[vB.com Announcement]

vBulletin 4.2 is NOW AVAILABLE for download. The feedback thread for the 4.2 release is HERE for our licensed customers.

vBulletin 4.2 is a major feature release that delivers user requested functionality to both the vBulletin 4 Suite & Forum products. vBulletin 4.2 contains only feature changes and issue fixes related to those feature changes.

The release contains:

• Activity Stream - VBIV-13946
• Navigation Manager - VBIV-8393 & VBIV-3058
• Members who have Visited Today - VBIV-14582
• Cron-based Batch Email Sending - VBIV-14583
• UserCP Reputation Display - VBIV-14584
• Reputation Notification - VBIV-14585
• User Profile Reputation Display - VBIV-14586
• Who has Read a Thread - VBIV-14587
• Doublepost Prevention - VBIV-14588
• Enhanced Reputation Checks - VBIV-14651
• Updated Readme.
• Integration with Post Release - Company Website

Documentation for each of the new features is available with the launch of 4.2, and can be found - HERE.

Additional Changes since the 4.2 BETA 1 Release:

• VBIV-15129 - Typo in AdminCP help text
• VBIV-15127 - Phrase associated with the wrong product
• VBIV-15126 - Typos in an error message
• VBIV-15122 - Hardcoded "Recent" and "Popular" in activity stream Filter menu
• VBIV-15119 - process_navigation_links hook listed as process_navigation_links_complete in plugin manager
• VBIV-15106 - activitystream_home_beforefetch hook not listed in plugin manager hook options
• VBIV-15102 - Activity stream fail when Forum Component URL is set
• VBIV-14931 - Update readme.txt

vBulletin 4.2 contains a total of 218 new features, projects, bug fixes, hook requests, improvement requests, and feature requests. A full list of these changes can be found - HERE.

Removed Files:

• packages/vbcms/view/page.php

Added Files:

• activity.php
• admincp/navigation.php
• admincp/postrelease_ajax.php
• admincp/postrelease.php
• clientscript/vbulletin_activitystream.js
• images/misc/progress3.gif
• images/site_icons/arrow_readmore.png
• images/site_icons/photo.png
• includes/class_dm_content_read.php
• includes/class_dm_ip_data.php
• includes/cron/activity.php
• includes/cron/mailqueue.php
• includes/xml/cpnav_postrelease.xml
• includes/xml/product-postrelease.xml
• install/includes/class_upgrade_420a1.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_420b1.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_420.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_postrelease.php
• install/vbulletin-navigation.xml
• packages/postrelease
• packages/postrelease/hooks
• packages/postrelease/hooks/cache_templates.php
• packages/postrelease/hooks/forumdisplay_complete.php
• packages/postrelease/hooks/index.html
• packages/postrelease/hooks/misc_start.php
• packages/postrelease/hooks/pr_utility.php
• vb/activitystream
• vb/activitystream/manage.php
• vb/activitystream/popularity
• vb/activitystream/popularity/album
• vb/activitystream/popularity/album/photo.php
• vb/activitystream/popularity/base.php
• vb/activitystream/popularity/blog
• vb/activitystream/popularity/blog/entry.php
• vb/activitystream/popularity/cms
• vb/activitystream/popularity/cms/article.php
• vb/activitystream/popularity/forum
• vb/activitystream/popularity/forum/thread.php
• vb/activitystream/popularity/socialgroup
• vb/activitystream/popularity/socialgroup/photo.php
• vb/activitystream/populate
• vb/activitystream/populate/album
• vb/activitystream/populate/album/album.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/album/comment.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/album/photo.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/base.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/blog
• vb/activitystream/populate/blog/comment.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/blog/entry.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/calendar
• vb/activitystream/populate/calendar/event.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/cms
• vb/activitystream/populate/cms/article.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/cms/comment.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/forum
• vb/activitystream/populate/forum/post.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/forum/thread.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/forum/visitormessage.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/socialgroup
• vb/activitystream/populate/socialgroup/discussion.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/socialgroup/groupmessage.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/socialgroup/group.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/socialgroup/photocomment.php
• vb/activitystream/populate/socialgroup/photo.php
• vb/activitystream/view
• vb/activitystream/view/perm
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/album
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/album/album.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/album/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/album/comment.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/album/photo.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/blog
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/blog/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/blog/comment.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/blog/entry.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/calendar
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/calendar/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/calendar/event.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/cms
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/cms/article.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/cms/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/cms/comment.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/forum
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/forum/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/forum/post.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/forum/thread.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/forum/visitormessage.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup/base.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup/discussion.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup/groupmessage.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup/group.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup/photocomment.php
• vb/activitystream/view/perm/socialgroup/photo.php
• vb/activitystream/view.php

Modified Files:

