SMF 1.1.13, SMF 2.0 RC4 Security Patch, and SMF 2.0 Release Candidate 5

[Snowy]

Thank you soooooo much for the patch. Upgrades are tedious for me, so these easy to install security patches are extremely beneficial.

[Robert.]

Just updated my test forum to RC5. Nice work, team.

[Masterd]

I updated my forum! It's working great!

[klumy]

what's new in RC5?

[Kindred]

read the changelog.

[comedorsamus]

for admins who wish to secure their RC4 forum but may not want to do a complete upgrade

YEEEEESSS! Thanks for that!

And since I'm here, let me ask something. I'm currently using RC4 with a language package, but I have modified some of them (a few lines and .php files still in english), would an upgrade overwrite those files or maybe create some kind of incompatibility?

Thanks!

[NanoSector]

for admins who wish to secure their RC4 forum but may not want to do a complete upgrade

YEEEEESSS! Thanks for that!

And since I'm here, let me ask something. I'm currently using RC4 with a language package, but I have modified some of them (a few lines and .php files still in english), would an upgrade overwrite those files or maybe create some kind of incompatibility?

Thanks!

As long as they aren't the default english files you are fine

But the RC4 security patch will not change the language files as far as I am aware.

[Joshua Dickerson]

what's new in RC5?

read the changelog.

The first post in this topic explains.

Main points of this 2.0 release include:
Several security-related fixes.
Mail management fixed.
Issues with international forums characters.
Unread replies and topics core functionalities issues were fixed.
A few administration features issues were fixed.
New integration hooks features introduced in RC4 were fixed.
Many other fixes and improvements.

[D3N1553]

Im not so happy about it,  I'm feeling I've been waiting too long for final release :/ XD I stopped the activity in my forum since the beginning of 2009 because I thought 2.0 would mean a significant change and It would be a matter of weeks to become final, so I thought "Well, It would ok to wait a little so my efforts editing the website wouldnt be insignificant since 2.0 will be such a change"...  but a year passed and then I thought devs would give us a nice christmas gift on december 2010...well, at least a new year's surprise. But no Its February 2011 and all I get is a RC5 XD ... Im not angry or anything, but 5 years seem too long for any kind of project, free, open source or whatever @.@

Now 2.0 seems old for me.  I know that many people will dislike my comment, but we have HTML5, CSS3 and other technologies that are becoming more important in web development...  and I dont imagine myself waiting 10 years more for 3.0 and start using some of them.

Sorry if Im being disrespectful or too ignorant

[Joshua Dickerson]

D3N1553, everyone, including the team, feels the same way.

[BÉLVI®]

Since I upgraded my forum to 2.0RC5 and I come to inform everyone that the only bug was found that Wysiwyg button to view does not change the code using.

for now it's just that

thanks

[Norv]

Now 2.0 seems old for me.  I know that many people will dislike my comment, but we have HTML5, CSS3 and other technologies that are becoming more important in web development...  and I dont imagine myself waiting 10 years more for 3.0 and start using some of them.

Sorry if Im being disrespectful or too ignorant

I completely agree, D3N1553. We do not intend to have such slow pace of releases as we did the last years, and we are working on it.

Since I upgraded my forum to 2.0RC5 and I come to inform everyone that the only bug was found that Wysiwyg button to view does not change the code using.

for now it's just that

thanks

Can you please explain what do you mean exactly? Eventually, can you post a bug report in the Bug Reports board with as many details as possible about your forum?

[[SiNaN]]

Really, we want to release this thing more than anyone else does in this world.

[CaptainKirk]

Really, we want to release this thing more than anyone else does in this world.

Which "world" would that be? 

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Really, we want to release this thing more than anyone else does in this world.

Which "world" would that be? 

The world where we love to hear complaints like this, and that is why we hold off the release.

[CaptainKirk]

Really, we want to release this thing more than anyone else does in this world.

Which "world" would that be? 

The world where we love to hear complaints like this, and that is why we hold off the release.

Figures.

[twig/al]

Great job SMF... I don't mind the wait... Just get it right when it finally is released...

[Aleksi "Lex" Kilpinen]

Really, we want to release this thing more than anyone else does in this world.

Which "world" would that be? 

The world where we love to hear complaints like this, and that is why we hold off the release.

Figures.

Seriously though, you do understand we'd very much want to release already - partially just because we don't like to be pushed continuesly, and we don't like to see people complaining about this, and we would love to give straight answers to avoid it - but we can't, and we too think it's been too long already, and would like to move on with the project as well. It shouldn't be that hard to see, that we really really want to have a final released soon.

[KensonPlays]

I thought you weren't going to release a RC5?! I thought GOLD was going to come before then 

[Kindred]

This version is a security release

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At this time, legal matters related to the upcoming license changes have prevented us from making a final release of SMF 2.0.

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