Key features and improvements that will be included in the first vBulletin 4 release are:

• Cross-content search system providing a single interface to search across forum posts, blog entries and comments and other supported products
  
• Improved search performance
  
• A fresh design and layout making use of semantic markup and CSS styling
  
• An enhanced style and template system to enhance your ability to change the layout
  
• Controls to assist with the placement of advertising elements
  
• SEO features, including friendly URLs
  
• A centralized attachment system, allowing the sharing of attachments across products
  
• The goal of the vBulletin 4 series is to develop a modern, scalable application platform that will allow your communities to thrive.
  
• The vBulletin 4 series will include a number of releases, with each iteration bringing improvements in features, usability and architecture.
  

Development efforts are prioritized towards those areas that can provide real, tangible benefits to our customers, at all times with an eye toward maintaining and enhancing the performance and reliability expected of a vBulletin product.

Alongside significant strides forward within the vBulletin forum product, we are also producing a new content management system to facilitate the creation, editing and publishing of non-forum pages. Further details about CMS features, and how it will integrate with vBulletin will be posted in due course.