vBulletin 3.7 - First Look

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....

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

Nice.

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.

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.

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

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..

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

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

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

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

just a word... awesome!

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

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.

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

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.