Download vBulletin 3.5.0 beta 1

Many websites have a forum where users can engage in various discussions with each other. To do this in a well-arranged form, a handy piece of software is needed so that you can assign different rights with which the forum can be managed. One of these forum packages is vBulletin, which is developed for a web server with a PHP-MySQL environment. The developers have released the first beta version of 3.5.0 with the following announcement:

We are pleased to announce the immediate release of vBulletin 3.5 Beta 1 to all licensed customers. For a list of many of the new features included in this release, please see the previously-posted development update† While we are confident in the sturdiness of this release, this is not a ‘stable’ release, so the following caveats apply:

• Beta software is unsupported. You should install beta versions at your own risk.
• Known issues exist within this version. You should not install beta software on production sites.
• You should always back up your database fully before attempting to install beta software.
• If you choose to install this version, you should be aware that we plan to release new beta versions in rapid succession as bugs are fixed and holes are plugged. Do not install this beta version if you are not willing or able to keep up-to-date with new releases.
• ImpEx does not support the 3.5 code yet, and will not support it until the release of 3.5.0 (stable).

config.php
The format for config.php has changed, and your existing version will not work with vBulletin 3.5. Full instructions for editing the config file will be released with the stable release of 3.5, but for now you should refer to the includes/config.php.new file and recreate your config.php file following the format laid out there.

Hacking / Plugins
Be aware that the plugin system is subject to further changes, and that hacks written for previous versions of vBulletin will almost certainly not work with 3.5, regardless of what you may have read or heard. By all means experiment, but don’t write your magnum opus for 3.5 Beta 1 and be surprised if it breaks between beta versions.

Javascript / AJAX Problems
All of the Javascript files for vBulletin 3.5 have changed. Before posting a bug report for a feature you believe to be broken, please use ctrl+f5 to perform a hard refresh and fetch the latest javascript files from your web server.

Changed Files
Erm… all of them.

New Images
The following images are new or modified:

• attach/
  • mp3.gif
  • tif.gif
  • tiff.gif
  • wmv.gif
  • xml.gif
• editor/
  • paperclip.gif
• misc/
  • moderated.gif
  • moderated_small.gif

To discuss this release please use this thread†