vBulletin 5.0.5 is Now Available for Download.

[Wayne Luke]

FastDS is a caching system for phrases, templates and other frequently used items outside the normal datastore. Currently it is developed to work the APC.

To enable FastDS, you need to use the /core/includes/config.php file included with vBulletin 5.0.5. Inside it look for the following code:

//$config['fastDS'] = true; //Use to disable fastDS completely
//$config['fastDSType'] = 'APC'; //Use to disable fastDS completely. At this time APC is the only option.
//$config['fastDSPrefix'] = ''; //prefix, to prevent collisions. Defaults to database prefix.
    //Note that if you use the same cache type for this and fast or large cache, and the same prefix, you
    // may have conflicts.
//$config['fastDSLimit'] = 6000000; //Limit the amount of memory consumed, in bytes 

Uncomment each variable line. It is not recommended to increase the memory allocation at this time. It is recommended that you set a unique prefix for your cache.

Save your file and upload to the server to enable Fast DS.

[Wayne Luke]

Updated Templates

admin_sitebuilder
bbcode_attachment_list
blogadmin_adminsettings
ckeditor_javascript
contententry
contententry_panel_blogoptions
contententry_toolbar
conversation_footer
conversation_toolbar
conversation_userinfo
css_b_avatar.css
css_b_button_group.css
css_b_form_control.css
css_b_form_input.css
css_b_gallery_thumbnail_list.css
css_b_icon.css
css_b_layout.css
css_b_memberlist.css
css_b_meter.css
css_b_post.css
css_b_post_attachments.css
css_b_post_sm.css
css_b_table.css
css_b_toolbar.css
css_b_topicpreview.css
css_blogs_groups.css
css_form.css
css_global.css
css_help.css
css_login.css
css_memberlist.css
css_message_center.css
css_profile.css
css_reset.css
css_responsive.css
css_search.css
css_sitebuilder.css
css_utilities.css
display_Comments
display_Forums_item
display_Forums_list
display_Topics
display_Topics_item
display_contenttype_conversationreply_BlogChannel
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Gallery
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Infraction
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Link
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Photo
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Poll
display_contenttype_conversationreply_SGChannel
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Text
display_contenttype_conversationreply_Video
display_contenttype_conversationreply_threadview_Gallery
display_contenttype_conversationreply_threadview_Link
display_contenttype_conversationreply_threadview_Poll
display_contenttype_conversationreply_threadview_Text
display_contenttype_conversationreply_threadview_Video
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_Poll
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_threadview_Gallery
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_threadview_Infraction
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_threadview_Link
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_threadview_Poll
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_threadview_Text
display_contenttype_conversationstarter_threadview_Video
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Gallery
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Infraction
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Link
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Photo
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Poll
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Text
display_contenttype_searchwidget_Video
display_contenttype_searchwidget_item_footer
display_contenttype_searchwidget_item_header
display_contenttype_threadview_footer
display_contenttype_threadview_header
footer
give_infraction_form
header
link
link_edit
login_form
memberlist_item
memberlist_items
privatemessage_infraction_item
privatemessage_listfolder_toolbar
privatemessage_notificationdetail
privatemessage_participants
privatemessage_subscribedposts_toolbar
privatemessage_subscribers_toolbar
privatemessage_trash_toolbar
privatemessage_view_toolbar
privatemessage_viewinfraction
privatemessage_viewinfraction_toolbar
profile_media
received_infraction_form
search_config
search_save_module
sgadmin_addicondlg
subscriptions_one
subscriptions_two
user_infractions
video_edit
widget_activate_email
widget_activate_user
widget_album
widget_announcement
widget_blogadmin
widget_blogchanneldisplay
widget_bloghome
widget_blogsidebar
widget_blogsummary
widget_channeldisplay
widget_contactus
widget_conversationdisplay
widget_coppa_form
widget_forgot_password
widget_groupsummary
widget_help
widget_memberlist
widget_newcontent
widget_onlineusers
widget_privatemessage_display
widget_privatemessage_navigation
widget_privatemessage_search
widget_privatemessage_toolbar
widget_profile
widget_profile_sidebar
widget_register
widget_search_criteria
widget_search_results
widget_settings
widget_sgadmin
widget_sgchanneldisplay
widget_sghome
widget_sgsidebar
widget_visitormessage_display

[Wayne Luke]

