New Features Questions and Answers

Have I accidently clicked on the "style" at the bottom of the page?

I've gone back to "autumn" it's easier to read.

 

I have noticed there are a few teething problems with the forum :D

some of the Vbulletin icons are not showing, this can be seen when a box shows and you see a red X in it.

Also Vbulletin is now showing a more stable platform for version 3.8+

new version is 3.8.4 patch level 1. is the forum going to be updated to this new release or are you going to wait until version 4 comes out.

John

 

PCMedic..not being a vBulletin subscriber or user (for a couple of years now) I'm not aware of what 3.8.4 patch level 1 is, however being web and forum savvy I can only guess that its security related as 9 out of 10 times thats what they are..the other occasions are functionality updates..usually. So to my mind..upgrading is a no brainer.

Steve...

 

I would guess the question is directed at admin. Version 3.8.4 is the latest version of software that runs this forum, and already there is a patch for it.

 

As the forum is running Vbulletin 3.8.1 it is essential that upgrades to newer versions are maintained. Like you said, most of them are security updates...but their is also the platform update that needs to be stable enough to be able to handle PHP 5.3.0

Although it's not exactly according to the published release timetable, as we are still delayed by redirecting all resources available to prepare vBulletin 4.0 for its debut, vBulletin 3.8.4 is a maintenance version, which rounds up some usability related bugs, as well as address the problems for servers running PHP 5.3.0. 3.8.4 also addresses an issue with vbchop() causing PHP memory to hit memory_limit with very very very long posts filled with special entities on some non-standard configurations.

Issues resolved by 3.8.4 include the following:
•PHP 5.3.0 Depracated messages [28380]
•PHP 5.3 Timezone Bug [28388]
•Plus Characters in Email Addresses [27748]
•Infractions and Infraction Points not showing correctly on "Search for Users" [27656]
•Invalid URL falsely returned [27278]
A complete list of the issues resolved by 3.8.4 is available in the Project Tools.

Upgrading from Previous Versions

3.8.4 is a maintenance release. We recommend that all customers running prior versions of vBulletin 3.8 upgrade to benefit from bug fixes and stability improvements.

PHP and MySQL Requirements

Please note that vBulletin 3.8.x requires at least PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 or later.

However, we recommend that vBulletin 3.8.x is run on PHP 5.2.9 with APC (or a similar opcode cache) and MySQL 5.1.32 for best performance and stability.

Files changed since 3.8.3

Almost all php files were changed due to the PHP 5.3.0 related bugs, so the list is quite large. Below are a list of files that have changed since vBulletin 3.8.3:

