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vBadvanced is proud to announce the release of vBa CMPS v3.0.0 ("Gold"). We are confident that the number of remaining bugs is minimal enough to warrant the "gold" release and also feel that the new features have brought things up to speed a bit. Current license holders will find the new version available for download in the Members' Area here.

New Features & Options

• New "Popular Tags" module to show your tags cloud on CMPS pages. Note this only works with vBulletin 3.7.
  
• New option added to the News module to allow you to split your news posts into multiple pages.
  
• New options with the stats module to allow for caching of the thread and post counts to prevent a query. Also a new option to fully cache the top poster and prevent another query. Additional options have also been added so that every stat (members, threads, posts, top poster, newest member) can be enabled/disabled via your Admin CP settings.
  
• New homepage caching option for guests. When enabled, the CMPS will store a cached copy of your homepage that will be displayed to guests. This should help to conserve resources on busier web sites.
  
• Visitor messages awaiting approval added to the Quick Moderation module for vB 3.7 users.
  
• The 'Integration' area in the Admin CP has been modified so that it is no longer necessary to keep previously integrated pages selected in any of the 3 integration method areas. This was done originally to allow for users to quickly and easily edit all of their pages. That seems to be confusing for some members though, so it has been changed to where it will only handle new integration and removing integration from pages must now be handled through the 'Current Integrated Pages' section.
  
• New option with the News and Recent Threads modules to display the thread prefix for vB 3.7 users.
  
• The attachment "paperclip" icon shown in the News and Recent Threads modules is now a clickable link that will show all attachments within the thread, the same as when browsing your forums.
  
• Modules can now be downloaded/uploaded in XML format as well as the original .module (serialized data) format.
  
• Template hook locations added to the Stats and Quick Moderation modules making it possible to display additional information in these modules without any template or file modifications.
  
• The Online Users/Buddy List module has been updated and optimized to only check for buddies if the Online Users module is not active, and to prevent a query for guests when only the Buddy List module is active but not the Online Users module.
  
• The Current Poll has been optimized a bit to prevent an unnecessary query that could occur with polls that allow multiple voting choices. A new index has also been added to the 'dateline' field in the 'poll' table so that field can be used to limit polls by their date instead of the 'dateline' column in the 'thread' table for better performance.
  
• The install file now has a new "Maintenance" section where the options to reinstall templates, phrases, and update images paths have been moved to. New options to rebuild settings and vBulletin plugins have also been added.
  
• When editing a module through the Admin CP, there is now a place next to the modules title that shows the modid for that module. The same has been added when editing CMPS pages to show the pageid.
  
• The select menus that show a list of your forums in the CMPS settings (example: Recent Threads Forums, News Forums, Current Poll Forums) has been changed so that categories are not selectable since choosing a category would not result in any threads being displayed.
  
• All currently known bugs and issues from v3.0 RC2 have been corrected. (link)

Files Changed Since v3.0 RC2

• admincp\vba_cmps_admin.php
• admincp\vbacmps_install.php
• clientscript\vba_cmps_admin.js
• includes\vba_cmps_adminfunctions.php
• includes\vba_cmps_error.php
• includes\vba_cmps_global.php
• includes\vba_cmps_include_bottom.php
• includes\vba_cmps_include_template.php
• includes\vba_cmps_include_top.php
• includes\xml\hooks_vbacmps.xml
• modules\currentpoll.php
• modules\moderate.php
• modules\navigation.php
• modules\news.php
• modules\onlineusers.php
• modules\recentthreads.php
• modules\stats.php

Files Removed
The following files are no longer necessary with v3.0.0 and may be removed from your server.

• includes/vba_cmps_include_output.php
• includes/vba_cmps_plugin_newpost.php

Templates Changed Since v3.0 RC2

• adv_portal_archivebits_exp
• adv_portal_archivebits_lean
• adv_portal_moderation
• adv_portal_newsbits
• adv_portal_poll
• adv_portal_polloption
• adv_portal_polloption_multiple
• adv_portal_pollresult
• adv_portal_recthreads_exp
• adv_portal_recthreads_lean
• adv_portal_stats

Upgrading
As usual, upgrade instructions may be found at the bottom of the readme.html file that comes with the download package.