History
3.8.4, 11th August 2009
This is one of the biggest releases of vBExperience!

I have redesigned the whole Awards feature, introduced a new centralized page where all activities around vBExperience are collected, added a lot of Custom Data Provider Plugins like Helpful Answers/Post Ranking System and a lot more! Just read the changelog to see all bigger changes. Smaller changes and also iterations between beta version are not included in the changelog.

- New feature: Give Away Points. A new feature to share points with friends. You can choose freely of one of the point category and give away some or even all points.
- New feature: Activities, showing what is currently happening on your forum (Points, Promotions, Awards, Shop). Features also an Activities Module for vBAdvanced 3.x
- Awards: Identificator is dead. Long live the new direct URL field! Type any URI to an existing image and it will be taken for the award, f.e. /xperience/icons/newaward.png. You can use a small and a big image. 
- Awards: If no image is defined, a default image will be taken (/xperience/icons/default_16.png)
- Awards: Over 150 (new and updated) icons for awards and shop, each in sizes of 16x16 and 32x32. Default Awards have a complete new icon. You can still use the old one, search for icons named award_*
- Awards: Six awards are now pre-configured: Most Popular, Activity Award, Posting Award, Community Award, Frequent Poster, Blog Award, Calendar Award
- Awards: Possibility to clear all awards and recreate default awards
- Awards: Change display style for awards on profile: Either included in Experience fieldset or in an extra block below albums
- Awards: Introduced Award Categories for a better grouping if using more awards
- Awards: New Awardlisting. You can choose whether this or the old style legacy blockwise Awardlisting.
- Awards: Logging of all issued awards
- Awards: Manage Awards and Edit Awards have been re-designed and new structured, incl. a testdrive for Awards. See SQL String and resultset of calculation

- Change: There is a new directory called xperience. This is the new place for ALL graphics, including bars, shop items and awards.

- New Experience: Helpful Answers
- New Experience: vB Tournaments and Ladders
- New Experience: Post Ranking System
- New Experience: Average Posts since registration, also with award
- New Experience: Calendar Events, also with award
- CDP: New Plugin for Advanced Forum Points. You can independent set points for several forums

- Experience: Activity now calculates also activity on different sections (Visitormessages, Social Group message, Blog (if installed), Postings), not only postings
- Shop: Fixed problems with not logged in users are transaction log
- Shop: Fixed problems with usernames containing an underscore
- AdminCP: Recount has been moved to an own dedicated page: AdminCP, Experience, Recount
- AdminCP: New About Info with link to Support Thread

- Profile provides now Activites, removed GAP and Promotion log
- Experience: Recount trigger extended to login and album edit process, Now not only posting something will increase your points automatically.
- Experience Bars now also available in vBulletin Blog Sidebar, below User's Avatar
- Earn Points has now a new field called "Yours". It shows your actual points in this. You need to reimport all vBExperience addons from the 3.8.4 package to support this for the addon.

- Fixed HTML Validation errors
- Fixed several minor 

3.8.3, 09th April 2009
- New Feature: Social Group Ranking. Points from group members are summed and divided by member count. Option to include only groups with x (default: 5) members. Can be disabled.
- AdminCP, Custom Points, points will be calculated for affected user immediatly
- All addons have now uninstall code to remove own columns
- Breaking change: Support for PhotoPost vBGallery has been outsourced to an plugin. You will need to install this addon (ZIP, extras/addons) to get points of it.
- New addon: v3Arcade Score Submissions
- Fixed uninstall problems
- Fixed path of vBAdvance Modules
- Several smaller fixes

3.8.2, 27th February 2009
- New addon: Arm of Law. There are also icons for an award.
- Awards: Added award images for several addons
- Shop: Fixed problems with specials chars in username
- Rankings: Fixed not counting activity
- Promotions: Possibility to exclude admins and moderators (configurable for usergroups) from promotions
- Fixed missing phrase in maintenance/update counters
- Changed Phrase "vBExperience" to "Experience"
- Fixed several smaller problems

