vBulletin Solutions has released a new version of their forum software vBulletin.

vBulletin 4.2 is now available as a free download for all the paid subscribers.

They have finally added some new features to the vBulletin product in a long time.

vBulletin 4.1.x has been largely about bug fixes and we saw around 12 updates in that series.

New features:

Activity Stream
Navigation Manager
Members who have Visited Today
Cron-based Batch Email Sending
UserCP Reputation Display
Reputation Notification
User Profile Reputation Display
Who has Read a Thread
Doublepost Prevention
Enhanced Reputation Checks
Updated Readme
Integration with Post Release