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Host Factory
May 7th, 2008, 10:47
it was mention in another thread (i think, a few month ago), is FWS upgrading to VB 3.7
Jan
May 7th, 2008, 16:39
Maybe one day. No great rush :)
Host Factory
May 7th, 2008, 17:59
just wanted to know, its been a REALLY boring day
Dynash
May 7th, 2008, 18:01
The only reason why i would say yes to the upgrade, is the security issue, i can't remember what it was, but it shows on the admin panel when you login. Telling you to upgrade to the latest version.

other than that, it's nothing special, only new useful thing they put in was the notice's.
stuffradio
May 7th, 2008, 19:30
If I remember correctly the latest upgrade was just to give the forum more of a social network feeling.
Dynash
May 7th, 2008, 20:16
Yeah, it has that, personally i hate that.
the profile template looks horrid but anyway, check here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=268833

it's their Gold release, so that's why they are saying upgrade. There was a security error somewhere though.

i just went and checked the news in the ACP, here is what it is:


A recently-discovered CSRF (cross-site request forgery) vulnerability in vBulletin has required the release of a new version of vBulletin. vBulletin 3.6.10 contains various bug fixes back-ported from vBulletin 3.7.0 but most importantly, includes the fix for the CSRF problem.

The vulnerability potentially allows an administrator to be lured to a third party site that could submit a form on their behalf and without their knowledge, with the potential to damage the forum of which the targeted person is an administrator. Actions performed within the Admin Control Panel are NOT vulnerable to this attack vector and are unaffected by the CSRF vulnerability.

We recommend that all customers running versions of vBulletin older than 3.6.10 upgrade as soon as possible. Those running pre-release versions of vBulletin 3.7.0 should upgrade to the newly-released 3.7.0 Release Candidate 4, which also contains the security fix.
Jan
May 7th, 2008, 21:32
Yeah I see that every time I login too and I am sure Peo does too :p
BucksToHost
May 29th, 2008, 10:39
Hi there!

Im just wondering to know how long do you guys take to "accept" a topic to show on your forum? I mean, Im new to here and as I read your forum rules it says you moderate new topics of new members to check that is not a spam bot.

Well, I'll be waiting ;)

Regards
Patrick
June 1st, 2008, 16:19
vBulletin 3.7.1 is out now :)

"Four weeks after the 'gold' release of vBulletin 3.7.0, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd. has now released vBulletin 3.7.1, a maintenance release containing the results of the first round of bug fixes and tweaks for the 3.7.x series."
Skylar
June 4th, 2008, 12:40
So have we decided not to upgrade to 3.7?? vBulletin's 3.7 looks awesome, I have used it since beta and have had no issues with it. You really should upgrade to it, I think it would be a HUGE improvement :)


Thats just me though


Comments?
Dynash
June 4th, 2008, 13:08
Eh, I don't like the Social networking thing, or the groups.
It could have been better, if anything they should have released it as a different product or as an official addon, so vB would stay simple, and not overly packed and make it kind of useless for sites like this.

Isn't it 3.7.1 now anyway?
I'm sure they released an update
Skylar
June 4th, 2008, 13:15
ya 3.7.1 -- was some patch updates.


I agree as a seperate addon. You can disable those addon bits.
Jan
June 4th, 2008, 17:30
How many plugins did you have installed before the upgrade? And how many users do you have ;)
Skylar
June 5th, 2008, 12:43
Well depends on the addons, but most, if not all either (a) work flawlessly with 3.7, or (b) have updates.

Users shouldn't matter, as nothing in that aspect actually changed.


If you guys don't want to upgrade to 3.7, why not upgrade to 3.6.8 -- BUG fixes after all.
Peo
June 5th, 2008, 14:04
We will upgrade soon. I've just been very busy over the last couple of weeks and Todd is busy too right now.
AMC
June 5th, 2008, 14:06
Sorry skylar - not quite true, Ive written a few modifications for vB, 4 of which dont work with 3.7 - they have completely overhauled the template structure for certain pages. I could update them, but I dont release them so I see little point.

Anyway, I can't see that fws runs a huge number of modifications so I dont really see the problem. If it were wht it would be a different matter.
JohnN
June 5th, 2008, 14:32
I guess the issue is membership size, there might be optimization modifications we can't see. I'd suggest downloaded the database and doing a local trial run to straighten things out:)
Patrick
June 5th, 2008, 15:20
If you guys don't want to upgrade to 3.7, why not upgrade to 3.6.8 -- BUG fixes after all.

It isn't as easy as a five minute upgrade when you have 80,000 members and almost a million posts.
Dynash
June 5th, 2008, 16:37
It isn't as easy as a five minute upgrade when you have 80,000 members and almost a million posts.

localhost, as stated above your post.
Darknight
June 5th, 2008, 16:44
I am sure they run it on a test server first before putting it live...
Something 99% of large forums admins would do..
Skylar
June 5th, 2008, 18:01
It isn't as easy as a five minute upgrade when you have 80,000 members and almost a million posts.

And that would be why? I have done a few dozen upgrades.. Its technically LESS than 5 minutes as all you do is upload the files and overwrite the old ones, and click "Continue" on the upgrade promt. Its really not that much work.

I agree though, doing it localhost first is a better idea.