3.8.1, 15th January 2009
- French language updated - thanks to mitch84
- Turkish language updated - thanks to AdemGEN
- Shop: Fixed error on selling items with "," as delimiter
- AdminCP: Ability to define a User ID where the User recount should start at
- Optimization for large boards: Average Posts per day (forum) is beeing calculated once per night, optionally Admin can set a predefined value and disable the cron
- Optimization for large boards: Average Posts per day (user) is beeing calculated once per night
- Rankings: Displaying reputation points, setable
- AdminCP: Fixed hardcoded AdminCP Path

3.8.0 GOLD, 9th January 2009
- Now compatible with vBulletin 3.7.x and 3.8.x - support for vBulletin 3.6.x has been dropped
- New Experience: Socialgroup Discussions (Discussions, Posts)
- New Experience: Completing Profile (per editable profile fields, excluded are fields with a default value)
- New feature: Earn Points. It tells the user where and how he can get points. Title and description are pulled from phrases of the settings
- New feature: Shop: User can give away item (gift) to someone
- New feature: Shop: User can sell item back to shop and get 75% points back (amount setable)
- New feature: Shop: User can see own transactions
- Awards: Fixed handling of awards for ignored usergroups (thanks goes to Abe1)
- Awards: You can now define the max awards a user can get (thanks goes to Abe1)
- Awards: Award for activity is beeing set only to one user (more experience points wins), all other users are getting 99%.
- Awards: You can exclude usergroups from getting Awards. Administrators (Group ID 6) are excluded by default.
- Fixed margin of vBExperience tab in profile
- Rankings: Fixed XSS Vulnerability (thanks to snunhuck and Y4I)15)
- Experience: Handling of "Post Thank You" data now via CDP Addon. Support in Experience core has been dropped. You will need to import the addon from extras/addons.
- Shop: Fixed AdminCP Links visible to everyone
- Shop: Fixed AdminCP, Manage Shop, "Transactionlog (Page %1$s/%2$s) | There are %3$s Entries."
- Shop: Fixed missing BBUrl Prefix
- Shop: Give Away is sending PM to receiver (setable)
- Shop: Selling item is sending PM to defined list (setable)
- Shop: Writing a PM upon a purchase can now be deactivated
- Shop: Improved "give away" and display in postbit/profile
- Shop: Set if points from purchased products should be substracted
- Shop: Transactions in AdminCP are now paged
- Shop: Categories have now an icon and a description
- Shop: Description of Costfield in AdminCP with default value if translation is empty
- Fixed unchached templates
- CDP: New revision of CDP to support Earn Points
- CDP: All addons have been upgraded to support "Earn Points"
- Added row breaker for profile shop items
- Minor fixes and changes

3.7.17, 21th July 2008
- Shop: Fixed purchase for users with a userid higher than 32.000
- Shop: New setting Row break. Define after how many items a "<br/>" will be added
- Added three addons: Thread Necromancer, Scrupulous Poster, Deletion Addicted. All addons are stored in extras/addons and must be manually installed as a product
- Added graphics that can be used for Awards and Shop Items
- Added language: French

3.7.16, 15th July 2008
- Shop: Fixed subtraction of xperience
- Shop: Fixed SQL Error for ignored users/groups
- Shop: Possibility to use user, thread, post and misc points as costfield
- Awards: Fixed "fing"-Award
- Experience: Fixed sum of albumpictures
- Quantity = 0 shows now an empty rack
- Added language: Arabic
- Added template hooks for thread, post and user

