vBulletin 4.2.2 Alpha has been released

Yes, its now available as Beta 1.
There are no new features as such in 4.2.2.

 

Source link? The forum rss feed didn't update with the latest news. What's changed in beta?

 

Which URL are you using for that feed? I had recently been informed that the vB5 version of external.php is not available yet when I was trying to find the updated URL for the Announcements forum feed.

 

The source was me.
The changes are all listed in the topic in the announcements forum.

 

Good looking list of changes.

 

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...000121-vbulletin-4-2-2-full-has-been-released

4.2.2 has been released

 

nice!

vBulletin 4.2.2 is NOW AVAILABLE for download.

The feedback thread for the 4.2.2 release is HERE for our licensed customers.

vBulletin 4.2.2 is a maintenance release primarily focused on php 5.4 compatibility issues, as well as a few other important fixes for Facebook, PayPal & MAPI updates for Mobile 1.5

The release contains:

* Many fixes for php 5.4 compatibility.
* MAPI updates for Mobile 1.5
* Facebook updates due to changes by Facebook
* PayPal updates due to changes by PayPal.
* Update to recognise IE11 User Agent
* Fix Import/export of Navigation Manager (Open new page flag)
* A couple of security updates in the installer & Forum Runner.
* Added the Panjo online community marketplace plug-in.
* A number of other major bugs held over from 4.2.1

vBulletin 4.2.2 contains a total of 109 bug fixes, improvement requests, and feature requests. A full list of these changes can be found - HERE.

 

I'm not familiar with Panjo; anybody using it yet? It appears to be an eBay like service that acts as a classifieds host for forums with the forum admin' getting a percentage of the sales.

 

I looked at it, and saw a number of forums where it was installed remove it after their users didn't like it. Used to be called enthusify. From what I remember, it basically takes classifieds off your site and onto theirs, combines them with classifieds from other sites, and offers a payment portal for transactions. So, yes.. Kinda like an ebay intergration but they aren't ebay.

For me, my classifieds are important to my site on a number of levels, and I didn't like taking them off my site.

Here is one site where the members did a poll about enthusify/panjo

http://www.pro-touring.com/threads/95788-PLEASE-VOTE!!!-Old-For-Sale-Section-or-New-Enthusify

 

Seems like another way for IB to make some money off it's customers and this is be driving them away from their own forums.

Seems logical..

 

Will this upgrade also support PHP 5.5, or just 5.4? Either way, seems to be a performance boost!

 

Dont think they tested PHP 5.5 only 5.4.

 

IB is not interested in long term relationships with their customers, they want profit now at this time they do not care what will happen next quarter or even next year.

I never understood why IB bought vBulletin in the first place, they could not be thinking when we have vBulletin where going to make tons of money with little investment.

 

Thanks @we_are_borg ! Do you know if 5.4 will have any performance gains over 5.3?

 

No i don't better ask people like @digitalpoint or George of vBulletin and a few others here on the forum they know more about that. I only know that 5.4 has improvements and so on and lots of changes.

 

5.4 has pretty big performance gains over 5.3 (uses less memory too). 5.5 is faster than 5.4 as well, but not as much as 5.4 is over 5.3.

http://news.php.net/php.internals/57760

 

Thanks very much, @digitalpoint !

 

Seems the new marketplace isn't much of a hit.

 

Yeah, IB is going have to keep eating sh**, as long as they keep up the silence about the mistakes they've made. The incredible thing about this is, they keep on going, as if nothing was wrong.

Scott

 

This is why they are failing. Management and support staff are hiding, instead of facing the truth.
It shows a decided lack of intestinal fortitude.