Vanilla 2 has been released now and it’s pretty cool!
However, some people have put a lot of time into their Vanilla 1 forums and just want to stay with that for now.
Dinoboff and I put a lot of effort into the unreleased Vanilla 1.2, and sadly we didn’t finish it before Vanilla 2 was released and the Vanilla 1 project basically died.
Still, we did some great work, we fixed some bugs that are present in 1.1.10 – and possibly introduced some new ones, hence the “beta” – so I am releasing our work for those who want it.
The main changes we implemented are:
- Updated default theme
It’s still the regular default theme (and the old one is still there for those who want it) but it is upgraded with new buttons, fonts and other small tweaks which I think looks better.
The old default theme also has some small bugfixes for layout inconsistencies, transparent icons are now allowed, etc. - Packaged extensions
There are now “trusted” extensions included in the download.
These are mostly extensions written by Dinoboff, me and Mark (Vanilla founder) as well as other trusted members of the community and they are all pretty good.
We were including the new extension Minify (which made it to Vanilla 2, as well) which just optimizes loading times, but I have removed it from this download since it is unfinished in Vanilla 1 and is too unstable to include.
Using these versions of the extensions instead of the released ones is highly recommended; in some cases we updated them a lot but never released the changes in a download. - Changed to jQuery from Prototype
Well this one explains itself. It’s faster and nicer to code for. - Improved security
There is improved protection against CSRF attacks in the core and extensions - Client-side image resizing
Similar to the IP.Board feature, this makes all images the are too big for the screen be confined to the screen. It’s nifty.
You can register to the demo site and muck around there if you want.
Demo
Download
If you want to make bug reports here that’s OK and I might fix them if I find the time, no promises though.
If you have code to contribute that’s cool too.
October 21, 2010 at 11:16 pm
Thanks. 🙂
March 15, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Thanks again for this. I’ve been having my forum grind to a halt with comments.php failing (premature end of script headers) these days, and am having a hell of a time figuring out why. Considering going to your 1.2 version in hopes it may help…
Any special advice or gotchas for upgrading for 1.1.10 users?
March 15, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Or a changelog? 😉
March 15, 2011 at 1:26 pm
@stwc: From what I remember, updating like normal should work 🙂