vBulletin Announcements

Just a quick note to let everyone know that barring any unforeseen issues vB 4.0.1 is currently scheduled to be released on Monday, Jan 11 2010. More...

With the release of vB4 Forums and Publishing Suite please note the following information regarding support for older versions of vB: 3.8.x: Supported and updated for bugs and security fixes. 3.7.x: No longer supported and will only be updated for security fixes. 3.6.x and earlier: These versions are end–of-life and are no longer supported or updated. vBulletin 3.6 and 3.7 are now End-of-Life

An exploit in our input validation has recently been discovered. This could allow a brute force attack to comprise and spoof input data for a given user. To resolve this issue, it is necessary to release a patch level version of the active versions of vBulletin. The upgrade process is the same as previous patch level releases - simply download the patch from the Members Area, extract the files and upload to your webserver, overwriting the existing files. There is no upgrade script required. As with all security-based releases, we recommend that all customers upgrade as soon as possible in order to prevent any potential damage resulting from the flaw being exploited. If you are already running 3.7.6, 3.8.4 or 4.0.0, the process you...

[SIZE=2]The vBulletin team is very excited to announce the availability of vBulletin 4.0 Gold. The release includes vBulletin 4.0 Forums and the all-new vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite. As of today, these are officially supported products that are eligible for both ticket support and phone support. [SIZE=2]What does Gold signify? [SIZE=2]Gold signifies that this version of the software is stable, robust, and ready for production environments, when [SIZE=2]installation best practices[SIZE=2] are followed. See Wayne's article on upgrading: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/conte...-vBulletin-4-0 [SIZE=2]Gold signifies simple forward compatibility with future releases...

The vBulletin team plans to release the vBulletin 4.0 Forums and vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite Gold Release on or before Monday, December 21, 2009. Starting on the date of the Gold release, vBulletin 4.0 Forums and Publishing Suite will become officially supported products. This means that vBulletin 4.0 will be eligible for both ticket support and phone support. As we work toward the Gold release, our goal is to get the best possible product into the hands of our customers. To do this, we’ve made huge investments in development resources and have been maintaining an extremely rigorous scrub schedule, identifying and fixing bugs at an unprecedented rate. Since the release of the first vBulletin 4.0 public beta in mid-November...

[SIZE=2]Today we're announcing the availability of Release Candidate 4 of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite and vBulletin 4.0 Forum. If you have an active vBulletin license, you can download your copy of RC4 from the vBulletin Members Area at: http://members.vbulletin.com[SIZE=2] . You may be wondering why we skipped releasing RC3 after releasing RC2 this past Friday. We started on RC3 last week and launched it on vBulletin.com yesterday. We have already fixed more than 50 bugs since we started RC3; therefore, I wanted to make sure you all had access to the latest build with RC4. There are still two known issues with the RC4 release that are important to be aware of. The fixes for these issues are currently being tested. If these issues...

Today we're announcing the availability of Release Candidate 2 of vBulletin 4.0 Publishing Suite and vBulletin 4.0 Forum. If you have an active vBulletin license, you can download your copy of RC2 from the vBulletin Members Area at: http://members.vbulletin.com . Our original plan was to release RC1 to the community today. However, since releasing Beta 5 and releasing RC1 on vBulletin.com on this past Monday, we have fixed more 250 bugs, including new bugs found in RC1. Therefore, we wanted our customers to have access to the most recent build. There are still two known issues with the RC2 release that are important to be aware of. The fixes for these issues are currently being tested. If these issues are critical to your community's...