Forum Upgrade 21:00PM GMT+1

[Eudemon]

Well we've decided to just let the bull loose in the forum and perform the upgrade to vB 3.7.0. Should go all according to plan but if not, well it won't be fun for anyone.

 

For those of you too lazy to work out the time 9PM UK time is 15mins from now, yeah, yeah you know me, never one for doing things in a normal manner, spontaneity is my middle half near the end name.

 

Oh damn 14mins now. :D

[Baldy]

Sounds good, what happens if it goes wrong, i have no faith in you :D

[Eudemon]

I kill myself and everyone active right now.

[Baldy]

What a way to go, it's been nice knowing you all.

[CarMadMike]

He made a back-up before Baldred, Just for you :P

[Baldy]

yeah i know but this is diablo we're talking about, i know something will go wrong :D

[CarMadMike]

I for one have faith

 

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

 

*jumps overdeck*

[Eudemon]

I have no faith in myself and know it will go wrong, this will mean I won't be upset when it happens.

[Baldy]

See, i know it too, and i help get his morale really low, so if it does work perfectly he'll be thrilled, han wishes you luck as well.

[CarMadMike]

See, i know it too, and i help get his morale really low, so if it does work perfectly he'll be thrilled, han wishes you luck as well.

 

Thats also the theory i use, i sit by the letterbox at 10:40am every morning telling myself the game wont come, so ill be over the moon when it does, but unfortunately it doesnt

[Baldy]

aww, poor cmm, have a cookie.

[Andreas¹]

Hmm, it should be dead now? xD

[Eudemon]

Here goes everything !

[ExplosiveGoats]

I wonder....

[Baldy]

And it's back, welcome back people. (Well it will be when you read this)

[Eudemon]

The upgrade is complete and already I can see some teething issues, the usernames online for example and I think some options from Quicklist have done a runner also.

[Andreas¹]

Woo, we're back!

[CarMadMike]

YAY, i get to have my cookie off baldred at last,

 

Diablo, you probably already know but look at the who is online area, thats one very long username :D

[Baldy]

I can see a few problem's actually.

[Eudemon]

Your User CP is where you will find the core changes, you now have access to your own Profile Page that you can customise and also an album that you can upload your own images too.

 

Attachments have a nice little effect added to them also. Clicking on them will result in the attachment opening in a new window like previous.

[CarMadMike]

Holy cow i want that truck

[Andreas¹]

I havn't seen any problems, just things that changed a little (Like the text in this Quick Reply box is more centered, or how you say it)

And that very long username at the bottom

[CarMadMike]

Heres a full list of whats been changed, I doubt it will be of use to a few people but here you go:

 

 

vBulletin 3.7.0

 

Today, the vBulletin team is proud to declare version 3.7.0 to be our stable, supported release.

 

vBulletin 3.7.0 is available immediately from the Members' Area to all customers with active vBulletin licenses, and will be offered as the primary choice to those making new purchases.

 

This release supercedes the 3.6.x branch as our primary product. vBulletin 3.6.x will continue to be maintained for a limited time, as outlined in the end-of-life announcement posted today. We recommend that all customers with active licenses upgrade to vBulletin 3.7.0.

 

There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.0 over vBulletin 3.6.x, most of which have already been described in the release announcements for the various pre-release versions, and in the First Look thread that was posted at the beginning of the beta process, but here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.

• Inline spam management & prevention
  
• Thread tagging
  
• Search cloud / tag cloud
  
• Thread prefixes
  
• Reciprocal friendships between users
  
• Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
  
• User picture galleries with user comment facility
  
• User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
  
• Extended member profile pages
  
• Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
  
• Inline editing of custom user profile fields
  
• Lightbox viewer for attached images
  
• Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
  
• Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
  
• Notices system for navigation bar
  
• Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
  
• User change history
  
• Social bookmarking integration
  

PHP and MySQL Requirements

 

vBulletin 3.7.0 requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 (These are the same requirements as vBulletin 3.6), but we strongly recommend that all customers run PHP 5.2.5 with APC and MySQL 5.0.51 or later. Major performance benefits can be had by taking the recommended route rather than simply satisfying the required versions.

 

What is a 'Gold' Version?

 

When talking about software, the term 'gold' is not related to the color of the application. Rather, it refers to the practise of burning the final version of a software product to a CD-R so that it can be sent to a large scale CD press for large-scale distribution. It is used to indicate that the code is ready for deployment to customers. The official name of this new version is vBulletin 3.7.0.

 

Installing or Upgrading vBulletin

 

Anyone who has installed or upgraded any version of vBulletin 3 before will be familiar with the process, but for those who are new to the system, the vBulletin manual has all the details for installing and upgrading.

 

Template Changes

 

A large number of templates have been changed when compared with vBulletin 3.6.x. It will be necessary to revert affected customized templates or otherwise carefully integrate the changes into your custom versions or new features and existing functionality will be adversely affected. A complete list of the templates you have customized whose original version has been changed by the 3.7.0 upgrade is available within your Admin Control Panel after the upgrade is complete.

 

Bug Reports

 

As with any software, bugs will appear. If you find a problem that you believe to be a bug, please don't post about it on the forums where the development team may never find your message, but instead use the dedicated bug tracker to make a report that can be tracked through to completion.

 

Before reporting a bug, please ensure you are able to reproduce the problem on a board using a default, uncustomized style with all plugins disabled.

[Baldy]

If people spot any errors or something that doesn't look right then post them here. That way we can get round to fixing them quicker. Thanks.

[CarMadMike]

Also another main thing is, When Putting a Background image for anywhere in your user profile you have to make an album through your profile, upload the picture and get the URL that should be forum.tdu-central.com/whatimage url is, any other url will not work