3.7.15, 03rd July 2008
- Awards, Statistics: Second sorting parameter are now the experience points
- Awards, Shop: You can now use the sum of all experience points as a point provider for awards and shop
- Awards: Removed space if Awards in Username is enabled and User has no Award assigned. Fixed also additional "</a>"
- CDP: Added multiplicator setting, dependency check and cache templates
- Experience: Now counting all albums
- Experience: Attachments are now obeying exclude forums setting
- Experience: Disabled users are removed from xperience database
- New feature: Statistics
- Shop: Additional icons
- Shop: You can now select the position in postbit (same as for bars)
- Shop: Fixed items in postbit if too many items defined
- Fixed: Level up bar showing wrong values (need to recount!)
- New feature: List of last 50 promotions. Only promotions since installation of 3.7.15 are logged
- Promotions: List of last promotions in profile
- Promotions: Admingroup (ID 6) is not beeing touched anymore. Such a user is beeing ignored on promotions
- Bars: New setting to disable bars in profile
- Some cosmetic changes
- Smaller fixes/changes

3.7.14, 17th June 2008
- Added "Custom Data Provider" - you can now define your own data providers and extend vBExperience to calculate data that you choose. You will need some experience in creating mods to work with the hooks.
- Added Shop: Users can buy virtual items that you can define via AdminCP. You can decide which points should be substracted by a purchase. Supports categories.
- Added: Navigaton bar
- Added new xperience: "thanks - vS-Hide Hack Resurrection (Expanded Edition)". This one is controlled by the already existing "thanks" setting.
- Awards: Manual assign of awards to multiple users possible via seperating ID's with a comma
- Awards: Removed underlining on Username
- Awards: Fields for calculation are now translated and sorted
- Experience: Now working with "Memberlist per page" (formerly static 50 users per page)
- Experience: Added possibility to search members by name
- Experience: Added new setting: Count only active users. Only users who were active in the last X days are beeing calculated. Speeds up performance on large boards.
- Experience: Added new behaviour: Stats of ignored users/usergroups are deleted
- Experience: Fixed double stats for particular users
- Added: Before installation, check if class_xperience.php is uploaded
- Smaller fixes/changes

3.7.13, Internal release

3.7.12, 11th April 2008
- Added new xperience: "Who Downloaded This Attachment?". A new setting has been introduced to control it.
- Experience: Use of reputation system is now multiplied with setting
- Awards: Fixed a bug with custom avatar's revision (url cutted after "_")
- Awards: Fixed a bug with apostrophes in name/title/description
- Awards: Limit corrected to 0 on existing Awards (only if they are four Awards)
- Experience: Design change, now displaying all xperience with a value <> 0. This makes identify incorrect sum's from disabled xperience's.
- Smaller fixes/changes

3.7.11, 9th April 2008
- Added new xperience: vBulletin Blog. A new setting has been introduced to control it. Additional, this xperience is taking settings for views, votes and comments from thread settings.
- Added new xperience: Usage of reputation. A new setting has been introduced to control it.
- Added new xperience: Usage of thanks. A new setting has been introduced to control it.
- Bars: No limitation in levels anymore. You can now freely define levels, e.g. 70 levels for WoW, or 500 levels. If you have modified your max level, you will have to change setting "Max Level".
- Bars: Bars of ignored Users are not shown anymore
- Bars: Redone code for bars. No more overlapping images on 100% activity. Please keep in mind: On very dark layouts the borders of the bars is not always visible. Check "extras/gfx bars for dark backgrounds"
- Bars: Added a new gfx for right end of bars
- Bars: Possibility to disable them via settings (independent of bar text)
- Awards: Fixed displaying pre-defined Avatars
- Awards: Avatars are resized to 80px height
- Awards: Only three Awards are shown in one row
- Awards: Added new gfx, see "extras/gfx awards alternate"
- Awards: Support for custom Awards like GOLD, SILVER, etc.. Awards with new Limit function. Not defined by default.
- Awards: Added possibility to assign Awards manually
- Awards/Bars: Added option for PNG instead GIF (Awards and Bars)
- Experience: Custom Points are now fully supported via AdminCP. They appear on profile on the "Misc" group.
- Experience: Fully support for ignore Usergroups
- Experience: Ignored Forums are not counted in activity count anymore
- Fully translated AdminCP
- Fixed uncached xperience_musername
- Smaller fixes/changes

