vBulletin 6.0.4 Changes and Updates
Home Node Permissions
Handling the channel permissions of the Home Node has been refactored.
- The Terms of Service page, Privacy Policy page, and AdminCP login will always be available even if guests cannot view the Home Node.
- You can now assign viewing permissions per page in the AdminCP under Usergroups → Page Permissions. Page Permissions allow control over page viewing to fit your site’s needs.
- Special Groups (i.e., Channel groups) will not be listed in the Page Permission Manager. These groups are managed internally.
Paypal API
Paypal’s Payment API has been added as a vBulletin Gateway. The new gateway will allow Administrators to move away from Paypal’s IPN functionality and add new payment methods to their site.
Please note that the IPN Gateway is now considered deprecated and will be removed in the future.
Article Sorting
The Article Channel Display module now allows sorting articles by Display Order, Date-last update, Date-Started Post, Replies, Title, Members, Reactions, and Publish Date. You can also order the results ascending or descending. The default sorting is Publish Date, which is ordered by descending dates.
To control the Display Order of your articles, visit the AdminCP and go to Articles → List Content.
New Template Markup
We have added a new vBulletin Markup tag to test for usergroups to the system. This tag provides simpler markup to check if a user belongs to a specific usergroup over using the markup with ismemberof() code from previous versions.
Usage:
<!-- Check if a user is a member of a usergroup -->
<vb:usergroup groupid="2">
You are in the registered usergroup.
</vb:usergoup>
<!-- Check if the user is not a member of a usergroup -->
<vb:usergroup notgroupid="2">
You are not part of the registered usergroup.
</vb:usergroup>
<!-- You can also check multiple groups: -->
<vb:usergroup groupid="X,Y,Z">
….
</vb:usergroup>
Template Organization
Global page templates are now grouped in the Style Manager template under Page. The affected templates include header, bare_header, footer, bare_footer, head_include, page_date, and preheader. Each template has had the page_ prefix added to its name. If you use these templates in custom coding, please adjust accordingly.
Template Grouping
vBulletin will now match the longest group name to reduce improper merging. Due to this, some groups will be split compared to previous versions. For example, previously, subscription and subscriptions were treated as the same group even though the templates weren’t related to each other. Now, they are separate.
Cache Limits
Cache Limits are now available. The limits are to prevent large database caches on some server configurations. The limits consist of two new configuration variables:
- maxtablesize – defines the maximum size of your cache and cacheevents tables in megabytes.
- maxtabledeletecount – the number of unexpired records to delete from your cache tables.
To enable the limits, copy the lines below into your /core/includes/config.php file:
// When clearing expired cache items, additional items will be removed if the cache table exceeds this size (in Mb).
$config['Cache']['maxtablesize'] = 500;
// The number of (unexpired) records to remove when the cache tables are too big. If 0, then empty the cache.
$config['Cache']['maxtabledeletecount'] = 0;
Skipping these lines or leaving them commented out will disable the system and the cache will maintain its previous behavior.
Note: These lines exist in the /core/includes/config.php.new file when installing a new instance.
Javascript
We have removed the inline Javascript used to define the Page Object. The Page Object is now defined using HTML’s data attributes.
- More inline Javascript was removed from the AdminCP.
- Added cache busting to AdminCP Javascript.
- Moved the jQuery fallback out of inline Javascript.
Additional Changes
- Node Tools → Open The ability to mass open topics has been added to the AdminCP under Node Tools.
- Posting Options are no longer available on the Home node.
- Improved text indexing with accented characters (For example: à, é, and õ). Previously, search indexing could skip these characters if a similar word without accents was indexed first.
- Payment Gateway currency symbols can now be edited outside of debug mode. You can add new currencies in the AdminCP under Settings → Options → Paid Subscriptions. Please note that your payment gateway will still need to be able to support the currency as defined.
- The Today’s Birthday module will be automatically hidden if there are no active birthdays on the date.
- Consolidated the default Terms of Service information from three phrases and locations to one location.
Additional Information
Install / Upgrade
File Cleanup
After upgrading your vBulletin system, you should delete any possible obsolete files. You can obtain more information on why this is needed and instructions on how to do this in this topic in the vBulletin 6 Installs & Upgrades forum.
System Requirements
Minimum System Requirements
- PHP Version: 8.0.0
- MySQL Version: 5.7.10
- MariaDB Version: 10.6.0
Recommended System Requirements
- PHP Version: 8.2 or higher
- MySQL Version: 8.0 or higher
- MariaDB Version: 10.11+
For more information, see vBulletin Connect System Requirements.
Current Version Support Schedule
- Active Version – 6.0.3
- Security Patch – 6.0.2
- Security Patch – 6.0.1
- Security Patch – 5.7.5
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