Vanilla 2.0 RC1

Mark

I am extremely pleased to announce the Vanilla 2.0 Release Candidate 1.

About This Release

This version of the code has been completely cleaned up, with a number of big changes for those of you who were running the old version from our GitHub master branch. To name a few: we have renamed the "garden" application to "dashboard", and we have made database table changes, index changes, and data changes.

We fully expect there to be issues with this release candidate, do not use on production systems.

Requirements

• PHP version 5.2.0 or newer
• MySQL version 5 or newer
• Apache version 2 or newer

Installing

1. Unzip the package to the desired folder on your server.
2. Create a database for Vanilla (named whatever you like).
3. Browse to the folder in your web browser, and follow the instructions on-screen.

Troubleshooting the Vanilla 2 Installation

If you run into any issues during the installation, you may see the "Bonk" error screen. In order to get past this screen, you can remove the following line from your conf/config.php file:

$Configuration['Garden']['Errors']['MasterView'] = 'error.master.php';

This will show you a more detailed screen of information about the actual problem you've encountered. Please include this information when reporting issues (copy & paste exact errors, please).

Upgrading Pre-RC1 Vanilla 2 Forums

1. Sign into your existing forum with the user that has UserID = 1
2. Back up your database.
3. Back up all of your existing files.
4. Unarchive the new files and copy them over your existing files.
5. Navigate to the page in your forum that updates your database (this will not work if you did not sign in as UserID = 1): www.yourdomain.com/path/to/vanilla/utility/structure
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button to run the update scripts
7. Navigate to your forum and test away!

Reporting Issues

DO NOT REPORT ISSUES ON THE COMMUNITY FORUM

Please report all issues on the GitHub Issue Tracker. Remember to do a quick search through the issues to make sure your issue has not already been added or resolved.

Where to Download

We have merged all of our RC changes into our master branch, and we have tagged the RC 1 release. You can browse the tagged release here:

http://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/tree/Vanilla_2.0_rc1

And you can download the package here:

http://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/zipball/Vanilla_2.0_rc1

garymardell

@Mark Awesome news, I will be sure to test it soon and let you know how it goes. What a time to release the news :)

Tim

Now, we sleep :)

Checksum

Nice! Will upgrade immediately and see if everything goes smoothly

MBZ

Installed!

S

Sweet!
All plugins wich uses garden/plugin/method are broken now. Haven't tried yet, but seems that changes are not critical for me :/

brant

Mark, just curious but will Vanilla 2.0 final require that you have PHP 5.3.0+ installed?

I ask because there are instances where 5.3.0 wreaks havoc on older apps.

Mark

@brant - No, we're supporting PHP 5.2

Lincoln

Great work, guys. Sounds like you had a long day in Montreal; I'm kinda jealous. :)

Myke

This is awesome news.

Keep up the great work V-Team!

sigsound

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oinkfu

Installed...

Everything worked perfectly in the upgrade, except my old theme had the error:

Fatal error: Class 'Format' blah blah blah ...

21846657

Thank you guys! Awesome work!

candyman

Great news! I'll give a try tomorrow and I'll start an huge phpBB DB conversion... :|

Thank you!

Mark

@oinkfu - We did make a bunch of changes to views & core classes. If you change Format:: to Gdn_Format:: it will fix that problem :)

Dykam

Hmm, that css file overhaul is being nasty, I probably have to redo the theme.

@oinkfu, make it Gdn_Format.

bobtheman

i have a pre-install error that i've been unable to fix yet, posted on github here

http://github.com/vanillaforums/Garden/issues#issue/290

candyman

This is not an issue but a pre-install question: on my phpBB community the user ID=1 doesn't exist, it has been cancelled: this may cause a problem during the conversion? I'd like to made the conversion from phpBB to Vanilla1 and then upgrade to Vanilla2.

Let me know, thanks.

Todd

@candyman. The import won't require a user id of 1.

bobtheman

is the universal exporter close to completion?

Todd

Yes it is. We are testing it with Vanilla 1 and vBulletin now.

TerminalAddict

@bobtheman
is php running as a cgi? (I'm guessing so .. under suexec) and the php files aren't owned by the user that php is running as.

Happens all the time on my host, and it is ALWAYS file ownership

MagShare

Looks like it might just require 5.3. It fails to install on my 5.2.9 server (It installs, but does not run), but works fine on my 5.3 laptop, which is actually less studly than the server.
It's really difficult to diagnose. I've done a number of installs and wipes. Tried installing v.1 first. It's the server's config.
I'm gonna have to give up for a while.

Lincoln

@bobtheman Just did a successful export from vBulletin; now going to go work on finishing up the importer. Once the framework is done the other forum packages will follow in shorter order.

Todd

@MagShare your problem is most certainly an issue with the web server and not php. @Tim is currently debugging nginx and fastcgi which should hopefully help you with your install.

luc

nginx/fastcgi works fine. That's what I've used since I installed it.
I haven't had time to upgrade to rc1 though, so I can't vouch for that particular relase.

MagShare

Thanks, Todd and Lincoln!

I can work with you quite a bit. The symptom is that classes aren't being instantiated. You can also see this in some of the AJAX dialogs and whatnot (none of them work).

You can consider that [broken] install to be a lab, and I can help you to debug it.

The Web server is run by Nexcess, and they run us.php.net. I'd *hope* it would a solid PHP server.

oinkfu

Thanks @Mark and @Dykam.

Rainulf

Nice! I reported some bugs (not sure if it is) already.
And oh yeh, fix the link here: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/9714/how-to-submit-a-bug-report/

buzz_lightyear

Great! Many thanxs...
It works nicely..

blizeH

A few teething problems since updating from the old version (especially with plugins, and a few other bugs too) but on the whole it's awesome, love it - great work guys!