vBulletin 4.2 / 5.0 Connect Beta 28

The forum platform is an effective way of keeping visitors coming back or providing support for customers.

With the new Publishing Suite, webmasters can now even manage complete websites, not only discussion boards.

Here are some key features of "vBulletin":

· Scalable
· Cross-platform tested
· Adavnced members and membership plans management
· Advanced permissions system
· Admin control panel
· Simple cross-publishing
· Themes
· Plugins
· SEO friendly
· Automatic Google XML sitemap generation
· SSL support
· Captcha verification
· Email verification
· Well-documented and lots of community support
· Localized
· Metadata support
· Standards compliant code
· Content syndication
· Unlimited forums
· Add private forums
· Thread display options
· Printer friendly versions on threads
· Easy video embedding (YouTube, Vimeo, Hulu, Dailymotion, Google, Metacafe, etc)
· Multiple thread view options
· Supports BB Code in posts
· Supports HTML in post
· Smilies
· User avatars
· User profile pages
· WYSIWYG or standard editors
· Attachments
· Quick reply
· Post rating system
· User reputation system
· Add polls to threads
· Post reporting
· User post count
· Member list
· Member search tool
· Private messaging system
· Friends list
· Who's Online widget
· User signatures system
· Board statistics
· Maintentance tools
· Post pruning options
· Import and export content from the board
· Template engine and layouts
· Payment & advertisement integration
· Create and manage static pages

Built-in Applications:
· Discussion / Forum
· Photo Albums
· Groups
· Calendar
· Events Management
· Polls
· Blog
· Article-based CMS Publishing

Requirements:

· PHP 4.3.3 or higher
· MySQL 4.0.16 or higher

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size
· Channel manager doesn't show any channels after upgrade
· API doesn't validate setfor value when creating a VM
· IP/Email banning options are not working
· Fatal error under Thread Manager / Move Threads
· Failing question and answer verification hides answer field - cannot type new answer