vBET 3.3.4 released

[vBET]

Hello

We have for you new release of vBET. In this version we have performance improvements (most important one - full file cache for guests) and also some new features and few bugs corrected. Enjoy!

New:

• Performance improvements
  
  • Earlier redirects for vBSEO wrong URLs
  • Full file cache for guests
    
    • Configurable file cache time to live
    • Configurable file cache time to live for less relevant pages
    • Configurable set of less relevant pages
    • Configurable set of pages ignored by full file cache for guests
  • All flags images taken as one file from server (css sprite supported)
• Ignored words/sentences functionality
  
  • Supports: posts, group messages, visitor messages, picture comments, private messages
• Opaque ignored words in already existing messages
  
  • Supports: posts, group messages, visitor messages, picture comments
• Option to not translate content of code html tag

Changed templates:

• vbenterprisetranslator_inpost_translate
• vbenterprisetranslator_inpost_translate_alreadyin
• vbenterprisetranslator_flag

Bugs corrected:

• Defined dir for vbseo
• Span breaking some layouts
• Translate langtitle when answering message
• Archive with vBSEO 3.5
• Saving custom profile fields under translated page
• Broken langtitle for long titles with auto 'Re:' option
• langtitle parsed for newreply on translated view
• Multi langtitle opaque

And few words about new Full File Cache for Guests functionality. When turn on it will check does request is from user which is not logged in. If it is from guest then it will check does result is not already cached. In case it is - full HTML response will be taken from cache. If not then it will be cached after output is generated. Please note that it will work also for your original pages - so it will improve generation time and make less DB queries also for not translated pages. It is highly configurable. It means that you can configure not only cache time, but you can also define which pages you confider less relevant and for those pages you can set longer cache time. By default cache time for normal pages is 1 hour (it means that guests can see forum changes after 1 hour if page was just cached) and for less relevant pages by default it is 15 days. Of course it is configurable by Admin CP. Also you can define which pages should be ignored by Full File Cache for Guest.
We were testing it for some time on our forums, still we consider this functionality as BETA. Also please note that you will have to set appropriate privileges to cache directory to be able to use it - otherwise cache files will not be generated. Details in configuration description.

PS.
We will include it also in vBET 4.x soon

[Snake]

I dont understand this file cache, why would you need a 2nd cache, the main one already caches pages and only updates when new content is added, so why cache it for 1 hour again, your explanation is difficult to understand.

[vBET]

I dont understand this file cache, why would you need a 2nd cache, the main one already caches pages and only updates when new content is added, so why cache it for 1 hour again, your explanation is difficult to understand.

Database cache caches only translations. Not whole HTML content. So when some translated page is generated, then first normal page is generated and after that it is parsed and translated. During translation DB cache is used and translated sentences are taken from there. Just sentences - not whole HTML, because each time translations can be different (i.e. different privileges of users, changed content). One HTML page can have hundreds of sentences to translate - vBET takes content between HTML tags. Thanks DB cache those translations don't have to be taken each time from Google - what consumes lot of time - instead of that, those are taken from your local DB. Still - normal page have to be generated and after that translated.

Full File Cache For Guests works only for guests. Thanks that we do not have to worry that users have different privileges and see different things. ll guests see the same content. Because of that we do not have to parse result and translate it piece by piece each time - we can simply do it one a while and cache full HTML output. So in this case when full page is not cached, or cached content is too old, then normal translation occurs - just like described before. But this time at the very end full HTML output is written to file. So next time when same request comes from guest we do not generate even normal page content - we simply stream to guest already cached HTML file. That is why we save lot of SQL queries, CPU and memory. We just give to user content from static file. That is why it is important to determine how long this cache will be valid. Because if something will change - i.e. new post will arrive to thread, then guests will not see this new post until already cached file expires. After that during next request, again normal page will be generated, translated, and cached - and this content guests will see i.e. for another hour (configurable). They will not see any changes until cached file expires again. Of course your users will see everything, because it works only for guests (so for robots also, because robots crawl your forum as guests).

Please tell did it help and in case of any questions just ask - we will gladly describe it more

[linuxtuts]

Super Mate !!

Thanks a million,

Darn: Thought this was for 4.0.x...Cool either way though...Can't wait for 4.0.x version.

[vBET]

Super Mate !!

Thanks a million,

Darn: Thought this was for 4.0.x...Cool either way though...Can't wait for 4.0.x version.

It will be, it will be Most new things are already tested there. We just have more to do in case of Full File Cache for Guests on vB4, because we support there translation of more kinds of URLs for vBSEO and also Friendly URLs from vB. And of all of those we have to test it very carefully and still have to implement support of earlier redirect for some of those. Also - we will use this additional time to check any possible issues with Full File Cache For Guests (which is considered BETA now) on vB3 forums. We test it well, but it is always better to care more about good quality

[bhanuprasad1981]

waiting for 4.x version

[Goanna]

waiting for 4.x version

Hello,

I will also wait for 4.x version ;-)

[Snake]

How do i edit the css for the flags please, need to change how they display as it looks weird as it is.

[steve]

Is customer support currently available? This latest update is causing redirect loops and I need assistant urgently.

[vBET]

Is customer support currently available? This latest update is causing redirect loops and I need assistant urgently.

We got your email and check it. We cannot reproduce it on your server. You got response with question about exact URL which have this loop. Please check it and answer there