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Since vBulletin 3 Beta 7 was released on September 27th, a little over a month has passed. In that time we have spent our efforts preparing the first Release Candidate of vBulletin 3.

Amongst the other things going on, these are the major activities in which the development team are currently engaged:

1. Fixing the remaining reported bugs.
2. Simplifying the variables being used in template conditionals
3. Making the templates multi-lingual by moving text into the language/phrase system
4. Completely rewriting all the templates to use the new vBulletin 3 style.

Many of you are interested in learning about the final style that will be unveiled with the RC for the first time. The new style will be much more than a few color changes. The current style distributed with the vBulletin 3 beta releases is little more than a cleaned-up version of the vBulletin 2 style, with the extra vBulletin 3 functionality shoe-horned into it, resulting in a lot of screen clutter and a confusing interface. On the other hand, the new vBulletin 3 style has been designed from the ground up to be the best possible window into the rich functionality of the new system. Our goals for the style include the following:

1. Reduce interface clutter in order to present a cleaner page to users, which is more friendly to novice users
2. Prioritize controls so that most frequently used buttons/links etc. are instantly available, while less frequently used or more complex features are hidden or made less obvious in order to prevent novice users from becoming confused or overwhelmed
3. Ensure XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliance for all templates
4. Update graphics with something a bit more modern

The new style will see a new way to present data to visitors, but will retain the essential vBulletin look-and-feel, so that the new interface will still be familiar to experienced users. The HTML of the new style is almost complete, and work will soon begin on the new graphical elements.

And so for the question on everyone's lips: When?

At the moment, we are looking at a date in late November for the release of vBulletin 3 RC1. Next week, we hope to be able to give you a more precise date for the RC1 release. At this time we don't have a solid estimate for the vBulletin 3 Final release date, but after RC1 goes out we will be able to evaluate how much work still needs to be done to complete the product, and then we will be able to offer you a potential date for the final release. I will say though, that right now I am thinking that the final release will not be too far behind RC1.

it is almost gold

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WOW, thanks for the update MG

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cool, should be good, will we be updating straight away?

it is not out yet
but soon
rc1 is the first step to gold

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Bet it will be out before Christmas

Fatman, why are you playing?

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What you going on about?

Those three posts that you thought you deleted, this is a vb 3 board you have to check remove this physically or something like that to delete

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Yes I realised that, I wasn't sure if other people could see them.

Oh, Ok then

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if you dont remove physically the other members can not see them
not even mods, just admins and super mods

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I really love this new delete system, it RULZ

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i heard it was goin to be out at 1/3/2004. (don't count on it-it is a rumor)

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Latest news .. RC1 possibly end of Nov / early December

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If Pigs could Fly ... Would the Price of Bacon Go up.

more bad news
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Last week we promised to announce a date for the Release Candidate of vBulletin 3, advancing our previous estimate of late November. As a result of the development significant time wasted in defending against the DDoS attacks mentioned above, I am afraid that we will be unable to meet the deadline we had expected to announce this week. However, I am pleased to say that work is progressing extremely well, and we are still confident that the next vBulletin 3 release will be made in late November.

In order to meet this late November deadline, we have decided to call the next release Gamma instead of Release Candidate 1. This is in recognition of the fact that there will undoubtably be minor bugs relating to the inclusion of a completely new style and totally rewritten templates. This gamma release will happen as soon as the style and language changes are complete, and is on schedule for a late November release, with Release Candidate 1 to follow shortly afterwards.

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gamma? wtf

Agrees with ^^Gamma? wtf

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yeah, dont ask me.....it must be better then beta

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Beta-->Gamma-->RC-->Gold ;)

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yeah i know, i just never heard of Gamma

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