vBulletin Blog 1.0.0 Released

Jelsoft is pleased to announce that the next vBulletin add-on product, vBulletin Blog, is now available to purchase from the online order system.

About vBulletin 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.

Fast Start
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.

Fully-Featured
It is a feature-rich blog application, with support for fully formatted WYSIWYG posts, attachments, comments, trackbacks and pingbacks, draft posts and categories, as well as seamless integration with the overall vBulletin system.

Blog Home Page
Available via a single click from any vBulletin page, the blog home page aggregates activity from all member blogs into a single page – with information about the most recent and highest rated blog posts, recent comments, a featured blog post (selected by the administrator or at random), full support for browsing posts by date and overall blogging statistics.

Syndication and Subscriptions
Site wide and per-blog RSS feeds allow syndication to external readers, and full support for vBulletin subscriptions enables users to join their favorite blogs and receive regular email updates.

Blog Control Panel
The Blog Control Panel empowers members to control every aspect of their blogs, from permission controls (who has access to view and comment on the blog), to full management of blog categories, draft posts, trackbacks/pingbacks and subscriptions. Blog owners also have the ability to moderate comments on their own blog.

More information:

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

Note that to install the Blog, you must be running vBulletin 3.6.8 or newer!

Pricing and Ordering

vBulletin Blog is priced at $50, which includes one year of software updates. The renewal fee for an additional year of updates is $20.

Existing customers with active vBulletin licenses can purchase vBulletin Blog immediately via the members' area.

(Note: you will need to log in using your existing vBulletin customer number and password)

New customers can purchase vBulletin Blog via the online order form - a vBulletin license must first be added into the order as per the directions on the first page. Go to the order form now!

Please note that by running the Blog and vBulletin, you agree to adhere to our license agreement. Review our updated agreement (with provisions for the Blog).

Suggestions and Questions

We have created several forums for discussion of the Blog:

• Blog Suggestions and Feedback
• Blog 'How Do I' Questions
• Blog Troubleshooting and Problems

You may also submit any questions you have via the support ticket system!

Thanks!

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our beta testers for assisting in the final stages of the development of the Blog, and everyone else who has provided feedback and suggestions via the vBulletin community forums. We hope that you enjoy our new addition to the family, and we thank you for your continuing support of vBulletin.

All the best,

The vBulletin Development Team

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vBulletin Project Tools 1.0.1 Released

vBulletin Project Tools 1.0.1 is a maintenance release to our first vBulletin add-on. It contains a number of bug fixes since the release of 1.0.0 a month ago.

Some of the bugs fixed include:

• 22557 - "Overview: Timeline Entries" setting overrides "Project View: Timeline Entries" setting when set to 0
• 22458 - "Can View Others' Issues" permission unnecessarily required for an issue type to be visible
• 22460 - Uploading an attachment causes quick reply text to be lost without a warning
• 22549 - Page navigation touches issue list table in Opera
• 22700 - Project counters not rebuilt when moving an issue to a different project
• 22422 - "Magic selects" placed incorrectly in Opera

See a full list of bugs fixed between Project Tools 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

Additionally, if you are using vBulletin 3.6.8, projects shown on the forum list will be shown in the subforum list when necessary.

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.

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

Note that to install Project Tools, you must be running vBulletin 3.6.6 or newer!

Pricing and Ordering

Project Tools is priced at $50, which includes one year of software updates. The renewal fee for an additional year of updates is $20. Existing customers with active vBulletin licenses can purchase Project Tools immediately via the members' area.

vBulletin 3.6.6 or newer is required to install Project Tools.

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vBulletin Blog Running on vBulletin.com

Have you noticed the Blogs link up there in the navbar?

The development of the vBulletin blogging product has progressed to the point where we have installed it onto vBulletin.com's forum for the use of all licensed registered visitors, in order to receive feedback and bug reports etc.

Currently we are running only the blogging component, not the social networking part, which needs further work before being ready for deployment here.

Please feel free to blog away with the tools at your disposal, and make use of trackback and/or pingback to link your blog at vb.com to blogs elsewhere - this is one of the primary things we'd like to test on a larger scale here on vbulletin.com.

