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Jelsoft just released vBulletin 3.7.0 Gold on April 29th, right alongside the new vBulletin price changes. Good timing on their behalf, because now there is even more motivation to upgrade those licenses and buy some new ones! Starting immediately vBulletin license owners will be able to access vBulletin 3.7.0 from the member’s area.

Some of the main features introduced in vBulletin 3.7.0 are search cloud and tag cloud, viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits, extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions, thread prefixes, reciprocal friendships between forum users, public visitor messaging on profile pages with conversation feature, user picture galleries with user comment facility, extended member profile pages, customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities, user-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options, inline editing of custom user profile fields, lightbox viewer for attached images, inline spam management and prevention, thread tagging, notices system for navigation bar, multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A, user change history and social bookmarking integration.

vBulletin 3.7.0 maintains the same requirements as 3.6.x (a PHP 4.3.3 and MySQL 4.0.16 enabled server), but Jelsoft recommends PHP 5.2.5 with APC and MySQL 5.0.51 or later, citing significant performance improvements on this configuration.

You can read all about the new release here.

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