Preview versions of 3.6.6 have been running on a number of forums for the last few weeks as well as vbulletin.com - and Jelsoft have announced today that all being well, it will be officially released this Friday May 11th.

Therefore, barring unforseen circumstances, vBulletin 3.6.6 will be released this Friday, May 11th 2007.

Version 3.6.6 contains all the bug fixes that were ommitted from 3.6.5 and includes several changes and improvements, most notably full support for the upcoming Project Tools and Blog products and several new hook locations. We will include more information about the changes in the release announcement on Friday. This will be a fairly major upgrade with several database alterations, so ensure that your backups are up-to-date before upgrading.

vBulletin Project Tools

The new vBulletin Project Tools system has been running here on vBulletin.com for several weeks now and has proved to be a big improvement over the previous bug tracker. Development on the system is all but completed now and following the release of vBulletin 3.6.6 it will be time to commence the private beta stage. This will happen early next week.

If you would like to be considered for the private beta program, time is running out, as the application system will be closed when vBulletin 3.6.6 is released to the public on Friday.

To those who have already applied to be included in the private beta - thank you. We will be contacting those we have selected to test the code for us shortly. Once again, if you are not selected to be a beta tester, please do not be offended - it's nothing personal, we simply have a specific set of conditions we need to test and your board may not fit the bill.

vBulletin Blog

Development on the vBulletin Blog product is going well. The blogging aspect of the system is 90% complete at this stage and our focus has now switched to the social networking component.

For those asking about release dates, without being too specific I can say that the blog is on schedule to be at least in the beta stage before the end of Q2 2007.

We hope to be able to bring you some more information and some blog screenshots in the next few weeks.

I'm Very interested in the Blog

I wont be changing from Adrian's great script, but I like to see alternatives. Maybe it will be more like the one AdminFusion :: Get Connected with Forum Owners has

Ditto! But if they're thinking about charging extra for it then they can keep it! Wordpress works incredibly well, thank you very much

So these list of modifications their creating like this blog etc are these going to be free or will they be charging?

Like CL said, if they think they are charging then they can keep it because I think I will be turning to wordpress regardless of whether it's free or paid.

They were always going to be commercial/paid scripts weren't they?

I would doubt that their blog would be as well made as Wordpress's anyway. At least not the first version of it. Wordpress is an excellent product. vB would be smarter marketing wise if they offered their blog for free, BUT you needed a vB (forum) license for it to work. In other words it would be a free companion product. That would then attract new customers, but vB has never had a good marketing department, so I doubt that they will ever think of this :p

And yet again they mess things up

they have now released 3.6.7 which was also found to have some problems and a set of patches are now out for 3.6.7 & 3.6.6

So i'm sure this means shortly we will be jumping from 3.6.5 to 3.6.8

what is 3.6.7 PL ??

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LOL :nervous: Well that's gotta be embarrassing for them :p

Butits a flaw in all 3.6.x. I think we should be glad that they fixed it, even if its coincidently after a new release