Before you start blogging, you may want to add a name and description to your blog. This can be done via your Blog Control Panel, a link to which can be found on every blog page, or in the list of links from your User Control Panel. It would probably also be useful to set your default blogging options and create some blog categories, the forms for which are also in the Blog Control Panel.

We hope you enjoy exploring vBulletin's new Blog systems and we look forward to receiving your feedback.

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vBulletin 3.6.8

vBulletin 3.6.8 is a maintenance release to improve the stability of vBulletin as well as providing required compatibility for the vBulletin Blog addon. The Blog therefore will require 3.6.8 as a minimum to function.

Changed files and mandatory template changes are listed below.

We have also fixed various bugs since vBulletin 3.6.7 was released, these fixes include:

• 22080: Internet Explorer locks up on forumhome
• 22260: Quick Reply causes errors with PHP 5.0.5
• 22242: Show edited by appearing incorrectly
• 22289: Email activation can lead to the wrong usergroup being selected
• 22667: Suspected file versions identifies addons incorrectly
• 22293: Support for Safari 3.0 on Windows
• See other bugs fixed in 3.6...

Upgrading from Previous Versions

3.6.8 is a maintenance release and we recommend that all customers upgrade to benefit from many bug fixes and stability improvements.

No patch or plugin is available to bring previous versions up to 3.6.8 without a full upgrade, as the various changes to implement all the bug fixes represent a large number of changes. To get the fixes from 3.6.8 onto your own board, you must perform a full upgrade.

Full instructions for upgrading vBulletin are available here.

PHP and MySQL Requirements

Please note that vBulletin 3.6.x requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

End of Life for PHP 4 announced

The PHP group recently announced that support for PHP 4 will end on December 31st, this means there will be no security updates or bug fixes for PHP 4 after this point. We seriously recommend that you consider upgrading to the latest version of PHP (5.2.3) and MySQL (5.0.45). vBulletin 3.6.8 supports both of these 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 our currently released versions.

Download vBulletin 3.6.8

As usual, vBulletin 3.6.8 is available for all customers with valid, active licenses to download from the vBulletin Members' Area.

vBulletin Members Area

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Dear vBulletin customers,

We are pleased to announce that Jelsoft Enterprises Limited has been acquired by Internet Brands, Inc., a leading provider of automotive, travel and home-related sites and communities.

As part of a larger organisation, with more than 500 employees, Jelsoft has access to additional resources, support and business expertise which will ensure that we can continue to grow and flourish. Products will continue to be actively developed and fully supported, and as time goes on you will begin to see noticeable changes and improvements that are made possible by being part of a larger organisation.

Internet Brands' intention is to focus on improving what we are doing at the moment, and that means significant investment in our software development, customer service and sales and marketing processes. Internet Brands is willing, able and ready to invest heavily in Jelsoft, not only to continue to offer the same great products to our existing market, but also to empower us to enter new markets and find new audiences for our products and services.

The day-to-day management of Jelsoft will continue largely unchanged. I will continue as Managing Director and CEO of Jelsoft, working alongside the executive team at Internet Brands. John Percival, co-founder of vBulletin, will be taking this opportunity to pursue other interests, and I’m sure you will join me in wishing him well and every success in the future.

I'm really excited about this news, and feel strongly that it was a great decision for the company and our customers. Jelsoft has achieved significant success over the last few years, and before we officially move into this new era, I'd like to offer my sincere thanks to all customers who have supported Jelsoft and vBulletin - It is your continuous support and loyalty that has enabled vBulletin to become a market leader in community solutions. Rest assured that, with the help and resources of Internet Brands, we will continue to work hard to produce products that are innovative, feature-rich and forward-looking.

Again, thank you.

All the best,

James Limm, and the Jelsoft team

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vBulletin Project Tools 1.0.0 Released

Jelsoft is pleased to announce that our first vBulletin add-on product, Project Tools, is now available to purchase from the online order system.

About Project Tools

vBulletin 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

Note that to install Project Tools, you must be running vBulletin 3.6.6 or newer!

Pricing and Ordering

Project Tools is priced at $50, which includes one year of software updates. The renewal fee for an additional year of updates is $20.

Existing customers with active vBulletin licenses can purchase Project Tools immediately via the members' area.

(Note: you will need to log in using your existing vBulletin customer number and password)

New customers can purchase Project Tools via the online order form - a vBulletin license must first be added into the order as per the directions on the first page. Go to the order form now!

