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WordPress filesystem abstraction – and automatic updates June 11, 2009

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Way back in the not-so-distant past the only way to update WordPress was to download (wget/ftp) updates, plugins and themes, unpack them and perform the update/install.

It is possible to pull the latest builds from subversion – but that’s really focused on the core hacker.

New in WP 2.7 was the ability to update automatically.

There were a few challenges with this – permissions, PHP modules, various host implementations – but I found it generally quite successful.

I found a great FAQ here – http://dd32.id.au/2009/02/20/wordpress-filesystem-abstraction-faq/

From the same author is a very cool plugin – core-control – it lets you enable and disable various transports – and shows the status of them.

Change control: SLES 10 updates August 22, 2008

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Planned upgrades this weekend

SLES 10 SP1 –> SP2 for both x86 and x64

 

How-to: http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=7000387

Local update: http://www.novell.com/support/documentLink.do?externalID=3065146

Release notes: http://www.novell.com/documentation/sles10/release-notes_sp2/release-notes_sp2.html

WordPress 2.3.2 December 29, 2007

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Now live:

http://wordpress.org/development/2007/12/wordpress-232/

Download from:

http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.zip
http://wordpress.org/wordpress-2.3.2.tar.gz

Works well so far.

Blog backend updates September 26, 2007

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I’ve just updated most of the hosted blogs to WordPress 2.3 – so far so good.

I need to update the integrated photo stuff to Gallery 2.2 as well – that’s going to be a lot more involved and needs some good planning and change control.

WordPress updates September 16, 2007

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Away from home and the WordPress updates come in..

2.2.3 is a security update; also 2.3 Release Candidate 1 should be out tomorrow.

I also bumped the version of subscribe2 on the family blog – that fixed a lot of problems :)

WordPress 2.3 beta 1 August 28, 2007

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The paint is still wet – but it looks like it works :)

Some plugins (feedwordpress) look like they are broken.

I’m looking forward to this release – improvements to the javascript, better url redirection and at last built in tags!

The tags look like they are using a similar idea to the Drupal taxonomy concepts – should be interesting.

Copfilter 0.84 beta 1 April 5, 2007

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Copfilter

My IMAP patch got included in the latest update to Copfilter.

 

  • fix: fixes from various copfilter forum users (see the bugs section in the forum or
    CHANGELOG for the details), most important ones are mentioned below
  • fix: fix in cron.daily (it could hang) – thx DaPinky
  • fix: IMAP Buffer increase (it could hang) – thx evilzenscientist
  • fix: deleting a huge amount of mails from the spam quarantine is now possible – thx mdages
  • fix: proxsmtp/tmp could get filled up without removal of old files – thx Alevizos Dimitrios
  • new: ability to sort spam quarantine by columns (ex. by score level) – thx taurus

Nice to see my stuff make it :) Officially “I don’t write code”

Housekeeping March 25, 2007

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Back from BrainShare and the usual round of patching the internal boxes.

The firewall/spam server got a good round of updates. IPcop had two major updates. Also the CLAM anti-virus for the mail sweeper got updated to 0.90.1

There are also a stack of SLES 10 and Windows 2003 updates to test and install. Sigh. Windows 2003 SP2 is now live; I need to check it doesn’t make anything barf. SLES 10 just has the normal slew of packages.

WordPress 2.1 January 22, 2007

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“Ella” is here.

A long beta program – and it looks sweet.

Download from here.

The WordPress merry-go-round January 15, 2007

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WordPress 2.0.7 – security fixes.

Kinda instantly obsoleted WordPress 2.0.6 – which in itself was bug and security fixes.

WordPress 2.1 still moves forward; beta 2 via svn is looking pretty sweet.