Site Upgrade

[duncan]

Some of you may have noticed a slight blip in the site this morning.

This was while I carried out the latest security update from the writers of the forum software.

The upgrade went through smooth enough with no errors but if you spot anything iffy please let me know.

Thanks

[rolty]

Cool - did wonder why I was having trouble avoiding my revison :lol:

[duncan]

It is remarkably simple to do an upgrade if you do each one when they are released.

We are now running phpBB 2.0.22

I am investigating phpBB 3 and will see whether it is worth making the move over when that passes beta testing

[rolty]

What changes with the upgrades - do you get more admin features, security and stability updates?

Is phpBB 3 much of an improvement on what we have now?

Sorry to sound a bit naive, but haven't really got a clue as to how the forum itself works!

[duncan]

l.i. Changes since 2.0.21

* [Fix] Check for user's existence prior to showing email form
* [Fix] New members of moderator groups should always become moderators (Bug #382)
* [Fix] Proper message when replying to non-existant topics (Bug #459)
* [Fix] Changed column type of search_array to store more ids (Bug #4058)
* [Fix] Fixed annoyance with font-size selector (Bug #4612)
* [Fix] Fix optimize line in database updater (Bug #6186)
* [Sec] Check for the avatar upload directory reinforced
* [Sec] Changes to the criteria for "bad" redirection targets - kellanved
* [Sec] Fixed a non-persistent XSS issue in private messaging
* [Sec] Fixing possible negative start parameter - SpiderZ.
* [Sec] Added session checks to various forms - kellanved

Version 3 has some new features a la other bulletin boards but it may mean that existing modifications that I have put in are disabled.... will investigate and maybe setup a sample site to explore.


update: I have noticed that it says:

Invalid Session. Please resubmit the form.

when posting - I am looking into this and will fix asap. In the meantime if you just click submit again it will go through.

[duncan]

i have had to log everyone out I am afraid too try and fix this.

edit ... dang still not worked

[duncan]

think this is fixed now

it was only a problem with the quick reply form on the topics with a session id not getting put in.... all done now

[Big_Ego]