Please note that by running Project Tools and vBulletin, you agree to adhere to our license agreement. Review our updated agreement (with provisions for Project Tools).

Suggestions and Questions

We have created several forums for discussion of the Project Tools:

• Project Tools Suggestions and Feedback
• Project Tools 'How Do I' Questions
• Project Tools Troubleshooting and Problems

You may also submit any questions you have via the support ticket system!

Thanks!

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank our beta testers for assisting in the final stages of the development of Project Tools, and everyone else who has provided feedback and suggestions via the vBulletin community forums. We hope that you enjoy Project Tools, and we thank you for your continuing support of vBulletin.

All the best,

The vBulletin Development Team

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I am please to officially announce that Andy Huang has joined the vB Support staff.

Andy is studying at Simon Fraser University in BC Canada for a BSc. in Informatics. He has been with vB China for over a year and has extensive backgound and experience with vB going back to version 3.0.

Andy lives in Canada and will help provide extra support for North American timezones and on weekends.

Please join me in welcoming Andy Huang to the vB Support Team.

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vBulletin Blog 1.0.1 Released

vBulletin Blog 1.0.1 is a maintenance release to our second vBulletin add-on. It contains a number of bug fixes since the release of 1.0.0.

Some of the bugs fixed include:

• 23095 - User profile picture doesn't stay in sidebar - There is now a counter update in the blog section of the admincp that will update your profile pictures so they no longer overflow
• 23150 - Super moderators can view IP address
• 23210 - "Physically remove Message" triggers db error 1066
• 23058 - Minimum Rating of 0 can cause 'Division by 0' error
• 23152 - One Blog Moderator sees deleted entries/comments, the other doesn't.

See a full list of bugs fixed between Blog 1.0.0 and 1.0.1

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

Note that to install the Blog, you must be running vBulletin 3.6.8 or newer!

Pricing and Ordering

The Blog is priced at $50, which includes one year of software updates. The renewal fee for an additional year of updates is $20. Existing customers with active vBulletin licenses can purchase the Blog immediately via the members' area.

vBulletin 3.6.8 or newer is required to install the Blog.

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vBulletin 3.6.8 Patch Level 1

This release is a patch to the 3.6.8 to fix a security issue reported to us this morning. Only 3.6.8 is affected by this issue. The only changes in this release are for this security issue.

The changed files are:

• includes/class_bbcode.php
• includes/version_vbulletin.php

There are no template changes.

What is a Patch Level? How does it differ from a full release?

A patch level release contains fixes for only the most critical issues in the previous release. In this case, this means the only changes are to address a security issue.

It is designed to be installed directly over top of your 3.6.8 installation, with no other action. You do not need to run any upgrade scripts.

How to Upgrade
This is not a full upgrade. You do not need to run any upgrade scripts to complete the upgrade.

1. Patch: Download a patch file discussed in this thread and upload them to your web server, overwriting the existing files. The patch is available from the Members' Area patch page or you can find it attached to this thread.
2. Full Package: Alternatively you can download the full package in the vBulletin Members Area and again upload the affected files mentioned in this thread.

If the files have been overwritten properly, your version will be listed as "3.6.8 Patch Level 1" in the administrators' control panel. Your version will still say 3.6.8 on the front-end.

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vBulletin Blog 1.0.2 Released

vBulletin Blog 1.0.2 is a maintenance release to our second vBulletin add-on. It contains a number of bug fixes since the release of 1.0.1.

Some of the bugs fixed include:

• 23307 - People on a user's ignore list may still view their blog when blocked.
• 23274 - Default permissions & privacy options not being applied properly.
• 23323 - Featured entry ignores the viewing user's profile picture permissions, allowing it to always be seen.
• 23335 - Search results counter is wrong.
• 23306 - Cron system is accessing database tables that do not exist.

See a full list of bugs fixed between Blog 1.0.1 and 1.0.2

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

Note that to install the Blog, you must be running vBulletin 3.6.8 or newer!

Pricing and Ordering

The Blog is priced at $50, which includes one year of software updates. The renewal fee for an additional year of updates is $20. Existing customers with active vBulletin licenses can purchase the Blog immediately via the members' area.

vBulletin 3.6.8 or newer is required to install the Blog.


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