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Adobe flash player EOL

Started by noquiexis, December 17, 2020, 02:28:00 PM

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noquiexis

     Other than legacy posts that use the [flash]http://some text here[/flash] tags, will the Adobe flash player End Of Life affect some SMF 2.0.x versions? A website that I visit uses SMF 2.0 RC5 (not recommended). <-- I argued 'til I was blue in the face that they upgrade.

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SMF does not use flash in any way.


that site, however is just asking to be hacked and/or crash when the host upgrades php. They are 17 versions behind.
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Quote from: noquiexis on December 17, 2020, 02:28:00 PM
A website that I visit uses SMF 2.0 RC5 (not recommended). <-- I argued 'til I was blue in the face that they upgrade.
You did good. No reason to stick on a release candidate after 2.0 has already been patched many times after it's actual release.
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     Many thanks! I did post a link on that forum back to this conversation. *Maybe* the website owner will think about the upgrade. Maybe ...

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 Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears."

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