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We are pleased to announce the launch of the vBulletin Facebook Application, available soon for your community!

This exciting new product comes in response to the ongoing demand from you asking vBulletin for assistance in leveraging the Facebook platform. The vBulletin Facebook application will help you drive more traffic and engagement to your community by creating a new interactive social community experience for new and existing users.

The vBulletin Facebook App allows site owners to engage existing community members, as well as attract new users by leveraging Facebook’s vast social network.

Promote User Engagement:

• Add a fresh new way of letting new and existing community members interact with your forum directly from Facebook. Your application can be customized and branded to promote your community’s brand awareness throughout the Facebook social network.
• Your application users and their social network see featured highlights of your community’s content in their News Feeds, increasing activity on your forum and promoting additional page views.

• Enhance your community’s Facebook fan page by linking the app to your page to bring additional new functionality to your Facebook fans.

Expand Your Community’s Reach and Attract New Users:

• Posts created with the vBulletin Facebook app appear in users’ News Feeds, promoting your community and content to their friends!
• Your community becomes an active part of the vast vBulletin Social Network, promoting your site to Facebook friends of your members and other people who are using the vBulletin app to access other vBulletin forums

The vBulletin Facebook app is an economical investment in the growth and involvement of your community! The vBulletin Facebook app works with vBulletin sites running vBulletin version 3.7.5 and higher.

Important Notices Before Using the App

• The application is not yet available for sale
• The application is currently in Beta, this means that it will be evolving and improving in the coming days
• You MUST use Facebook Connect functionality on vBulletin.com in order to use the app, otherwise it will prompt you to Register a New Account
• A more technical blog post detailing the App technology and functionality will be made available soon.
• Suggestions and Problems? Please use our Tracker: HERE.
• Licensed Customers' Discussion Thread for the product can be located HERE.

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vBulletin 4.1.6 is now available for download from your members area.

Important: vBulletin 4.1.6 is focused on delivering major updates to the vBulletin Mobile Style only - it has no updates or fixes for the core software. The shortly upcoming vBulletin 4.1.7 release focuses on bug fixes and will contain massive amount of updates to the core software. Please plan your upgrade path accordingly - you may skip 4.1.6 if you do not use the mobile style system.

Mobile Style update
This incorporates

• Blog and CMS functionaility
• Expanded mobile browser support

Change log:

We have made a number of the fixes to the mobile style in the product:

A full list of these fixes can be found here.

Again, thank you to everyone who has filed bugs in our bug tracker, we sincerely appreciate your assistance - and we hope with this release that we have addressed a large number of the bugs that you have raised.
If you come across any bugs in the product, please continue to file them in our new tracker.

Feedback on the product is welcomed here for licensed customers.

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vBulletin 4.1.6 Beta 1 is now available for download from your members area.

Important: vBulletin 4.1.6 is focused on major updates to the vBulletin Mobile Style - it has no updates and fixes for the core software. The shortly upcoming vBulletin 4.1.7 release focuses on bug fixes and will contain massive amount of updates to the core software.

Please note:

• We do not provide support for Beta versions
• We do not recommend Beta software to be installed on production sites.
• We always recommend that you back up your database fully before attempting to install Beta software.

Mobile Style update
This incorporates

• Blog and CMS functionaility
• Expanded mobile browser support

Change log:

We have made a number of the fixes to the mobile style in the product:

A full list of these fixes can be found here.

Again, thank you to everyone who has filed bugs in our bug tracker, we sincerely appreciate your assistance - and we hope with this release that we have addressed a large number of the bugs that you have raised.
If you come across any bugs in the product, please continue to file them in our new tracker.

Feedback on the product is welcomed here for licensed customers.

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On behalf of all the staff at vBulletin, we would like to thank Steve Machol for his efforts and dedication in championing our support team over the past ten years at vBulletin.
Steve officially resigned from his role as Customer Support Manager last Friday, and we would like to wish him all the best in his future endeavors.

We intend to have an announcement about Steve's replacement shortly.

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vBulletin.com iPhone Application has been upgraded to the improved version 1.1.3

Please note that version 1.1.3 iPhone application is not yet available for your site via the Mobile Publisher. We are hoping to finalize the release and make it available to you shortly.

As always, if you would like to report an issue with the iPhone app - please use the issue tracker located at the following url: http://tracker.vbull....com/browse/VBI

If you'd like to discuss the iPhone application, you may do so in the following forum: https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/foru...n-Mobile-Suite

Included in this release are 11 bug fixes and overhauled / re-factored code updates, focusing mainly on the following functionality:

• New and Improved Pagination Bar
• Drag to Refresh
• Bug Fix List: Click Here

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