Release Notes - vBulletin 5 - Version 5.0.5

New Features and Improvement Requests

• [VBV-5971] - Allow auto infraction/warnings notifications to go to email and pm's
• [VBV-10790] - Add Optional cache logging
• [VBV-11008] - Add "Check All" checkbox over RSS Feed Manager List.
• [VBV-8936] - Separate Editor switch buttons from Content Types on the Editor
• [VBV-9450] - Allow more notification types to mobile apps.
• [VBV-10331] - Improvements to the API logger
• [VBV-10391] - Remove Cookie Settings from the Install Script
• [VBV-10437] - List the Channel's Node ID in the Forum Manager.
• [VBV-10482] - Confirmation message for deleting an infraction is malformed
• [VBV-10491] - Revert profile customization should popup confirm message
• [VBV-10531] - Change Order and Description of URL Settings under URL / Site Name / Contact Details.
• [VBV-10586] - Increase width for left menu in message center
• [VBV-10621] - Add application/x-javascript in the mod_deflate rules
• [VBV-10755] - Update CLI upgrader to allow running of single upgrader version, and start from specific version
• [VBV-10782] - Store video thumbnail somewhere instead of fetching it from the url every time
• [VBV-11061] - Prevent the symlinks to be auto-resolved
• [VBV-11166] - Remove images/bbcode from topic preview
• [VBV-11204] - Updated vb5readme.html
• [VBV-11338] - Improve the Topic Hover Preview Display.
• [VBV-2244] - Last post icon

