[admin]

I plan to make a large batch of security upgrade patches to the forum software late this afternoon. It will be necessary to take the forum off-line while that is being done.

Most upgrades can be accomplished within 30-minutes or so, but these changes require manually copying and pasting more than 350 blocks of new code into 135 existing code files, so there will be plenty of potential for mistakes. It also is possible that one of more of those changes will conflict with custom extensions I wrote two and a half years ago to add features. Hopefully the forum will be back up quickly, but if not, you can know I will be working on it.

-Bob

[admin]

I found an incompatibility during the upgrade that will take some time to overcome, so I temporarily put the old back software online. You are welcome to continue using it whenever it is running, but I probably will take it down for a while again tomorrow (Friday) to continue with the changes.

-Bob

[admin]

The most important security software upgrade patches were installed this afternoon. However, there are still more to install and the forum will be occasionally unavailable again during brief intervals while they are being installed.

When members register they can elect to have forum text displayed in any of the languages listed below. So far I have upgraded only U.S. English, British English and Standard French support. You may see some temporary malfunctions until the other languages have been upgraded if you selected any other language when you registered.

The number at the end of each line below is the number of forum members who selected each language when they registered. The letters just before those counts are ISO language designators.

Supported Languages

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Arabic العربية ar 2
Armenian Հայերեն hy 0
Belarusian Беларуская be 0
Bosnian Bosanski bs 0
Breton Brezhoneg br 0
British English British English en 264
Bulgarian Български bg 0
Catalan Català ca 0
Catalan (Valencian) Català (País Valencià) ca_pv 0
Croatian Hrvatski hr 1
Czech Čeština cs 0
Danish Dansk da 0
Dutch (Casual Honorifics)‎ Nederlands (Informeel) nl 4
English (United States) English (United States) en_us 62
Faroese Føroyskt fo 0
Finnish Suomi fi 0
French (Technical)‎ Français fr_x_strict 6
Galician Galego gl 0
German (Casual Honorifics)‎ Deutsch (Du)‎ de 2
German (Formal Honorifics)‎ Deutsch (Sie)‎ de_x_sie 0
Greek Ελληνικά el 1
Hebrew עברית he 2
Hungarian Magyar hu 0
Italian Italiano it 0
Japanese 日本語 ja 1
Latvian Latviešu lv 0
Lithuanian Lietuvių lt 0
Mandarin Chinese (Simplified script)‎ 简体中文 zh_cmn_hans 0
Mandarin Chinese (Traditional script)‎ 正體中文 zh_cmn_hant 0
Mongolian Монгол mn 0
Norwegian Bokmål Norsk Bokmål nb 0
Occitan Occitan oc 0
Polish Polski pl 0
Portuguese Português pt 0
Portuguese (Brazil)‎ Português (Brasil) pt_br 2
Romanian Română ro 0
Russian Русский ru 0
Serbian (Latin script) Serbian (Latin script) sr 0
Sindhi سنڌي sd 0
Spanish Español es 10
Spanish (Argentina) Español (Argentina) es_ar 0
Swedish Svenska sv 0
Turkish Türkçe tr 0
Ukrainian Українська uk 0
Standard French Français Standard fr 0

-Bob

[admin]

All language and other upgrades have been completed. Let me know if you notice any abnormalities.

-Bob