Forum Upgraded to Version 3.7.1

[John Scheffel]

I have upgraded the forum to vBulletin 3.7.1. Let me know if this causes any problems for anyone.

Here is a list of new features from the announcement Email.

* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* New human-verification tools including reCAPTCHA, and question/answer
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration

For further details on these features, take a look at the 'First Look' thread, available at vBulletin.com:
http://www.vbulletin.com/go/37features

[John Scheffel]

While testing this upgrade I noticed that one of our customizations had quit working. By request I added an option to display the member info on the left as it was in older versions of vBulletin. The default is to display the member info on top of the post. I'm not sure when this customization quit working but it has been fixed.



You can change this setting from User CP when logged in.
User CP
Edit Options
Under Thread Display Options/Member Info Position In Post check Show On Left (see image)
Scroll down and click Save Changes
If you make this setting the Member info should appear as shown in the attached image.

[John Scheffel]

On Sep 9, 2008 the forum was upgraded to vBulletin version 3.7.3 to get the latest security patches.

This update requires that members cannot use their member name as the password. We had 23 members who were doing this and their passwords were reset. If you were one of these 23 people you should receive an Email with the new password. If you find that you cannot login, contact me. Click on my name in this post and send me an Email or personal message or click the Contact Us link at the bottom of any forum page.

[John Scheffel]

On Nov 6, 2008 the forum was upgraded to vBulletin version 3.7.4 to get the latest bug fixes and security patches. There are no new features. If this upgrade causes any problems let me know.