vBulletin 3.6.8 Released

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 (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22080)
22260: Quick Reply causes errors with PHP 5.0.5 (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22260)
22242: Show edited by appearing incorrectly (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22242)
22289: Email activation can lead to the wrong usergroup being selected (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22289)
22667: Suspected file versions identifies addons incorrectly (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22667)
22293: Support for Safari 3.0 on Windows (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=22293)
See other bugs fixed in 3.6... (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?do=issuelist&projectid=6&issuetypeid=bug&appliesversionid=g7&issuestatusid=4)
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. (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/upgrade)

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 (http://www.php.net/index.php#2007-07-13-1) 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 (http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/editconfig) on how to enable 'force_sql_mode'.

Note: We will continue to support PHP 4 in our currently released versions.


more (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=237919)...


(sorry y'all. In my attempt to merge the announcement with our discussion thread, I inadvertently deleted both. So we're starting over :o )

There are quite a few template edits, but only one is mandatory. I requested that they tell us exactly what's changed in the mandatory template, to make it easier to edit, rather than have to revert and do the mod edits all over again.

The non-mandatory template edits are all fairly simple from what I can see. With the exception of the major templates such as navbar, forumhome, postbit/postbit_legacy, UserCP, etc. most of the others you can just revert and go, as they're not normally edited when designing a skin or installing a mod.

The major ones I named above, as well as other, they've explained exactly what they did, for the mostpart, so that they can be fixed manually, rather than have to revert and re-do template edits.

For instance, in the postbit and pb legacy templates, they told you where they added an additional hook, so that you can add it without having to revert.

But wow - ALOT of files changed! :eek:

:faint: More Work UGH! :hide:

God bless Mike Sullivan, he kindly granted my request.

Here are the changes to the Showthread template, which is the only mandatory template edit.


Find the <div class="panel">...</div> section (make sure you find the corresponding </div>) and use this:

<div class="panel">
<div align="$stylevar[left]" style="max-width:$stylevar[formwidth]; width:auto !important; width:$stylevar[formwidth]">
<div class="smallfont">$vbphrase[message]:</div>
<div id="$editorid" class="vBulletin_editor">$messagearea</div>

<fieldset class="fieldset" style="margin:$stylevar[formspacer]px 0px 0px 0px">
<legend>$vbphrase[options]</legend>
<div style="padding:$stylevar[formspacer]px">
<if condition="$bbuserinfo['signature']">
<div style="float:$stylevar[right]"><label for="cb_signature"><input type="checkbox" name="signature" value="1" id="cb_signature" tabindex="5" checked="checked" />$vbphrase[show_your_signature]</label></div>
</if>
<label for="qr_quickreply"><input type="checkbox" name="quickreply" value="1" id="qr_quickreply" accesskey="w" tabindex="4" />$vbphrase[quote_message_in_reply]</label>
</div>
</fieldset>
</div>
</div>

Thanks for all the help and guidance here, Peggy. This will certainly make my efforts more efficient and effective. Thanks for taking the time to do the due-diligence! :)

I feared this day. My first installation was 3.6.7 and I've added a lot of hacks.

Am I going to need to install all the themes and hacks again?

EDIT - May it be an idea to wait until the hacks are updated first?

I feared this day. My first installation was 3.6.7 and I've added a lot of hacks.

Am I going to need to install all the themes and hacks again?

EDIT - May it be an idea to wait until the hacks are updated first?
Its not a critical update as far as i can tell, its just bug fixes....i didnt see a need to upgrade unless you plan on using vblog.

Most of the newer hacks have very little MANUAL edits, so that shouldnt be a big problem. The problem is some of the template edits that will conflict with your skin edits.....thats the tedious part.

Ugh. I just finished the fallout from the 3.6.7 upgrade. Here we go again! :)

-Raymond

I feared this day. My first installation was 3.6.7 and I've added a lot of hacks.

Am I going to need to install all the themes and hacks again?

EDIT - May it be an idea to wait until the hacks are updated first?

Ugh. I just finished the fallout from the 3.6.7 upgrade. Here we go again! :)

-Raymond
Oh c'mon y'all. If you read my posts above, there's really nothing to worry about. There's only one mandatory template revert/edit. And it's not even necessary to revert and re-apply the edits - just do the edit in post #4 and you're done!

All of the non-mandatory edits couldn't be any easier.

Someone said it's not necessary to do this upgrade unless you're going to use the vBlog.
Not so. There are numerous bug fixes in this upgrade. If your forum hasn't been affected by any bugs, then you are among the very few who haven't.

I must have not used the correct smiley to imply funny/sarcasm.

Yeah, my brain went thud but it was happy by the end of the sentence.

I'm picking up my ball and taking it over to the other 3.6.8 release thread (http://www.vbulletin-faq.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9731)! :p

-Raymond

LOL it's not any better over there!


and I knew you were kidding, silly man.