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Vanilla 2.0 RC1

MarkMark
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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
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  • garymardellgarymardell
    Posts: 819
    @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 :)
  • TimTim
    Posts: 1,573
    Now, we sleep :)

    Vanilla Forums Senior Developer [GitHub, Twitter, About.me]

  • ChecksumChecksum
    Posts: 2
    Nice! Will upgrade immediately and see if everything goes smoothly
  • MBZMBZ
    Posts: 20
    Installed!
  • SS
    Posts: 458
    Sweet!
    All plugins wich uses garden/plugin/method are broken now. Haven't tried yet, but seems that changes are not critical for me :/
  • brantbrant
    Posts: 15
    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.
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    @brant - No, we're supporting PHP 5.2
  • LincolnLincoln
    Posts: 2,058
    Great work, guys. Sounds like you had a long day in Montreal; I'm kinda jealous. :)

    Vanilla developer [GitHub, Twitter]

  • MykeMyke
    Posts: 11
    This is awesome news.

    Keep up the great work V-Team!
  • sigsoundsigsound
    Posts: 1
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  • oinkfuoinkfu
    Posts: 40
    Installed...

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

    Fatal error: Class 'Format' blah blah blah ...
  • 2184665721846657
    Posts: 7
    Thank you guys! Awesome work!
  • candymancandyman
    Posts: 257
    Great news! I'll give a try tomorrow and I'll start an huge phpBB DB conversion... :|

    Thank you!
  • MarkMark
    Posts: 4,883
    @oinkfu - We did make a bunch of changes to views & core classes. If you change Format:: to Gdn_Format:: it will fix that problem :)
  • DykamDykam
    Posts: 132
    Hmm, that css file overhaul is being nasty, I probably have to redo the theme.

    @oinkfu, make it Gdn_Format.
  • bobthemanbobtheman
    Posts: 430
    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
  • candymancandyman
    Posts: 257
    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.
  • ToddTodd
    Posts: 1,584
    @candyman. The import won't require a user id of 1.

    Vanilla co-founder

  • bobthemanbobtheman
    Posts: 430
    is the universal exporter close to completion?
  • ToddTodd
    Posts: 1,584
    Yes it is. We are testing it with Vanilla 1 and vBulletin now.

    Vanilla co-founder

  • TerminalAddictTerminalAddict
    Posts: 60
    @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
  • MagShareMagShare
    Posts: 17
    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.
  • LincolnLincoln
    Posts: 2,058
    @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.

    Vanilla developer [GitHub, Twitter]

  • ToddTodd
    Posts: 1,584
    @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.

    Vanilla co-founder

  • lucluc
    Posts: 1,015
    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.
  • MagShareMagShare
    Posts: 17
    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.
  • oinkfuoinkfu
    Posts: 40
    Thanks @Mark and @Dykam.
  • RainulfRainulf
    Posts: 58
    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_lightyearbuzz_lightyear
    Posts: 12
    Great! Many thanxs...
    It works nicely..
  • blizeHblizeH
    Posts: 840
    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!
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