vB Silver vs. vB Gold: Whats the difference ?

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

vB Silver vs. vB Gold: What will be the fundamental difference ?

[thefluke]

To my knowledge there is no silver relesase.


A gold version is just computer industry jargon for a product that has been released. I belive iit has to do with master cd's (the one's used to burn the distro cd's- were at one point gold colored. Hence, when some thing had gone gold, it was ready for distrubution.

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

So what will happen to vB2.3.x when vB3.0.0 is officially released ?

[Wayne Luke]

It will be replaced with 3.0.0 as the official version of vBulletin.

[Bro_Joey_Gowdy]

Thanks for the info -- I had been curious about that for quite a while.

[Meltingfire]

Just out of curiosity, will vb2 still be downloadable after that vb3 has gone gold?
I myself see no reason to download vb2, but maybe somebody want to.

And another question, the current site (vbulletin.com) is very like the default skin of the vb2 forum, will the site be redesigned after vb3 goes gold to match the new style?

[Matthew Gordon]

vB2 will probably not be downloadable when vB3 goes final. Support for vB2 will probably disappear within a few months as well.

[Tolitz]

Hmm, I remember vB 1.x still being downloadable for a short time after vB2 went gold...

[Steve Machol]

vB2 will be available for a while if for no other reason than people running older versions (pre-2.2.9) will need to upgrade to it before they can upgrade to vB3.