Bug

• [VBV-641] - FAQ link in default guest notice links to error page
• [VBV-1557] - No hover thread preview functionality
• [VBV-2784] - RSS Feed Not pulling feeds
• [VBV-4314] - RSS feed poster posts the feed content using the userid of the person who created the feed, rather than the specified user id
• [VBV-5007] - False Positive on Mod_Security Ajax Test
• [VBV-5055] - "Thread views" is missing
• [VBV-5496] - Mobile App: Can't view subscribed list on home page
• [VBV-5788] - Group Icon disappears after a while
• [VBV-6194] - Post icons display broken images in Add New RSS Feed
• [VBV-6518] - Rename Home tab gets reverted after reloading page if debug mode is disabled
• [VBV-7057] - Changing parent channel of a forum channel to "Forum", or from "Main Category", shows error (but change succesfull)
• [VBV-8065] - Group main page has styling issues in responsive
• [VBV-8187] - Modifying "Thumbnail Quality" setting doesn't invalidate existing images
• [VBV-8743] - Database Error on Phrase API method "search"
• [VBV-8938] - Arabic character in URLs don't display properly
• [VBV-9405] - Changing Attachment Resize Options doesn't invalidate existing resized images
• [VBV-9565] - Codification issue with the Share Video function
• [VBV-9568] - View Highlighted Changes of templates in Admin results in error
• [VBV-9696] - Can't delete Main Category or change its parent channel
• [VBV-9868] - Mobile App: Enabling blog comments does not enable them
• [VBV-9994] - Changing a forum url, breaks all topics inside of it
• [VBV-9997] - If avatar thumbnail is fetched first, subsequent avatar calls to the same user cannot fetch bigger avatars
• [VBV-10034] - "newthread_newthread" does not include max tags info in the response
• [VBV-10169] - "api_gotonewpost" method doesn't include infos used in last/first unread features
• [VBV-10171] - Can't delete channels via Site Builder or Admincp (on large site?)
• [VBV-10255] - (Regression) Node linking to a specific post leads only to the thread page in Internet Explorer and Safari.
• [VBV-10264] - (Regression) In Blogs, the Topics keeps selected for Inline Moderation after Login Off / Hard Refresh
• [VBV-10281] - Missing Table Prefix for tmp_nodestats
• [VBV-10287] - Unable to save usergroup change
• [VBV-10304] - Trying to make a request to the addNode method will result on "no_create_permissions" error
• [VBV-10306] - Cache Queries can exceed 1 MB
• [VBV-10326] - (Regression) Can't Copy the first post in a Topic
• [VBV-10329] - Can't create post if specific three permissions are set to No.
• [VBV-10335] - Style Generator -- Broken Icons [Site Builder]
• [VBV-10342] - Blog icon disappears 'over night'
• [VBV-10351] - Notice: Undefined offset: 1 in H:\Thor\core\vb\api\product.php on line 177
• [VBV-10370] - Apparently wasted stylevar calls
• [VBV-10374] - MySQL Error on pruneLog method
• [VBV-10376] - activity should return same # of items as the web version
• [VBV-10396] - PHP Notice when paging forward on topic list.
• [VBV-10415] - Template syntax not working - {vb:set cols... or {vb:set perRow..
• [VBV-10465] - Radio buttons not displayed correctly in the User Settings / User Account page (regression)
• [VBV-10477] - "Last Activity" is available when user is in invisble mode
• [VBV-10492] - Error :Illegal string offset 'direction' on line 132 in /includes/vb5/template/stylevar.php
• [VBV-10494] - Disabling Topic Comment Posting in Message Posting and Editing options removes the Quote option in Topics
• [VBV-10507] - You are allowed to change your password so that it is the same your username.
• [VBV-10522] - Message Center title
• [VBV-10524] - Change "Physically remove" to "Permanently Remove"
• [VBV-10564] - Undefined variable: nodeId in includes\vb5\frontend\controller\createcontent.php
• [VBV-10566] - Misleading description in Blog Admin -> Invite Members -> Enter User Names
• [VBV-10570] - PHP Errors on avatar upload.
• [VBV-10580] - The tags are not populated in the tagnode table on an upgrade
• [VBV-10581] - $vbphrase[there_are_x_online] need 2 versions of this
• [VBV-10590] - Attachments List has "views" hard coded
• [VBV-10600] - Bad query while saving usergroup options
• [VBV-10604] - Incorrect name displayed in comment noifications
• [VBV-10613] - Typo in Phrase - edit_topic_title_explained
• [VBV-10614] - Typo in Phrase - merge_invalid_contenttypes
• [VBV-10629] - Hardcoded phrases in site builder
• [VBV-10648] - All attachments deleted after upgrading to vB5
• [VBV-10652] - $vbphrase[choose_option_group_icon] is used in blogs too
• [VBV-10680] - Error on Conversation Pages as guest
• [VBV-10684] - Unnecessary calls to vB_Library_Repution->repPower()
• [VBV-10685] - Info loss on 3rd party product export / import
• [VBV-10711] - Incorrect (200) status code for profile pages when guests do not have permission to view member profiles
• [VBV-10715] - Usernames consisting of all numbers and shorter than 6 digits cannot log in.
• [VBV-10730] - Responsive - Advanced Search -> mis-alignment of pagination
• [VBV-10739] - Unit test failures
• [VBV-10746] - Investigate/Update AdminCP > User Manager > Change Signature Picture
• [VBV-10747] - Issues when installing custom language
• [VBV-10758] - adminconfig stored in widgetinstance table as a Blob. Should be mediumtext
• [VBV-10760] - Datastore - Registry object missing test case
• [VBV-10766] - Global phrasegroup query.
• [VBV-10767] - fetchCustomProfileFields query
• [VBV-10769] - "New Entries" leads to a search result page with no results
• [VBV-10773] - Memcache Calls for array of keys not handled efficiently
• [VBV-10774] - Need to attempt APC cache
• [VBV-10775] - privatemessage_subscribedposts_toolbar & privatemessage_subscribedposts have slightly different arguments passed into vB_Api_Follow->getFollowingActivities
• [VBV-10780] - InstallTest running problems
• [VBV-10787] - Move page translations to separate phrase group.
• [VBV-10788] - "See more" link still present on the Latest Group Topics module (should be the View All button now)
• [VBV-10789] - Improve cacheDeleteAll query
• [VBV-10793] - Upgrader message is misleading when auto-import skips a language file.
• [VBV-10798] - Unit test failures in Memcache
• [VBV-10810] - Typo in phrase - are_you_sure_move_to_trash
• [VBV-10814] - Writing twice to the cache with the same cacheid, then purging that entry recreates the cache record
• [VBV-10821] - Typo in phrase - 'describe_your_group'
• [VBV-10824] - expireCache($key) does not remove cacheevent entry
• [VBV-10828] - (Regression) Site builder > Edit page > Save Page causes MySQL error
• [VBV-10829] - Database errors not being sent to tech email
• [VBV-10830] - Database Errors are giving Internal Server Errors, not useful error messages
• [VBV-10852] - Images added to a post are floated left
