promoted to Moderator we have not had any members of our advisors group. Therefore we have recently invited a couple of members to join.

Redlinemotorsports was a former advisor who had to leave for a while, now he is able to return to the site we are delighted to welcome him back.

UKBusinessLive is a relativly new member of vb.org, but since joining has been extremely helpful and we are pleased to welcome him as an advisor also.

Advisors can be spotted by their bold green usernames, and are also listed at the bottom of the staff page.

vBulletin Project Tools 2.0.1

vBulletin Project Tools 2.0.1 is the first maintenance release for the 2.0.x series of the Project Tools. It fixes a number of bugs that were reported since the release of 2.0.0 last year.

We recommend that all Project Tools users upgrade as soon as possible.

Some of the bugs fixed include:

• Editing issue title doesn't update last post info in all cases (26801)
• Database error when searching in certain situations (26958)
• Patch parsing fails if the patch contains an "info" line starting with a \ (26497)
• Order of issue types inconsistent (27411)

See a full list of bugs fixed between Project Tools 2.0.0 and 2.0.1

Note: You must be running vBulletin 3.7.0 or later to install Project Tools 2.0.1!

Upgrading/Installing Project Tools

Upgrades and new installations of the Project Tools follow the same process: upload the files and import the XML. After this, you will see a message that your upgrade or install was successful. For full instructions on how to upgrade or install, please see this manual entry.

Bug Reports

As with any software, bugs will appear. If you find a problem that you believe to be a bug, please don't post about it on the forums where the development team may never find your message, but instead use the dedicated bug tracker to make a report that can be tracked through to completion.

Before reporting a bug, please ensure you are able to reproduce the problem on a board using a default, uncustomized style with all plugins disabled.

About Project Tools

Project Tools is a versatile add-on product that enhances vBulletin with project management functionality, empowering your community members to create projects, contribute to tasks, submit issues and view progress of projects. Seamless integration with vBulletin ensures maximum usability, and an administration suite within the vBulletin control panel allows full customization of projects, issues, tasks and user permissions.

Project Tools is ideal for any community that shares a common goal - from developing software, keeping track of servers, writing a play, exhibiting at a trade show or building a car!

• Find out more about Project Tools and watch a video overview
• View the Project Tools' manual
• See Project Tools in action on the vBulletin.com community forums

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vBulletin Blog 2.0.2 Released

vBulletin Blog 2.0.2 is a maintenance release to our second vBulletin add-on. It contains a number of bug fixes since the release of 2.0.1. This release will work with vBulletin 3.7.4+ and vBulletin 3.8.0+.


Some of the bugs fixed include:

• 27322 - "Blogpost" button in postbit doesn't appear in PHP 4
• 27484 - Users can't moderate trackbacks
• 27282 - Saving draft shows draft image for every entry in Recent Entries
• 27421 - Soft-deleting all blog entires makes the blog "disappear"
• 27331 - Permission problem with "delete record"

See a full list of bugs fixed between Blog 2.0.1 and 2.0.2

Upgrading/Installing the Blog

Upgrades and new installations of the Blog follow the same process: upload the files and import the XML. After this, you will see a message that your upgrade or install was successful. For full instructions on how to upgrade or install, please see this manual entry.

About the Blog

vBulletin Blog is a fully featured blogging add-on that enables community members to create their very own online blogs within vBulletin. Giving members a place to post thoughts, ideas and musings will keep users returning to the community again and again, and advanced administration features allow forum owners and moderators to keep control and integrate Blog into vBulletin’s existing look and feel.


vBulletin Blog makes it simple for community members to create their own space within the community. Getting started is as simple as posting the first message (using the same familiar vBulletin editor). There is no lengthy setup process - blog owners are free to personalise their blog at any time by defining a title and a description that will appear at the top of every blog post.

• Find out more about the Blog
• View the Blog's' manual
• See the Blog in action on the vBulletin.com community forums

vBulletin 3.7.4 or newer is required to install the Blog.

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vBulletin 3.7.6

vBulletin 3.7.6 contains a number of bug fixes, details of which can be found in the bug tracker.

The security fixes included in vBulletin the 3.7.5 PL1 release are also included in vBulletin 3.7.6.


Upgrading from Previous Versions

3.7.6 is a maintenance release. We recommend that all customers running prior versions of vBulletin 3.7 upgrade to benefit from bug fixes and stability improvements.

Full instructions for upgrading vBulletin are available here.


PHP and MySQL Requirements

Please note that vBulletin 3.7.x requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

However, we recommend that vBulletin 3.7.x is run on PHP 5.2.8 with APC (or a similar opcode cache) and MySQL 5.1.30 for best performance and stability.


End of Life for PHP 4

PHP 4 has now reached its end of life. We strongly recommend that customers update their servers to PHP 5.2.8 if they are still running PHP 4. vBulletin 3.7.x supports PHP 5 without any problems, though you may need to disable strict mode for MySQL, see here on how to enable 'force_sql_mode'.

Note: We will continue to support PHP 4 in the vBulletin 3 series.


Download vBulletin 3.7.6

As usual, vBulletin 3.7.6 is available for all customers with valid, active licenses to download from the vBulletin Members' Area.

vBulletin Members Area

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