• admincp/adminpermissions.php
• admincp/attachment.php
• admincp/blog_admin.php
• admincp/cms_admin.php
• admincp/cms_content_admin.php
• admincp/cms_permissions.php
• admincp/email.php
• admincp/forum.php
• admincp/index.php
• admincp/language.php
• admincp/misc.php
• admincp/notice.php
• admincp/phrase.php
• admincp/plugin.php
• admincp/socialgroups.php
• admincp/stylevar.php
• admincp/template.php
• ajax.php
• album.php
• archive/index.php
• assetmanage.php
• attachment.php
• blog.php
• blog_post.php
• blog_usercp.php
• calendar.php
• clientscript/vbulletin_cms_comments.js
• clientscript/vbulletin_cms_management.js
• clientscript/vbulletin_quick_reply.js
• clientscript/vbulletin_textedit.js
• cron.php
• css.php
• forum.php
• forumrunner/include/album.php
• forumrunner/include/get_thread.php
• forumrunner/include/post.php
• forumrunner/push.php
• forumrunner/version.php
• global.php
• group.php
• includes/adminfunctions_language.php
• includes/adminfunctions_notice.php
• includes/adminfunctions_options.php
• includes/adminfunctions.php
• includes/adminfunctions_plugin.php
• includes/adminfunctions_template.php
• includes/api/1/api_cmscategorylist.php
• includes/api/1/api_cmssectionlist.php
• includes/api/1/api_getnewtop.php
• includes/api/1/api_init.php
• includes/api/4/api_getnewtop.php
• includes/api/5/api_init.php
• includes/api/6/api_getnewtop.php
• includes/block/cmsarticles.php
• includes/blog_functions.php
• includes/class_block.php
• includes/class_blog_response.php
• includes/class_bootstrap_framework.php
• includes/class_bootstrap.php
• includes/class_core.php
• includes/class_dm_album.php
• includes/class_dm_attachment.php
• includes/class_dm_blog.php
• includes/class_dm_blog_user.php
• includes/class_dm_discussion.php
• includes/class_dm_event.php
• includes/class_dm_forum.php
• includes/class_dm_groupmessage.php
• includes/class_dm_picturecomment.php
• includes/class_dm_socialgroup.php
• includes/class_dm_threadpost.php
• includes/class_dm_user.php
• includes/class_dm_visitormessage.php
• includes/class_filesystemxml_replace.php
• includes/class_mail.php
• includes/class_postbit.php
• includes/class_profileblock.php
• includes/class_sitemap.php
• includes/class_taggablecontent.php
• includes/class_upgrade_product.php
• includes/class_usercss.php
• includes/config.php.new
• includes/cron/cleanup.php
• includes/cron/dailycleanup.php
• includes/cron/vbcms_cleanup.php
• includes/functions_album.php
• includes/functions_databuild.php
• includes/functions_editor.php
• includes/functions_filesystemxml.php
• includes/functions_newpost.php
• includes/functions_online.php
• includes/functions.php
• includes/functions_picturecomment.php
• includes/functions_reputation.php
• includes/init.php
• includes/vbulletin_credits.php
• includes/xml/bitfield_vbblog.xml
• includes/xml/bitfield_vbulletin.xml
• includes/xml/cpnav_vbulletin.xml
• includes/xml/cssrollup_vbulletin.xml
• includes/xml/hooks_vbulletin.xml
• includes/xml/product-forumrunner.xml
• includes/xml/product-skimlinks.xml
• includes/xml/product-vbblog.xml
• includes/xml/product-vbcms.xml
• index_content.php
• index.php
• infraction.php
• inlinemod.php
• install/cmsdefaultdata/default_data_functions.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_400b1.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_404.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_ajax.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_final.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_forumrunner.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_install.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_skimlinks.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_vbblog.php
• install/includes/class_upgrade_vbcms.php
• install/init.php
• install/mysql-schema.php
• install/upgrade_language_en.xml
• install/upgrade.php
• install/vbulletin-adminhelp.xml
• install/vbulletin-language.xml
• install/vbulletin-mobile-style-blog.xml
• install/vbulletin-mobile-style-cms.xml
• install/vbulletin-mobile-style.xml
• install/vbulletin-settings.xml
• install/vbulletin-style.xml
• install/vbulletin-upgrade.js
• member_inlinemod.php
• member.php
• misc.php
• modcp/moderate.php
• moderation.php
• newreply.php
• packages/vbattach/attach.php
• packages/vbblog/attach/blogentry.php
• packages/vbcms/comments.php
• packages/vbcms/content.php
• packages/vbcms/dm/article.php
• packages/vbcms/dm/widget.php
• packages/vbcms/item/content/article.php
• packages/vbcms/navbar.php
• packages/vbcms/permissions.php
• packages/vbforum/attach/post.php
• packages/vbforum/search/result/thread.php
• picturecomment.php
• picture_inlinemod.php
• poll.php
• postings.php
• private.php
• profile.php
• project.php
• report.php
• reputation.php
• search.php
• showgroups.php
• showpost.php
• showthread.php
• threadtag.php
• usercp.php
• usernote.php
• vb/search/core.php
• vb/search/resultsview.php
• vb/vb.php
• vb/view/navbar.php
• vb/view/page.php
• visitormessage.php

Removed Templates:

• blog_navbar_link
• blog_navbar_whatsnew_link
• usercp_reputationbits
• vbcms_navbar_link
• vbcms_navbar_whatsnew_link

Added Templates:

• activitystream_album_album
• activitystream_album_comment
• activitystream_album_photo
• activitystream_blog_comment
• activitystream_blog_entry
• activitystream_calendar_event
• activitystream_cms_article
• activitystream_cms_comment
• activitystream.css
• activitystream_date_group
• activitystream_forum_post
• activitystream_forum_thread
• activitystream_forum_visitormessage
• activitystream_home
• activitystream_photo_date_bit
• activitystream_socialgroup_discussion
• activitystream_socialgroup_group
• activitystream_socialgroup_groupmessage
• activitystream_socialgroup_photo
• activitystream_socialgroup_photocomment
• memberinfo_block_activity
• memberinfo_block_reputation
• navbar_tabs

Modified Templates:

• FORUMHOME
• member.css
• MEMBERINFO
• navbar
• SHOWTHREAD
• USERCP
• usercp.css
• userprofile.css

Thank you to everyone who has filed bugs in our bug tracker. We sincerely appreciate your assistance. If you come across any bugs in the product, please continue to file them in our tracker.


Thanks for using vBulletin 4!

The vB 4 Dev Team


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