• [VBV-10855] - ACP RSS Feed Manager -- post icons not being sorted out as they were before
• [VBV-10858] - Node Parent Data should not be preloaded.
• [VBV-10859] - Cached photo Count and Attach Count are not used.
• [VBV-10861] - Node cache CACHELEVEL_JOINABLECONTENT is never written or found.
• [VBV-10863] - Missing question mark in phrase - 'content_subscriptions_gfaqtitle'
• [VBV-10872] - Channels not display in admincp if you don't have permission to view them (regression)
• [VBV-10873] - This topic is closed (period missing)
• [VBV-10890] - (Regression) Site builder > Page Manager > Save Page causes MySQL error
• [VBV-10891] - Cannot move any channel under "Main Category" (vB_Channel::MAIN_FORUM_CATEGORY)
• [VBV-10893] - Unit Test Failure in memcachedTest
• [VBV-10900] - Error in Sphinx Config
• [VBV-10902] - vbulletin-sphinx.php
• [VBV-10903] - Error in Search Core indexer
• [VBV-10915] - Sphinx Delete failing
• [VBV-10917] - (Regression) The HTML of special characters, in the title, is displayed on the Blog Latest Comments stream
• [VBV-10919] - Attachments in posts: "1 views" is wrong
• [VBV-10924] - Unit test failure in Usertest
• [VBV-10931] - dbCache uses REPLACE INTO, should use "ON DUPLICATE KEY"
• [VBV-10933] - Trying to post a reply after user's session timed out displays incorrect message
• [VBV-10934] - cacheevent table not getting cleared when you Clear System Cache
• [VBV-10938] - Page phrase names reference invalid GUID causing incorrect Page Names.
• [VBV-10941] - (Regression) My Profile > Misalignment of the sidebar menu buttons
• [VBV-10943] - Cache error in loadNameRoutes()
• [VBV-10944] - Navigating directly to a redirect nodeid brings up a page you can apparently post to.
• [VBV-10947] - Remove unused node library function listNodesWithContent()
• [VBV-10948] - PHP Notice: Undefined index: title ... when posting comments
• [VBV-10949] - MySQL Error on "getParticipants" API method
• [VBV-10951] - vBulletin 5.0.4 RC1 to 5.0.4 Upgrade calls non-existant table.
• [VBV-10954] - Profile link in User Settings menu not active by default
• [VBV-10962] - Typo in can_drop_node_keywords
• [VBV-10964] - FR is returning 'Access Denied' on any request
• [VBV-10965] - FR App returns the channels list without following the displayorder
• [VBV-10971] - Smiley/Emoticon broken in signature
• [VBV-10973] - Database error in scheduled tasks
• [VBV-10981] - Private Message > Inline image is not displayed to the receiver
• [VBV-11009] - Forum List is really wide when you have lots of sub forums
• [VBV-11013] - Phrase toolbar.removeformat won't work
• [VBV-11014] - Typo in fetchCommonRoutes() means it always returns false.
• [VBV-11029] - When the poll results are loaded after voting on it, your vote doesn't show up
• [VBV-11030] - Editing a post & uploading attachment from URL creates two attach-item rows of that same attachment & inserted image is not visible to any other user.
• [VBV-11031] - Wrong post # displayed when adding new comment
• [VBV-11038] - (Regression) First Post Content Ad and Last Post Content Ad do not work
• [VBV-11053] - Photos/Video post cuts off in profile page
• [VBV-11055] - Uploading photo album results in broken photo thumbnail on profile page
• [VBV-11069] - PHP Fatal Error on new install
• [VBV-11072] - Stale data received by fixAttachBBCode() causes edits to be saved incorrectly
• [VBV-11075] - Strict Standards Error in the /core/vb/api/vb4/forum.php file
• [VBV-11083] - Channel Permissions editing fails.
• [VBV-11092] - Call to /images/css/sprite_icons_vb.png but image file does not exist in VB 5.0.4 package
• [VBV-11100] - Error while trying to make a fresh install "PHP Fatal error: Call to a member function fetch_userinfo()"
• [VBV-11103] - Possible Exploit - can create admin account via install.php and/or upgrade.php
• [VBV-11110] - Login form distorted on IE9 (Regression)
• [VBV-11113] - Install Final Step 9 (Add routes to channel table)
• [VBV-11116] - Failures in userTest and InfractionTest
• [VBV-11117] - (REGRESSION) as admin or blog owner, the Administrative drop down menu in the about this blog page, does not display anything.
• [VBV-11118] - Error in the editor: "TypeError: $(...).qtip is not a function" (Regression)
• [VBV-11120] - Stylevar autocomplete field has blank background
• [VBV-11123] - (REGRESSION) Trying to create a Blog results in security token was missing error
• [VBV-11124] - (REGRESSION) Trying to create a group results in security token was missing error
• [VBV-11127] - Unable to move topics to another forum
• [VBV-11160] - Fatal loop if database connect fails (Regression)
• [VBV-11161] - Multiple forums on one server fail due to fastDS
• [VBV-11165] - Topic preview doesn't work with topics that have no post content
• [VBV-11167] - Topic preview doesn't display quotation marks/quotes correctly
• [VBV-11170] - Last Post visible in channel lists for users with only the Can View Channels permission
• [VBV-11174] - Guests able to create nodes via content_redirect
• [VBV-11179] - Post content is missing when you edit a blog post
• [VBV-11193] - (Regression) Redirect when editing blog post and comment
• [VBV-11197] - (REGRESSION) creating a forum post with an underscore in the title causes the post to give an "Invalid page url" error
• [VBV-11200] - Unapprove/Approve post throws an error message
• [VBV-11205] - Forum Home Page distorts when logged in on IE 9
• [VBV-11206] - vbtest - Unable to delete blog
• [VBV-11207] - ReferenceError: invalid_server_response_please_try_again is not defined (Regression)
• [VBV-11211] - +Blog Entry leads to new blog creation
• [VBV-11215] - Undefined index notice when commenting on a visitor message (Regression)
• [VBV-11216] - Editing a poll will redirect to the "create-content/poll" page (Regression)
• [VBV-11218] - Soft-deleting a visitor message will break the inline moderation menu (Regression)
• [VBV-11225] - Site Logo can't be edited via Site Builder
• [VBV-11226] - When there are no "content type" buttons, the buttons on the right side have no bottom margin
• [VBV-11230] - Topic hover preview displays "[object Object]" instead of actual preview
• [VBV-11235] - (REGRESSION) Not CSS applied in the subscribed items
• [VBV-11251] - Adding a Moderator to a child forum, when the parrent forum has a moderator causes a database error
• [VBV-11310] - (Regression) Cannot Unstick Threads using Inline Moderation on the Channel View Page.
• [VBV-11312] - Thread preview does not work after page forward
• [VBV-11315] - Cannot edit "Latest topics" module (JS error) (regression from 5.0.4)
• [VBV-11355] - (Regression) Quote buttons disappear after Pagination
• [VBV-11357] - Search Database Error
• [VBV-11363] - Database error when searching for specific string
• [VBV-11370] - Visitor Message buttons messed up (Regression)

