vBulletin 3.7 - First Look

DTV · #1 11-23-2007, 12:27 PM

It's that time again! Today, the vBulletin development team is proud to unveil for the first time the forthcoming vBulletin version: 3.7.0.

vBulletin 3.7.0 contains a plethora of new features, many of which have been long requested by users and customers, while other new features will come as a surprise to everyone. 3.7.0 is slated to be the final major release of the vBulletin 3.x series before all forum development efforts are switched over to vBulletin 4.x, after which 3.x will receive only bug fix releases.

In terms of timescales, the plan is to upgrade vBulletin.com to run on vBulletin 3.7.0 on Monday (November 26th) and to let it run for a few days in order to get some feedback and bug reports before releasing the first public beta.

So, to the important bit: what's new in vBulletin 3.7?

Answer: Lots. But here, in no particular order, are some highlights... MORE

Includes:

Inline Spam Management and Prevention Tools
Thread Tagging
Thread Prefixes
Reciprocal Friendships Between Users
Public Messaging
User Picture Galleries
User-Created Social Groups
New Member Profile Page
Member Customization of Profile Page
Inline Editing of Profile Field Values
Attachment Viewing Lightbox
Post Edit History
Inline Moderation Enhanced Authentication
Navbar Notices
New Human Verification Systems
User Change History
Social Bookmarking of Threads
And More....

Keith Cohen · #2 11-23-2007, 12:30 PM

Looks like they have also built in the "Welcome Header" mod, on steroids, which is fully customizable.

Nice.

DTV · #3 11-23-2007, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Keith Cohen

Looks like they have also built in the "Welcome Header" mod, on steroids, which if fully customizable.

Nice.

I agree.

A lot of the new additions are looking "Sweet" & I for one will be looking forward to trying it out upon the beta being released. vBulletin 4.0 will then become the main focus of the developers & if the ending of vBulletin shows us anything, it shows that we should expect many great things in vBulletin 4.0 - in a year or a little more.

Dave Hybrid · #4 11-23-2007, 12:45 PM

I think turning member profiles into a facebook like format is a very good idea.

Might have to start indexing them again as they will actually have some content.

Mike · #5 11-23-2007, 01:46 PM

Very excited to see this rolling out. Many much needed features being released with 3.7

Jelmer · #6 11-23-2007, 02:32 PM

It looks like a great update so far, it's obvious that many of the new features are basically "copied" from existing mods, but I'm pretty sure they have better performance and integration since the vbulletin team is professional and most of the mods are done by hobbyists.

I wonder if and how profile pages are integrated with blogs for example, since they're quite directly linked to each other in my opinion..

Joe Ward · #7 11-23-2007, 03:02 PM

Awesome. Yet another great offering from the vBulletin team. Can't wait to check it out.

jbartle · #8 11-23-2007, 04:40 PM

This is so awesome! I can't wait for it to release

Michael Biddle · #9 11-23-2007, 05:57 PM

I seen this earlier. A HUGE step for the vbulletin world. Great job!

Hoffi · #10 11-23-2007, 07:57 PM

That's a really great and big AddOn and real an Announcement just in Time for me.

Elmer · #11 11-23-2007, 08:26 PM

just a word... awesome!

Maksa · #12 11-23-2007, 11:40 PM

it's fantastic wanted to upgrade as soon as they launch... but does VBSEO support it?

Keith Cohen · #13 11-23-2007, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maksa

it's fantastic wanted to upgrade as soon as they launch... but does VBSEO support it?

How can we fully sypport it when it hasn't even been released in BETA form yet?

I don't forsee any issues with it working, however, a new vBSEO release would be required to support rewriting of some of the new features most likely.

Maksa · #14 11-24-2007, 12:00 AM

very true... but i thought u people may have copy of VB 3.7

Scott-Mc · #15 11-24-2007, 05:15 AM

Looking forward to it myself, will be interesting to see the spam management tools in action and if they will have to be adapted within a few months of it's release.