Upgrading versus own template modifications

[jamiestevens]

Hi vBulletin users,

I am pretty new here and do not know too much about vBulletin yet. My question is: when I have modified the look of vBulletin by creating my own theme, can I later upgrade to another version of vBulletin without having to do all the work again?

I know that this was a huge problem with Invision Board a few years ago. I had re-designed the board completely and then a security issue came up and I had to upgrade to another version, which was completely not compatible with the older skin system.

Is this the same with vBulletin?

And does anyone know when a stable 3.5 version of vBulletin will be released?

Thanks for your help.

[Colin F]

Generally you won't have to redo your templates.
There is always a post in the announcements about new versions that state which templates changed. If one of these require a revert, you'll most likely have to reapply the changes to that template, as you could be missing out on bugfixes otherwise.

[jamiestevens]

Ah, okay, thank you.
That's very positive.