vBSEO 3.5.0 RC1 PL1 Released

Hello vBSEO Friends and Customers,

Following the release of vBSEO 3.5 Release Candidate 1,we noticed some important bug reports regarding character replacements for non english boards and some other important bugs. As we want vBSEO function perfectly we decided to release a new RC1 PL1 version that fixes many reported bugs and includes some new options inside vBSEO Control Panel. You may download vBSEO 3.5 RC1 PL1 now from the downloads area.

RC1 PL1 fixes all major bugs reported since the release of RC1 this week. Thank you everyone who has installed our Beta builds and have filed bug reports via our Bug Reporting forum.

Updated file structure in vBSEO 3.5
Instructions for installing and upgrading to vBSEO 3.5 RC1 PL1 have been updated and are included in the readme.html file in the download package, in the /docs folder.

As of Beta 2, vBSEO 3.5 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
*includes/cron/vbseo_serviceupdate.php
*/images/vbseo/[all files]
*/images/vbseo/


Notable fixes and updates since RC1 PL1:

• Broken Linkback notification emails
• Upgrade not restoring settings from datastore
• Attachement rewrites and respective 301 redirects
• New Character Replacements Options
  • Enable Utf8 Support
  • Enable special character usage in member profiles
  • Enable Character Filter in Tags
  • Enable Character "No Urlencoding"
• Character Replacements fix for non english boards
• New Choose vBSEO Copyright Option
• New Display vBSEO version inside Copyright Notice Option
• CMS Homepage redirect
• New Define Cache Prefix Option
• Data restore errors on CRR , Custom Redirects , Linkback Blacklist fixed
• New Acronym Autolink Format option
• Save Reset Button css fixes
• Bugs with certain characters on Relevant Replacements
• Control Panel Internet Explorer 6-7 issues
• Miscellaneous refinements to the CRR module
• Many other minor fixes and updates

Important Notices:

• Make sure you backup your settings before upgrading
• Make sure that config.xml is chmod 666 to be able to set a new password for your Control Panel
• Please report all bugs discovered via the vBSEO Plugin Bug Reporting Forum, NOT via this thread.
• Make sure you set your vBulletin Friendly URLs settings to Standard Urls
• Character Replacement Options has a usability change. Please check Character Replacement option detailed and re-apply your character replacements.

Please report all bugs you discover within vBSEO SEO Plugin - Bug Reporting at vBSEO.com

Enjoy!