vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 6 Released

*vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 6* *THIS IS BETA SOFTWARE.* *IT IS UNSUPPORTED.* If you are not fully at home with backing-up and restoring your forum, dealing with bugs and regular upgrades, DO NOT INSTALL THIS BETA VERSION Although we had hoped to bring you the first Release Candidate at this stage, we have added some new functionality to 3.7 and as a result, must do another beta release. This is Beta 6. Customers running older beta versions of vBulletin 3.7.0 should upgrade as soon as possible, to ensure that any known problems are eliminated. *Social Group Moderation*Users can now create social groups with content hidden until moderation. Therefore, it seemed logical that it should be possible for those users to act as moderators for content within their own groups. Beta 6 sees a new permission added which can allow just that. *Album Picture Moderation*It is now possible to force all images uploaded to enter the moderation queue before they are displayed to other visitors. *More Social Group Options*This functionality has been extended with new group options including: * Enable/disable images * Enable/disable messages * 'Users must join to see content' now completely hides content including image thumbnails *Visitor Message / Social Group Message / Picture Comment BBCode Limits*While previously these were hard-coded, administrators now have the option to define exactly which bbcode tags are available for each of the three new message types. *Visitor Message Privacy*Users can now specify that only their contacts can view and post to their visitor messages section. It is also possible for users to completely disable visitor messages on their own profile. *Minified Javascript Files*In order to minimize the download footprint of the vBulletin Javascript files, these are now distributed in 'minified' (compressed) form when a package is downloaded from the Members' Area. The uncompressed versions are still available as a download option should people want them for modification purposes etc. *Significance of a Beta Release* This is beta software. If you are not fully at home with backing-up and restoring your forum, dealing with bugs and regular upgrades, do not install this beta version. Customers should bear in mind that this is a public beta, not a certified 'stable' release so the following caveats apply: * Beta software is unsupported and you install beta versions at your own risk. * Some minor bugs remain unresolved at this time, so beta software should not be on production sites. * You should always back up your database fully before attempting to install beta software. * If you choose to install this version, you should be aware that we plan to release new beta versions in rapid succession as bugs are fixed and holes are plugged. Do not install this beta version if you are not willing or able to keep up-to-date with new releases. * The ImpEx import system does not support the 3.7 code yet, and will not support it until the release of 3.7.0 (stable).

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lol at this pace we won't see vBulletin 4 until 2010

i thought rc1 was next?

Yes, it was planned to be. However, the developers added a few nice features for more control over things such as visitor messages. It's beta, therefore they can add new features, or rewrite something again from scratch.

Regards Jason

At least beta is running fine of my board, gives me a one up on some sites. =)

I upgraded with no issue's and was painless. I really hope this is the last beta release.

I requested that a feature was added -- and it was put into BETA 6

This is BBcode url for album pictures.

Regards Jason

Originally Posted by Jason Amison

I requested that a feature was added -- and it was put into BETA 6

This is BBcode url for album pictures.

Regards Jason

i believe that feature was included with beta 5

No, it wasn't.

It was put into BETA 6.

Regards Jason

Beta 6 caused me only 1 issues (Beta 6 + FireFox)

all fixed.

can't wait for the stable release

yeah im looking forward to the stable release. I would like to know how progress is going on this next major release with vbseo as well tho. Because it was meant to be out at xmas.

Originally Posted by hornstar6969

yeah im looking forward to the stable release. I would like to know how progress is going on this next major release with vbseo as well tho. Because it was meant to be out at xmas.

An announcement in this regard will be posted soon.

Originally Posted by Juan Muriente

An announcement in this regard will be posted soon.

Which forum should I subscribe to in order to receive notification when you release this announcement please ?