If things have seemed quiet on the vBulletin development front for a few months, it's because the whole team has been hard at work getting vBulletin 3.5 ready for its public debut.

We have decided to name this new version '3.5.0' rather than '3.1.0' because the code contains some rather fundamental changes at a core level in order to support some of the new features we have implemented, some of which I will describe briefly here.
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Some new key features:

• Hooks and Plugins
• Inline Moderation
• AJAX Integration
• Data APIs (Data Managers)
• Template History and Comparison
• Database-Based Thread and Forum Read Marking
• MySQL Full Text Search
• Additional Datastore Storage Methods
• SMTP Mail Wrapper
• MySQLi Wrapper
• PHPDoc'd Source Code

To see a full list of all new features mentioned, please see the origional thread.


And Then The Big Question...

So naturally you want to know when you can have all these goodies running on your own server?

If our current schedules pan out, we are hoping to have vBulletin 3.5 running the vBulletin.com forums next week, and if that goes well, we will release vBulletin 3.5 to public beta by early June.

We hope that this update has whet your appetite for vBulletin 3.5, and we look forward to bringing you the new code soon.

If you would like to discuss this announcement, a thread for you to do so is available here.

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