Forum upgrade

[Adi007]

All error messages see by users since approximately 13:25 have been as a result of a work carried out to patch a serious security vulnerability in the forum discovered by the makers. This work has now been carried out and hopefully everything that worked before will now be working again. Sorry for any inconvenience caused by this but I'm sure that you appreciate why I didn't want to publicize a security upgrade before it was carried out!

However, it doesn't end there - over the weekend I intend to carry out a full forum upgrade to the latest 3.0.5 version of the forum that will fix many other issues - the fixes and changes in this new version are enough to warrant the upgrade. This however will mean that the forum will be unavailable for a time and that it may be necessary to disable certain modifications pending their reintegration into the forum.

In order to do this I will take the forum offline at some point during the weekend.

 

[tomtom]

Adi.. will this be upgrades to the blogs and gallery too.. or just the forum software?

 

[Adi007]

Upgrades will only affect the core forum software - there may be a delay in getting the blogs and gallery reintegrated though. Same goes for the arcade. Other minor tweaks will be reintegrated as time goes on.

 

[JakeR]

Cool, thanks for all the works Adi and Admin!

 

[RAPPLEBY2000]

so we will be without BCUK for a while? could you give us a rough estimate as to when, and how long, chears. :biggthump

 

[Adi007]

so we will be without BCUK for a while? could you give us a rough estimate as to when, and how long, chears. :biggthump

Hopefully, no more than a few hours, but I might do it later in the evening.

 

[Kath]

The forum willl be going down shortly. (Can't say exactly how long for, but I would expect it will be at least midnight before it's up again. )

 

[Kath]

The upgrade has now been completed. :-D

 

[tomtom]

anything new we should check out?

 

[Adi007]

Nothing really from the user side - a few bug fixes, code tightening up, typos fixed. This has given us the opportunity to clean up the code for a lot of the modifications done here though - hopefully things will be faster, more robust and more secure.

 

[shinobi]

Cheers for that Techie folks. It's much appreciated :biggthump

cheers

Martin

 

[Kath]

Thanks Martin! :biggthump

I should add that if anyone is experiencing any problems since the upgrade to please let us know.

 

[Abbe Osram]

thanks for the good and hard work!!!!! :You_Rock_
cheers
Abbe

 

[Kath]

The gallery is being upgraded at 12-30 today. Some functions may be unavailable following this.

 

[Kath]

Gallery upgrade complete. If anyone is experiencing any problems since the upgrade to please let us know. :biggthump