vBulletin 3.7.0 Beta 6

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Although we had hoped to bring you the first Release Candidate at this stage, we have added some new functionality to 3.7 and as a result, must do another beta release. This is Beta 6.

Customers running older beta versions of vBulletin 3.7.0 should upgrade as soon as possible, to ensure that any known problems are eliminated.

Social Group Moderation

Users can now create social groups with content hidden until moderation. Therefore, it seemed logical that it should be possible for those users to act as moderators for content within their own groups.

Beta 6 sees a new permission added which can allow just that.

Album Picture Moderation

It is now possible to force all images uploaded to enter the moderation queue before they are displayed to other visitors.

More Social Group Options

This functionality has been extended with new group options including:

• Enable/disable images
• Enable/disable messages
• 'Users must join to see content' now completely hides content including image thumbnails

Visitor Message / Social Group Message / Picture Comment BBCode Limits

While previously these were hard-coded, administrators now have the option to define exactly which bbcode tags are available for each of the three new message types.

Visitor Message Privacy

Users can now specify that only their contacts can view and post to their visitor messages section. It is also possible for users to completely disable visitor messages on their own profile.

Minified Javascript Files

In order to minimize the download footprint of the vBulletin Javascript files, these are now distributed in 'minified' (compressed) form when a package is downloaded from the Members' Area. The uncompressed versions are still available as a download option should people want them for modification purposes etc.

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Get to the RCs already =\

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Have you heard about Crowdgather?
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Was this really necessary?
It's not a huge change or improvement

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Finally!

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I want to try it out but I don't want my mods/hacks to break. I especially like the social networking aspect

You can make a test board

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Make a test board like brandon suggested.

What mods/hacks do you have installed? Alot of the mods i've used and tested have worked fine for 3.7 (with the minor edit of the max-version in the .xml).

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vBulletin 3.7.0 Release Candidate 1

THIS IS PRE-RELEASE SOFTWARE.
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If you are not fully at home with backing-up and restoring your forum, dealing with bugs and regular upgrades, DO NOT INSTALL THIS VERSION

The public beta test of vBulletin 3.7.0 is now concluded and we have moved to the 'Release Candidate' stage.

We would like to thank all customers who have taken part in the beta process and especially those who have filed bug reports. Please continue to do so during the Release Candidate stage, so that we can make 3.7.0 as bug-free as possible.

Customers running older beta versions of vBulletin 3.7.0 should upgrade as soon as possible, to ensure that any known problems are eliminated.

What does Release Candidate mean?
Release Candidate, or RC for short, means that we believe vBulletin 3.7 will be ready to be declared a "stable" and "supported" supported release once it has undergone some final testing. The only known bugs that may remain are trivial.

RCs will be released until only trivial bugs are being fixed. Once this happens, the next stage is to move on to "gold" or, as it's officially known, 3.7.0.

This is still pre-release software. If you are not fully at home with backing-up and restoring your forum, dealing with bugs and regular upgrades, do not install this version but rather wait for the final, 3.7.0 version.

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Finally, I really hope there aren't too many of these RCs and all the kinks are sorted out.

On that note, Brandon have you noticed any major issues with 3.7?

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