What's New in SMF 2.1 - Posting

[Akyhne]

If the world was made of notepad simple docs, without tags, you could!

You just have to imagine it

[emanuele]

* emanuele is still in the 80s! (green text on black screen)

[Akyhne]

Really? You see colors? I'm still doing with the punched cards!

[Antechinus]

Command line is almost as bad.

[Arantor]

Some of us can do an awful lot with a command line. In some ways it's *way* more efficient than a GUI

I can also get into way more trouble with a command line than I can a GUI heh

[Antechinus]

* Antechinus hates command line.

[Akyhne]

Most of my dos capabilities sneaked out of my brain years ago. But it was fun back then, tweaking config.sys etc.

[jackk]

[...] SMF 2.1 is forced to reject a file for an attachment (unsupported file format, file to large, file seems to be infected), [..] improved our file checks so SMF can protect your members from infection while rejecting far fewer files. [..]

Interesting how exactly can it check a file for virus infections?

[Arantor]

SMF 2.0 already does it to a certain degree.

It's a little bit disingenuous to call it 'virus infection' because it isn't.

It primarily checks for things like images containing scripts when they shouldn't, which is a known injection method for getting malware onto a computer.

[jackk]

SMF 2.0 already does it to a certain degree.

It's a little bit disingenuous to call it 'virus infection' because it isn't.

It primarily checks for things like images containing scripts when they shouldn't, which is a known injection method for getting malware onto a computer.

I haven't noticed that feature actually, good to know that it exist.

[butchs]

It primarily checks for things like images containing scripts when they shouldn't, which is a known injection method for getting malware onto a computer.

Interesting.  Was this after RC4?  Where is the code located?

Forum Firewall for 2.0X also checks for the same type of thing, possibly a little more, as it scans your system once a week.

[Arantor]

This was added in RC4. Though apparently the post here suggests it was changed again in 2.1.

[jackk]

It would be great if someone would've conducted security tests against built-in SMF security features and 3rd party protection like forum firewall to see how useful they actually are, like we're doing on other non-PHP security products. Twice as great with comparison to other concurrent bulletin boards . The same about Cloudflare security mechanisms, they're flaunting and advertising their protection, but how much does  all of it actually works in real world, we don't know. I know that dedicated application firewalls (like from Barracuda) have protected a lot of servers, at least, against SQL attacks, but hard to say how much useful are above mentioned products.

[MeloBart95]

I just created a Free Discussion Board with 2.0.6 version, and I'm now waiting to up-to-date it to 2.1 ASAP!
I am so curious to see what news will really be in the new version you're coding these days...     

[Lexi P]

I just created a Free Discussion Board with 2.0.6 version, and I'm now waiting to up-to-date it to 2.1 ASAP!
I am so curious to see what news will really be in the new version you're coding these days...     

From what i understand, 2.1 wont be released for some time 

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=516764.0

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=515977.0

[Arantor]

Never mind the fact that you can - if you want to - grab it right now from Github, with the understanding that things are broken, unfinished and not going to receive support...