[Wayne Luke]

We're proud to release vBulletin Connect 5.0.5. vBulletin Connect 5.0.5 resolves 197 issues with the software. This includes new features, feature parity with 4.x and bug issues. These issues cover a wide range of components including performance, security, Admin Control Panel fixes, enhancements for the Mobile Suite and more.

New Features in vBulletin 5.0.5

• fastDS (selected APC caching which works in multi-server environments) - FastDS allows you to store the Datastore, Templates and Phrases in APC's memory. This enables super-fast retrieval. You can configure this in your /core/includes/config.php file.
• Infraction notifications will be sent to the user's email if they cannot be sent to their private messages.

vBulletin 5.0.5 Feature Parity

• Hover thread preview - Hovering over the thread preview on a forum page will give you an AJAX preview of the thread.
• Added last post link - Image Link in the Last Post Info data of Topic View on the forum page. This will take you to the last post of the thread.
• Incoming RSS - You can now import RSS feeds into your site to build content. This works the same as in vBulletin 4.X.
• Thread views - Thread views now show in the statistics column of your Topic View. Thread Views start when you upgrade to vBulletin 5.0.5

Installs and Upgrades

• New installs will no longer request the Cookie Path and Cookie Domain values to be set. We've found these variables to be confusing and when improperly set they can lock you out of the Admin CP. If needed, you can still set these within the Admin CP under Settings -> Options -> Cookie and HTTP Header Options.
• The vb5readme.html has been updated with new instructions for handling the install folder after upgrades.
• An issue was discovered that would expose a hash of your Customer ID in the source code of your install and upgrade scripts. This has been resolved. For security, you should still delete the install directory after upgrades.

A list of all issues resolved can be found in JIRA here: http://tracker.vbulletin.com/browse/...rversion/10833

You can discuss this release here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forum...0-5-discussion