•ajax.php

•admincp

•accessmask.php

•admincalendar.php

•admininfraction.php

•adminlog.php

•adminpermissions.php

•adminreputation.php

•album.php

•announcement.php

•attachment.php

•attachmentpermission.php

•avatar.php

•backup.php

•bbcode.php

•bookmarksite.php

•calendarpermission.php

•cronadmin.php

•cronlog.php

•css.php

•deployads.php

•diagnostic.php

•email.php

•faq.php

•forum.php

•forumpermission.php

•help.php

•image.php

•index.php

•language.php

•misc.php

•moderator.php

•modlog.php

•newsproxy.php

•notice.php

•options.php

•passwordcheck.php

•phrase.php

•plugin.php

•prefix.php

•profilefield.php

•queries.php

•ranks.php

•reminder.php

•repair.php

•replacement.php

•resources.php

•rssposter.php

•socialgroup_icon.php

•socialgroups.php

•stats.php

•subscriptionpermission.php

•subscriptions.php

•template.php

•textarea.php

•thread.php

•user.php

•usergroup.php

•usertitle.php

•usertools.php

•verify.php

•album.php

•announcement.php

•archive

•index.php

•attachment.php

•calendar.php

•clientscript

•vbulletin_menu.js

•vbulletin_textedit.js

•converse.php

•cron.php

•editpost.php

•external.php

•faq.php

•forumdisplay.php

•global.php

•group.php

•group_inlinemod.php

•groupsubscription.php

•image.php

•includes

•adminfunctions_announcement.php

•adminfunctions_attachment.php

•adminfunctions_backup.php

•adminfunctions_bookmarksite.php

•adminfunctions_forums.php

•adminfunctions_help.php

•adminfunctions_language.php

•adminfunctions_misc.php

•adminfunctions_options.php

•adminfunctions_profilefield.php

•adminfunctions_reminder.php

•adminfunctions_reputation.php

•adminfunctions_stats.php

•adminfunctions_template.php

•adminfunctions_user.php

•adminfunctions.php

•class_bbcode.php

•class_dbalter.php

•class_mail.php

•class_postbit.php

•class_upload.php

•class_userchangelog.php

•class_vurl.php

•class_xml.php

•cron

•activate.php

•attachmentviews.php

•birthday.php

•ccbill.php

•cleanup.php

•cleanup2.php

•dailycleanup.php

•digestdaily.php

•digestweekly.php

•infractions.php

•promotion.php

•reminder.php

•removebans.php

•rssposter.php

•stats.php

•subscriptions.php

•threadviews.php

•functions_album.php

•functions_banning.php

•functions_file.php

•functions_newpost.php

•functions_ranks.php

•functions.php

•html_color_names.php

•init.php

•index.php

•infraction.php

•inlinemod.php

•install

•authenticate.php

•finalupgrade.php

•install_language_en.php

•install.php

•installcore.php

•mysql-schema.php

•tableprefix.php

•upgrade_300.php

•upgrade_300b3.php

•upgrade_300b4.php

•upgrade_300b5.php

•upgrade_300b6.php

•upgrade_300b7.php

•upgrade_300g.php

•upgrade_300rc1.php

•upgrade_300rc2.php

•upgrade_300rc3.php

•upgrade_300rc4.php

•upgrade_301.php

•upgrade_3010.php

•upgrade_3011.php

•upgrade_3012.php

•upgrade_3013.php

•upgrade_3014.php

•upgrade_3015.php

•upgrade_302.php

•upgrade_303.php

•upgrade_304.php

•upgrade_305.php

•upgrade_306.php

•upgrade_307.php

•upgrade_308.php

•upgrade_309.php

•upgrade_350.php

•upgrade_350b1.php

•upgrade_350b2.php

•upgrade_350b3.php

•upgrade_350b4.php

•upgrade_350rc1.php

•upgrade_350rc2.php

•upgrade_350rc3.php

•upgrade_351.php

•upgrade_352.php

•upgrade_353.php

•upgrade_354.php

•upgrade_355.php

•upgrade_360.php

•upgrade_360b1.php

•upgrade_360b2.php

•upgrade_360b3.php

•upgrade_360b4.php

•upgrade_360rc1.php

•upgrade_360rc2.php

•upgrade_360rc3.php

•upgrade_361.php

•upgrade_362.php

•upgrade_363.php

•upgrade_364.php

•upgrade_365.php

•upgrade_366.php

•upgrade_367.php

•upgrade_368.php

•upgrade_370.php

•upgrade_370b2.php

•upgrade_370b3.php

•upgrade_370b4.php

•upgrade_370b5.php

•upgrade_370b6.php

•upgrade_370rc1.php

•upgrade_370rc2.php

•upgrade_370rc3.php

•upgrade_370rc4.php

•upgrade_371.php

•upgrade_380.php

•upgrade_380a2.php

•upgrade_380b1.php

•upgrade_380b2.php

•upgrade_380b3.php

•upgrade_380b4.php

•upgrade_380rc1.php

•upgrade_380rc2.php

•upgrade_381.php

•upgrade_382.php

•upgrade_383.php

•upgrade_384.php

•upgrade_language_en.php

•upgrade.php

•upgradecore.php

•vbulletin-language.xml

•vbulletin-settings.xml

•vbulletin-style.xml

•joinrequests.php

•login.php

•member.php

•member_inlinemod.php

•memberlist.php

•misc.php

•modcp

•announcement.php

•banning.php

•deletedposts.php

•forum.php

•help.php

•index.php

•moderate.php

•thread.php

•user.php

•moderation.php

•moderator.php

•newattachment.php

•newreply.php

•newthread.php

•online.php

•payment_gateway.php

•payments.php

•picture.php

•picture_inlinemod.php

•picturecomment.php

•poll.php

•posthistory.php

•postings.php

•printthread.php

•private.php

•profile.php

•register.php

•report.php

•reputation.php

•search.php

•sendmessage.php

•showgroups.php

•showpost.php

•showthread.php

•subscription.php

•tags.php

•threadrate.php

•threadtag.php

•usercp.php

•usernote.php

•visitormessage.php

John

PC Medic

PS....i own and run 2 Vbulletin forums, which one of them was compremised and attacked by hackers. This was due to security updates that was not implemented when i should of done...this in return cost me dearly, and all data was lost. the forum had to be rebuilt from scratch :(

 

Like i said, your posts should be directed to admin, they are of no concern or interest to most users

 

PCMedic is Admin :gnthb: I believe he has answered a question asked of him :gnthb:

 

Maybes you will notice :D i am Admin

My questions like every other member here is directed at the original owner of the thread who upgraded the forum to Vbulletin.


John
Administrator

PC Medic

 

Well yes and no...:lollol:
No because..

Forum software makers often do not provide support to out of date installations...kind of a "We told you so" mentality and its especially so when its security related patch/upgrade. This upgrade appears to be just a few maintenance fixes which could be just left as long as the above phrase is remembered. If a vulnerabilty is found in a forum software, then very quickly every hacker and his dog will learn of it and that software is then targeted and attacked. Its nothing new as its been going on for years.

Yes because..

Others wont necessarily want to read it...but will

Steve...

 

I don't know how to reply to a private message.I tried but do not know if it worked

 

http://img6.imageshack.us/i/lonicerakola44.jpg/

 

this is my sort Kola44 I have stil few sorts,but now rather colect foreign sorts, its more faster and russians have most good and fastly better and better.Now they breed new row where berries are 40mm long.I have only 30mm.