Attention all vBSEO Customers,

Following the release of vBulletin 4 Release Candidate 4, I'm happy to announce that vBSEO 3.5 is now on Beta 2 and we are making it available to all licensed users for testing. You may download vBSEO 3.5 Beta 2 now from the downloads area.

The new vBSEO Control Panel is here!
As stated in the vBSEO 3.5 Beta 1 release announcement, Beta 2 would be the first build to feature the updated Control Panel. Today we are happy to confirm that this is a reality!

New file structure in vBSEO Beta 2
Instructions for installing and upgrading to vBSEO 3.5 Beta 2 have been updated and are included in the readme.html file in the download package, in the /docs folder.

vBSEO 3.5 Beta 2 introduces a different file system structure which requires manual deletion of files located in the deprecated location. FTP into your site and delete the following files to maintain the best security of your website as these are no longer needed with vBSEO 3.5:

*/vbseocpform.php
*/includes/config_vbseo.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_cache.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_createurl.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_crr.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_db.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_hook.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_linkback.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_misc.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_pre.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_seo.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_startup.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_url.php
*/includes/functions_vbseo_vb.php
*/includes/md5_sums_crawlability_vbseo.php
*/images/vbseo/[all files]
*/images/vbseo/

Known issues in vBSEO 3.5 Beta 2
During final QA tonight we have found a fault with the Custom Rewrite Rules and Custom Redirects modules. When saving any of your vbseocp.php settings, any CRRs/Custom 301s that you have defined will be commented out and they will not have any effect on your site.

We considered holding off this release until this bug was fixed but we though it was a better choice to allow you to have access to the new control panel and to test the other features.

I should stress even more with release, this is a BETA build and is intended for testing and bug reporting purposes in a development environment only and should not be used on a mission-critical live environment.

This announcement will be updated once a Beta 2 build that fixes the known issues is made available.

Other notes:

• Please report all bugs discovered via the vBSEO Plugin Bug Reporting Forum, NOT via this thread.
• If you are receiving redirect loop within your forum URL's , please make sure you set Friendly URLs settings to Standard Urls

Enjoy!


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