3.7.10, 12th March 2008
- Added: Reworked Awards. Awards are now completely manageable by AdminCP. You can now disable, add new, delete and customize them.
- Removed Silver and Bronze awards as they undermined effect of the whole awardsystem
- Added: Option to select position in postbit
- Added: Link to Rankings in Popup
- Fixed: Compatibility with vBulletin 3.7 Beta 6
- Fixed: Compatibility with vBAdvanced CMPS Integration
- Fixed: Uncached templates in postbit
- Level products have now version number according to it's level
- Smaller fixes/changes

3.7.9, 7th March 2008
- Added overview of Awards: All Users with Awards on one place
- Added new xperience: Friends. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Added Award: Helpful. This Award is using "Post Thanks", if available.
- Added three new level products: Very large, Ultra and Crazy
- Added two new postbit modes: As Popup, as Popup with full information
- Added Points and Level to Memberslist, configurable: None, Points, Level, Points and Level
- Username can now be attached or prefixed with awards. Valid only in postbit, profile, memberslist
- Level up in postbit can now be set as hidden to make the bars smaller
- "Ignore Usergroups" is now implemented
- Deleted users didn't appear now as ghost's in Ranking
- Recount is now also generating Awards
- Fixed a bug not calculating correct Post Thanks
- Smaller fixes/changes


3.7.8, 4th March 2008
- This is the first release for vBulletin 3.6.8 and 3.7
- Added navigation to AdminCP (below users)
- Added level statistics to AdminCP
- Added permission check for Rankings, using existing "canviewmembers" from memberlist
- Added Awards: Activity, Community, Posting. The best
- Added german and turkish translations
- Level up is now displayed not only as %, also the needed points are shown
- Smaller fixes

3.7.7, 1st March 2008
- Fixed not counting points for some xperience providers due to missing check for table prefix
- Fixed a bug where points for "Post Thanks" were not displayed in profile

3.7.6, 29th Feb 2008:
- Added new xperience: Cyb - PayPal Donate. Untested. A new setting has been introduced to control it (thanks to Paradigm)
- Added new xperience: Referrals. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Postbit: Bars can now also have a text above them
- Postbit: Width of the bars in postbit
- Smaller fixes/changes


3.7.5, 26th Feb 2008: 
- Introducing a new calculation for the activity. It takes now the average of the 10 most active users instead of the top poster. It's now much more attractive as a single poster cannot unweight the activity of the whole forum.
- Added new xperience: DownloadsII. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Added new xperience: PhotoPost Gallery. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Added new xperience: Albumpictures. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Memberprofile/Postbit: Fixed wrong display of points (postbit/memberprofile)
- Memberprofile: Groups with 0 points are not shown
- Memberprofile: All point providers can be hide by setting them to 0 (previously only calculation was disabled)
- Smaller fixes/changes

3.7.4, 25th Feb 2008: 
- New vBExperience Rankings. Showing User, Level, Activity Points (experience, thread, post, user, misc) - sortable.
- Link to Rankings can be shown in navbar and quicklinks.
- Disabling vBExperience does hides block in memberinfo
- Bars are now aligned to left by default
- Added new xperience: Links and Downloads Manager. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- All point providers can be disabled by set them to 0
- Added two vBAdvanced3 modules: Most active and most experienced Users
- Smaller fixes
- By upgrading from 3.7.3 delete file \includes\cron\xperience.php on server

3.7.3, 22th Feb 2008: 
- Post Thanks and Reputation are only shown if they are enabled
- Smaller fixes

3.7.2, 21th Feb 2008: 
- Added new xperience: Social Groups. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Added new xperience: Visitor messages. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Added new xperience: Attachement views. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Added new xperience: Thread tags. A new setting has been introduced to control it
- Removed "Use thanks" and "Use infractions" - they can now be disabled by setting their value to 0
- Cron adjusted from 15 to 10 minutes

3.7.1, 20th Feb 2008:
- Fixed errors with missing prefix and case sensitivity in SQL queries
- Stats are now with correct user sum
- Handling correct user ignore

3.7.0, 19th Feb 2008:
- First public release