August 18, 2008

vbulletin updates: 3.7.2 Patch Level 2, vb 3.7.3, vb 3.8 and vb4.0

by Brian Turner

Mass email from vbulletin received tonight which announces a new patch (3.7.2 Patch Level 2) for the current build.

In addition, vb 3.7.3 will be released on August 26th.

The patch doesn’t require a complete reinstall, thankfully – just download the patch and upload to your vbulletin forum install, and it should be reasonably simple.

Meanwhile, public plans for vbulletin 3.7.3 are limited so far, but it seems prevention of usernames being used as passwords has been mentioned as a key security feature.

In addition, plans for vb 3.8 have been announced for release later this year, which intends to brush up and polish the social user experience introduced in the 3.7 release. This is expected to be the last 3.x release before vb 4.0.

vbulletin 4.0? Yep – according to Jelsoft, vbulletin 4.0 is already in advanced development, and has a focus on the following areas:

- extensive rewrite of vbulletin code
- more intuitive interface for users and admins
- MVC (model-view-controller) object oriented principles, allowing far greater capabilities in code re-use and extendability, as well as improved caching
- semantic XHTML templates, whose layout can be restyled and edited with CSS

For vbulletin owners out there, it’s always a chore to patch up your forum, but having recently had an old install on a development project compromised, I can certainly attest to the importance of doing so.

Meanwhile, it’s nice to see Jelsoft looking to consolidate on the social features – sure, not always used – but on larger sites definitely a selling point.

And I can only look forward to see what happens with vbulletin 4.0. Maybe they’ll finally get rid of those rounded buttons and have something a little better looking in place. :)

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