vBulletin 4.1.11 released – improved CMS performance, Premium Mobile Style and CDN support
vBulletin 4.1.11 is a maintenance release focused on improving performance, resolving issues in the CMS, Premium Mobile Style, and issues with high user impact.
The release contains:
- 11 user created hook requests, improvement requests, and feature requests.
- 37 issue fixes related to the CMS.
- 31 issue fixes with a severity of Major or higher.
- 15 issue fixes for MAPI and Mobile Style.
- The Premium Mobile Style has been merged into 4.1.11 as part of the standard Mobile Style. A vBulletin Mobile Suite license is no longer required in order to download and install the Premium Mobile Style on forums running vBulletin 4.0-4.1.10. All future vBulletin 4 releases, including vBulletin 4.1.11, will include moderator and administration functionality in the standard Mobile Style.
- Master Mobile Style to support Mobile Style customization and streamline the upgrade process.
- CMS Template Caching to increase performance.
- CDN Support to increase performance.
Of particular note:
- VBIV-14406 Merge Premium Mobile Style into vB4 Core.
- VBIV-12613 Get the mobile style into a proper master style
- VBIV-13151 Mobile Style Install Script
- VBIV-13866 If Blog Style Override is set Blog Mobile Style doesn’t work
- VBIV-11328 Mobile style doesn’t work while Allow Users to Change Style is set to No
- VBIV-13851 Android/Blackberry browser won’t hold user selected style
- VBIV-13328 Detect Windows 7 Phone as mobile_browser_advanced
- VBIV-14263 Template Caching in the CMS
- VBIV-952 CMS – post promoted to article splits discussion
- VBIV-8861 Multiple Threads created for VBCMS Articles
- VBIV-2989 General Search Widget: Caching not working
- VBIV-9497 CMS previewimage should not be stored as full URL
- VBIV-7869 Guests can only rate CMS articles when the permission “Edit Others’ Content” is active
- VBIV-6775 Change the way Meta Description field is automatically filled in CMS articles
- VBIV-14224 vBulletin should temporarily disable Facebook Connect if Facebook is unreachable
- VBIV-14055 Serve jQuery from Google CDN in vBulletin 4 Core.
- VBIV-14014 Serve YUI from Google CDN
- VBIV-14079 Can’t upload images with the ‘Insert Image’ popup on Chrome/OSX
- VBIV-14223 External RSS feeds in Arabic are no longer displaying correctly in 4.1.10 when they used to work in 4.1.8
Additional Changes since the 4.1.11 BETA 1 Release:
- VBIV-14214 (REVERT) CKeditor initial lag and lost characters
- VBIV-14389 Typo in a AdminCP setting
- VBIV-14376 More encoding issues
- VBIV-14389 Correct phrase version number
- VBIV-14406 Merge Premium Mobile Style into vB4 Core.
4.1.11 contains a total of 166 bug fixes, hook requests, improvement requests, and feature requests. A full list of these changes can be found HERE.
