vBulletin Announcements

vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 15 is NOW AVAILABLE for license holders to download. Prospective customers may preview vB5 Connect at www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/. The vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 15 feedback thread for licensed customers is HERE. We use your feedback to improve vBulletin. Beta 15 addresses 138 issues. As usual, we recommend you not utilize vBulletin Betas for live sites. (Note: As with all Beta releases, no phone or ticket support will be provided for Beta 15. However, customers purchasing a vBulletin 5 Connect license will receive 30 days of free ticket support - with a start date commencing upon the Gold release.) VBV-5311 Searching based on date set to one day doesn't work VBV-5127 Allow API clients to pass custom JSON...

vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 14 is NOW AVAILABLE for license holders to download. Prospective customers may preview vB5 Connect at www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/. The vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 14 feedback thread for licensed customers is HERE. We greatly appreciate your feedback, and use it for future improvements. Beta 14 addresses 119 issues. Bug fixes include a mix of performance, installation, permissions, and UI improvements. Please note Beta 14 has a serious issue impacting Blogs on upgrade. As usual, we recommend not utilizing vBulletin Betas for live sites. (Note: As with all beta releases, we’re unable to provide phone or ticket support for Beta 14. Customers purchasing a vBulletin 5 Connect license receive 30 days of free ticket...

vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 13 is now available for customers to download and for prospective customers to preview at www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/. The feedback thread on vBulletin 5 Connect beta 13 for our licensed customers is here. We are continuing to make significant progress in our beta program. Beta 13 includes fixes to 112 issues. Beta 13 includes a variety of performance fixes, with many additional performance improvements coming shortly. Additionally, beta 13 fixes a wide variety of bugs including ones with Site Builder, the activity stream and the upgrade process. A large number of the fixes in beta 13 are in response to feedback we have received from many of you who have been testing the previous betas. This input is...

vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 11 is NOW AVAILABLE for download. The feedback thread for the 5 Connect Beta 11 release is HERE for our licensed customers. We're happy to announce that vBulletin 5 Connect Beta 11 is now available for customers to download and for prospective customers to preview at www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/. The feedback we have received on Beta 10 has been enormously helpful in guiding our work on the product. Beta 11 fixes 119 issues (detailed below), and many of these were identified by our alpha testers and demo site visitors -- Thank you for this input! We are thrilled for this feedback, please keep filing those JIRA tickets. Beta 11 also includes some performance improvements, and we've got many more optimizations...

We are pleased to announce the launch of vBulletin 5 Connect beta today, which is available both as a free live demo and as a download for those purchasing the vBulletin 5 Connect license. The public demo of vBulletin 5 Connect is available at: https://www.vbulletin.com/vb5demo/ We're making this beta version of vBulletin 5 Connect available now for sites interested in exploring this early version of the software, to start work on styling, plug-ins, etc. While this beta version can be used on new sites, some functionality and content of existing sites won't yet be ported over. As such it may be advisable to upgrade sites to this beta version in a staging environment only and not in production. As we've previously announced, the...

As we move towards a new generation of vBulletin, it is necessary to re-evaluate the forum structure on this site. Over the years with numerous version releases, it has become quite complex and entangled with multiple archives and forums for version support. In order to facilitate a smooth transition and to assure we provide the best support for active versions of the software, I am closing all support forums for vBulletin 3.7 and earlier to new posts. We will maintain these forums indefinitely as archives of information. All of these versions are end of life and no longer supported with bug fixes or security patches. The multiple forums for these legacy versions and products are being consolidated into a single forum per...

A recent vBulletin report indicated that there was a potential XSS exploit vector involving the new Activity Stream. Once the cause of the issue was isolated, code changes were made to eliminate the reported threat. This issue affects ONLY vBulletin 4.2 (Suite & Forum). A patch has been issued for vBulletin 4.2. To improve the security of your vBulletin 4 installation, please download the patch from the members area of vBulletin: Please Log In The standard upgrade process for a patch level release is: Download the patch for the version of vBulletin you're currently running fromhttps://members.vbulletin.com/patches.php. Extract the vBulletin patch files from the zip file. Upload the patch files to your server, overwriting the old...