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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Since the initial release of vBulletin in 2000, there have been many improvements made. Below is a list of the major revisions and some of the changes they introduced.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The latest stable release of vBulletin is<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">3.7.4</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>which was released on November 4, 2008.<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" class="mw-redirect"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"></span></span><sup style="line-height: 1em;" class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="" href="#cite_note-0"></a></sup></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">On August 4, 2008<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jelsoft annouced that they will be continuing with vBulletin 3.x series. Currently these features are planned to be in 3.8:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Social Group Discussion Topics</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Private Messaging Improvements</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Most Recently-Updated Albums</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Moving Album Pictures</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Thread Prefix Permissions</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Social Group Categories</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Social Group Avatars</span></li>
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v3.8 Beta 1 was released to the public for download on October 9th, 2008.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It introduced many new features for Social Groups and Private messages. It also included a slew of various other features. A full list of features can be found in Darren Gordon's (developer) blog post<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" id="v3.7" name="v3.7"></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">A first look at vBulletin 3.7 was announced on November 23, 2007.<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><sup style="line-height: 1em;" class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="" href="#cite_note-3"></a></sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>It was officially released on April 29, 2008.<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span><sup style="line-height: 1em;" class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;" title="" href="#cite_note-4"></a></sup></p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">New features included:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Inline spam management &amp; prevention</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Thread tagging</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Search cloud / tag cloud</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Thread prefixes</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Reciprocal friendships between users</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">User picture galleries with user comment facility</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Extended member profile pages</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Inline editing of custom user profile fields</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Lightbox viewer for attached images</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Notices system for navigation bar</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">User change history</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Social bookmarking integration</span></li>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" id="v3.6" name="v3.6"></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">vBulletin 3.6 had some changes that were not available in previous versions. It became available for customers to download via the Members Area of the site, vBulletin.com. New features included:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Multi-Quote</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Infraction System</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">RSS Poster Robot</span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span style="font-style: italic;">Podcasting Support</span>.</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">The Gold release<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of vBulletin 3.6.0 was released on August 3, 2006.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">vBulletin 3.6.7 introduced full support for the Project Tools and Blog addons along with several new hook locations.<sup style="line-height: 1em;" class="noprint Template-Fact"><span style="white-space: nowrap;" title="This claim needs references to reliable sources since November 2007"><span style="font-style: italic;"><br />
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" id="v3.5" name="v3.5"></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">vBulletin 3.5 addressed some of the problems users had with version 3.0. Here are a few of the changes:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A plugin system that allows for modifications<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of the software without the need to edit the program scripts. This allows a forum operator to keep their modifications (called "hacks" in the vBulletin community) and not having to re-edit scripts after upgrading.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) editing of thread titles and post content.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Inline moderation, allowing forum operators to manage threads and posts on their board without having to go through intermediary steps.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">An API<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>system (referred to as "data managers") to let third-parties integrate more easily.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Template history and comparison where administrators can store a specific revision of a template into the database, which can be arbitrarily compared against each another.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">MySQLi wrapper that adds support for MySQL 4.1.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A database-stored thread marking system. Previous versions of vBulletin relied on a variable stored in the database, and also a cookie, to store information about what threads had been read and not read by the user. However, this information was volatile and did not keep; plus if you merely idled for 15 minutes (some forums have longer timeouts, 15 minutes is the default) this information would be lost.</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" id="v3.0" name="v3.0"></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Initially, version 3.0 was intended to be an extension of the 2.x release that would improve performance and user experience. However, as time progressed, it proved to be a complete rewrite. Some of the key advantages over vBulletin 2 are:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">The templates and style use XHTML<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and CSS.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">None of the language displayed by vBulletin is hard-coded in English; there's support for multiple languages by use of phrases.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A WYSIWYG<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>editor for users to post in.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Paid subscriptions that allow administrators to charge for certain features of their site.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Multiple views for threads: linear (a flat system), threaded (display of the entire thread tree), and hybrid (a combination of both).</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" id="v2.x" name="v2.x"></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">vBulletin 2 is no longer under active development, except for security updates. When this version was released, it had numerous new features over vBulletin 1, which it replaced:</p>
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<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Private messaging to allow users to communicate in private.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Polls could be attached to threads.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Nested forums of unlimited depth. This allowed forums to be children of each other without constraints.</li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">User avatars.<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span></li>
<li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">A user control panel that allows users to control various board options.</li>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 43, 184); background-image: none;" id="v1.x_and_vBulletin_Lite" name="v1.x_and_vBulletin_Lite"></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">Development of vBulletin 1 is no longer active; also, it is no longer a supported release.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">vBulletin 1 was the initial release of vBulletin, sporting the same features as UBB.classic<span class="Apple-converted-space"></span>. The release was very popular as it was one of the first systems that was written using PHP and MySQL that had the features of UBB.</p>
<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;">vBulletin Lite was a degraded version of the 1.x series that allowed potential customers to test their server for compatibility with vBulletin. The product was discontinued after vBulletin 2 because there were security issues and it was out of date, and Jelsoft did not want to spend resources into maintaining a non-commercial product.</p></span>[/html]