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Vanilla version 2021.009 is the latest stable release as of now
Please ignore all the buggy releases after Vanilla 2021.009.
It's important to note the difference between "release" and "version" here: while you might be able to build a completely fine running forum from the sources on GitHub if you are a developer, there hasn't been any release which wasn't usable out of the box since release 2021.009.
I've compiled a 2021.025 version and if you like to give that a try and report your experiences back, we might recommend that until a new release will be published officially.
R_J
Re: Vanilla version 2021.009 is the latest stable release as of now
I don't believe you'll ever see another pre-built copy of Vanilla distributed by the company. I'd love to be wrong, I just don't see it happening, knowing what I do about internal politics there.
I do expect to continue seeing automated unbuilt "releases" like you see on GitHub currently, because those are serving some of their enterprise customers via the Docker installation.
I'm willing to answer questions for any senior members here that want to build, vet, and update the latest version in the addon directory. Unfortunately I'm not willing to lead that process myself any longer. I kept those releases going by my own force of will for more than 5 years and I'm tapped out.
Linc
Re: Vanilla 2021.012 is now available
There are plans for getting on a more consistent release cadence. I'm hoping to have an announcement on this tomorrow.
Appreciate everyone's patience!
Andrew
Vanilla 2021.012 is now available
Today marks the official release of Vanilla 2021.012.
There have been some important changes to Vanilla since Vanilla 3.0. They've been stated in recent release posts, but I'll echo them here:
- Vanilla requires at least PHP 7.2. Future versions of Vanilla will require PHP 7.4+.
- MySQL 5.7+ is required.
- Full-text indexes have been disabled by default. You can enable them by adding a
Database.FullTextIndexingkey to your config and setting it totrue. Failure to do this before upgrading will result in your full-text database indexes being lost.
There's a long change log of fixes and features, spread across the RCs and recent "gold" releases. If you're curious, you can follow them:
Last, but not least, there's Vanilla 2021.012! You can checkout its change log and download the pre-built package, over on GitHub.
This is a major upgrade from 3.3. Please follow our upgrading guide. If you experience any issues, please post specifics (exact error messages, screenshots, etc.).
edu
Re: Vanilla 2021.009 no categories found
Okay so wow, some huge revelations here and @R_J you are amazing with your help. Even though a brand new version of 2021.012 looked like it was working with String values returned form the database it was NOT working!! I WAS WRONG (I can admit when I am wrong) I didn't even notice certain thing were not there like my user Icon was not showing up, there was no way to log off... And after adding custom permissions they were not being followed as you suspected @R_J . So after trying to figure out WTF was going on with the string thing and talking to my hosting provider they said they have no servers running MySQL 8.0 so that was not an option. After doing research as to how others fixed this with the 5.7 version of MySQL I realized they kept saying what @R_J was saying was that you need to be using the MySQLnd driver. I have cPanel on my server and this option was checked and in a phpinfo() it said it was installed. What I did not realize is that it was not using it! you cannot use PDO MySQL &PDO MySQLnd at the same time (Obviously). Because my cPanel options for PHP settings are in alphabetical order I figured all these settings would be under P for PDO but fond this little reply from someone else in an article that mention cPanel has this setting under the N section for ND (go figure) So I disabled pdo_mysql and then enabled 'nd_pdo_mysql' & 'mysqlnd' once these settings took place. I ran my test code again and now it was returning INT values form the database. (YEAH). I also tested with @R_Js test plugin, it was now also returning INT values (Success). I loaded the site and everything is now functional!
To any users before you do the update please check using @R_Js plugin to see if your server is returning STRING values or INT values. If your database is returning STRING values you will have to fix this BEFORE upgrading. If the returned values are STRING then you will have to update to use mysqlnd. For every user that will be different based on your server for cPapnel do the following:
This will ensure you are using MySQLnd and then run the test plugin again and you shoudl see INT values returned. I hope this helps others. I am going to do the update again and see if I run into issues this time!
MrCaspan
Vanilla 2021.011 is now available
Today marks the official release of Vanilla 2021.011.
There have been some important changes to Vanilla since Vanilla 3.0. They've been stated in recent release posts, but I'll echo them here:
- Vanilla requires at least PHP 7.2. Future versions of Vanilla will require PHP 7.4+.
- MySQL 5.7+ is required.
- Full-text indexes have been disabled by default. You can enable them by adding a
Database.FullTextIndexingkey to your config and setting it totrue. Failure to do this before upgrading will result in your full-text database indexes being lost.
There's a long change log of fixes and features, spread across the RCs and recent "gold" releases. If you're curious, you can follow them:
Last, but not least, there's Vanilla 2021.011! You can checkout its change log and download the pre-built package, over on GitHub.
This is a major upgrade from 3.3. Please follow our upgrading guide. If you experience any issues, please post specifics (exact error messages, screenshots, etc.).
dbarbier
Vanilla & Higher Logic - An Update!
Hey Everyone,
We meant to have something yesterday and I apologize for the delay. As you can imagine yesterday was a bit a big day for us, with lots of things going on. There was no intention to leave you out and I 100% understand the concern.
I can tell you we have spoken to the team at Higher Logic and Vanilla itself will continue to be maintained and we have no plans to discontinue our open source releases. I hope my words assure you, even if slightly delayed.
Thanks for all you do and the amazing communities you are building 🙂
Adrian
Adrian
New Moderators
I'm happy to announce that there are two new moderators in the team: Bleistivt and Kaspar!
From my understanding you should never notice moderators: they will help keeping the forum free from spammers, maybe split up some discussions where it makes sense and that's it.
Nevertheless that requires some work and I'm thankful that Kaspar and Bleistivt dedicate some of their precious time for the benefit of this community 👏
R_J
Vanilla 2021.009 (formerly Vanilla 4.0) is now available
Today marks the official release of Vanilla 2021.009, the release formerly known as 4.0.
There have been some important changes to Vanilla since the last release announced here. They've been stated in the RC announcement posts, but I'll echo them here:
- Vanilla 2021.009 requires at least PHP 7.2. Future versions of Vanilla will require PHP 7.4+.
- MySQL 5.7+ is required, starting with Vanilla 2021.009.
- Full-text indexes have been disabled by default. You can enable them by adding a
Database.FullTextIndexingkey to your config and setting it totrue. Failure to do this before upgrading to Vanilla 2021.009 will result in your full-text database indexes being lost.
There's a long change log of fixes and features, spread across the RCs and recent "gold" releases. If you're curious, you can follow the road from Vanilla 3.3 to Vanilla 2021.009:
Last, but not least, there's Vanilla 2021.009! You can checkout its change log and download the pre-built package, over on GitHub.
This is a major upgrade from 3.3. Please follow our upgrading guide. If you experience any issues, please post specifics (exact error messages, screenshots, etc.).
