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Hi all,

Just to let you know that I'll be patching the forum to phpBB 3.0.3 this evening at 21:00. The forum will be unavailable during this time; downtime is expected to be no more than an hour (although this is an estimate, I've never patched a forum of this size before so I'm not too sure how long it will take).

Thanks.
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*gasp* No ... not at that time of night. Can't you do it tomorrow morning at 10 am instead?
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Thanks Ron. What are the changes phpBB 3.0.3 will bring?
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Monty wrote:Thanks Ron. What are the changes phpBB 3.0.3 will bring?
Release announcement :wink:
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And... we're patched and back up. Please PM me if you encounter any issues.
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Thanks Ron :)
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OK guys, we're doing this again; phpBB 3.0.4 is out.

Will be doing it Monday evening at 22:00. As before, expect downtime of around an hour or so.
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Ron2K wrote:OK guys, we're doing this again; phpBB 3.0.4 is out.

Will be doing it Monday evening at 22:00. As before, expect downtime of around an hour or so.
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Do we actually have a need for a patch. Except for Jee's problem with the admin side of things?
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^^ Considering that two of the fixes are security related, yes we do.
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come on guys. a little down time didn't hurt anybody. its not like the pcf site is going away forever. *touches the wooden table*
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DeathStrike wrote:come on guys. a little down time didn't hurt anybody. its not like the pcf site is going away forever. *touches the wooden table*
DeathStrike, I have no problem with an update if it is needed. If it has security fixes then yes I fully agree that it is needed. As a rule you stay one patch or version behind the developers as the latest release always has issues. Any patch for security is however a diffirent story. I don't think that there is a lot that can be broken by the patch in any case.

Ron2K, will you please update us with a release note :?:
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RuadRauFlessa wrote:Ron2K, will you please update us with a release note :?:
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Ron2K wrote:
RuadRauFlessa wrote:Ron2K, will you please update us with a release note :?:
Clicky Clicky :wink:
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Some nice performance updates as well. Me likes.
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And we're back again - please drop me a PM if I broke something. :mrgreen:
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As always Ron, good work my man!!
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I've just received word that our web hosts need to bounce the server to reset something - the site will be unavailable for around 5 minutes or so.
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5 whole minutes? *sigh* guess i have to do work at some point in time today.
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so i assume the 5 mins are over??
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your assumptions would be correct.
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I've received a message from the web hosts stating that the server may go down for 5-10 mins later today for security maintenance - no idea as to exactly when this may happen though.
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Hope not while I am here :(
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