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phpBB Weekly #094: Anything Goes with the Spokane Clan

On this non-live “Anything Goes” episode, Douglas is joined by the “Spokane Clan”–David Lewis, Francis Lewis (Handyman), and Michael Williams (mtotheikle). They’re all from Spokane, all bigwigs on StarTrekGuide, and are all celebrating the retirement of phpBB2 while Douglas continues mourning it. [...]

PHPBB And WordPress

In this episode, David and I chatted about a number of subjects including:

• WordPress User Interface History
• BBPress
• PHPBB3
• The possibilities of the WordPress team working with PHPBB to develope a bridge between the two (!!!??!!)
• Security of PHPBB3 and WordPress

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(please note … it’s written phpBB, not in that shouting way)

Tocqueville. Comunicazione di servizio

Il restyling (non solo estetico, ma strutturale) del sito è stato molto più lungo del previsto. E non riusciremo ad essere pronti prima di lunedì 2 febbraio. Adattare al nuovo “sistema” un database enorme come quello di Tocqueville.it (più di 1800 blog iscritti e più di 300mila post aggregati) non è affatto un’operazione semplice. Ma vi possiamo assicurare che, una volta completato il tutto, sarà valsa la pena aspettare qualche giorno in più.

Hi,

since spam has an implicit cost in DB space, I’ve added a further protection layer. It’s a captcha and it shows before comment form. So the spam able to bypass it will be caught by other system and then if even that fails it will be kicked out in another way. And if some legit comment is classified as spam, well … it will be easier recovering it.

We’re sorry for the little additional annoyance, but we are confident that no huge troubles will be generated by it .

This blog was updated yesterday to latest wordpress 2.6.5 .
The old code was vulnerable to an XSS vulnerability (unsanitized $_SERVER[] variable) and three bugs.

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A flawlessy upgrade to the latest release after this announcement.
It’s a security upgrade due to a critical vulnerability in snoopy, so upgrading is recommended or …

For details about snoopy vuln you may check your favourite security site as usual

Hi, the blog has been upgraded from 2.6.0 to 2.6.2.
Release 2.6.2 was unleashed two days ago to fix two security flaws as detailed here.

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Dear Users,
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Yep, continue upgrades is the destiny WP users chose if they abandoned the legacy 2.0.x line.

The site went offline for some minutes to upgrade from 2.5.1 to 2.6

Nothing special, except a little mess with config file (fixed after a quick search).

This ’cause if you don’t want to see your database size duplicated due to the dreadful history hassle (AKA feature) (more…)

Well, this might help you.

Have fun

link to blog
announcement text
dupe post here

Have fun

As already noted here, I’ve at last updated this blog to the latest 2.5.1 .

2.0.11 worked well, but (more…)