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Server moving

Posted June 20, 2007 by Tatu Wikman

As you might have noticed dev.cmsmadesimple.org hasnt responded for a while. We have small problems with the server and are now moving it to a new server. While the move is in progress forge and svn will be down, we'll let you know the moment we get the server back up. Hopefully this wont take too long. UPDATE: Everything is basically up. Translation center hasn't moved yet and neither has email. A few smaller things related to cron jobs haven't either, but for the most part everything for devs and end user should be functional. Thanks for your patience!

So many releases?

Posted June 18, 2007 by Ted Kulp

Just wanted to make a quick comment about the number of releases in the last couple of weeks. We've basically had 2 major security releases in a matter of a week, and I'm sure that raises a red flag with some of the more established users. I just want to emphasize something... this is a good thing. Sure it takes you several minutes to update your sites to the latest version and there isn't an automated way of doing that yet. But as we gain users and gain popularity (very, very quickly I might add), more and more people are banging on the system and deconstructing it... finding these great obscure bugs that some hacker might've found first. And I make sure that we as a group jump on them as soon as I can. Instead of just sitting on them and waiting for a bunch to come in and bundle them up like Microsoft does, the group does all they can to get a new release out and get the word out quickly. This has become a philosphy for us and luckily all of the devs support it. Annoying? Sure. Responsible? Definitely. We're trying out best to make a great, safe product with the little team that could. And sometimes this is the best we can do. Thanks for you patience! Someday this gig will be fulltime for us and we can put a lot more time into making this the great app it should be.

CMS Made Simple 1.0.8 Released!

Posted June 18, 2007 by Samuel Goldstein

Sorry to have to report this, but a new security issue was brought to our attention today. Ted had it fixed in just a few minutes, and released version 1.0.8. This vulnerability could result in unauthorized access to your CMS, so we strongly recommend that you update any CMS Made Simple installations you have on the open internet. Thanks to [dren] and Rift for bringing the problem to our attention.

CMS Made Simple 1.0.7 Released!

Posted June 11, 2007 by Robert Campbell

Due to a few potential security problems that were brought to our attention, we decided to release 1.0.7 even before 1.1 was ready for prime time. We suggest you update to this version AS SOON AS POSSIBLE (again you say!, yeah we know, but it's better to fix these problems and get the fixes out soon rather than sit on them.) Here's the changelog:
Version 1.0.7 "Kahoolawe" -- Jun 11 2007 ----------------- - Fixes potential security issue with processing of smarty templates - Added a few missing permission checks to core modules

Dev Meeting Wrapup

Posted June 7, 2007 by Ted Kulp

Yesterday we held a developer conference in IRC. I'll post a transcription of it as soon as I can get it together, but here is the rundown... 1.1 We are going to do an rc3 version. This is mainly because of some translation issues (mostly in French for some reason) and also because TinyMCE wasn't in the rc2 build (my fault). The idea is to release rc3 today, and then have 1.1 out in the middle of next week. We just need some quick user testing to make sure everything is correct now. Dev Team Additions ThomasM and Reneh (both of their IRC nicks) have been added to the dev team. Both have been a great help to the cause, especially on IRC. We will update the About Us page soon. We also realized that DeeEye isn't on the About Us page either, so we need to correct that. 2.0 The dev team is committed to finishing up 1.1 and moving that into maintenance status. At that point, the trunk will be changed over to the 2.0 code and the others along with myself will start working on it. While not said in the meeting, I'm still hoping for a beta in the September timeframe. Forge Rewrite As stated previously, I'm in the process of rewriting a simple gforge replacement. I just gave a quick overview of what is there and what is needed for launch. Hoping to beta that in about 2 weeks. Dev Team Meetup This was kind of the big topic we wanted to discuss. Basically, the dev team wants to finally meet face to face later this summer. We've set a date of the weekend of September 8th in Copenhagen, Denmark. We've chosen this location because 1) we have a team member there who has an apartment we can do some work in, and 2) because it's pretty central to several people on the team. Of course, for those of us in North America, it's pretty darn expensive and will probably require some fundraising, but we'll get there. Luckily, it's only 3 of us. Plans for what we're going to do while there haven't been fleshed out. I'm hoping for a decent social/work mix, but it's going to be kind of up in the air in order to keep everyone content. Though, it does seem like the 2.0 beta will hopefully be poking up it's head around that time, so there will probably be stuff to discuss/work on. Conclusion Another productive meeting. We took right around the allotted 2 hours and got a lot accomplished. We agreed that we wouldn't probably meet again until after 1.1 is released and it was time to start figuring out the 2.0 duties for the devs. The transscription (with some email addresses and urls removed to not promote spam) can be found here: http://cmsmadesimple.org/uploads/devmeeting-2006-06-06.txt

Infrastructure Changes

Posted May 19, 2007 by Ted Kulp

Hey all, Sorry if I haven't been around as much lately. As least with the forums, blog and working on 2.0. It's just been a hectic month. However, I do have some good news. We're in for a few infrastructure changes onver the next few weeks. Here's the quick rundown... I've purchased a new server. In fact, this blog has been running on that new server for about a week now. It has double the memory, way more than double the hard drive space and is MUCH faster. The existing server is really struggling with the increased traffic load we're received over the past few months, so this should help get rid of some of that down time. I'll be moving the main site, wiki and forums over tonight (sometime around 4 to 5 AM GMT -- May 20, 2007). The downtime should be minimal, and it's pretty much the slowest traffic time of our entire week, so I'm not TOO concerned about it affecting too many people. If I see a problem and have to abort, I will. In fact, I was going to do it last week, but mediawiki wasn't having any parts of it, so I gave up. The issues are resolved now, so it should be good to go. Gforge (dev.cmsmadesimple.org) will not be making the move, unfortunately. Gforge is great and all, but it's entirely too much system for what we do with it. The mailing lists are annoying, it's creating all kind of users and directories on the server, it's cron jobs are taxing the system, etc. Instead, I've rewritten a minimal gforge replacement in ruby on rails and figured out how to migrate the data. The rewrite isn't complete yet, but it's very close. I should have something working in another week or so, at which point I'll be asking people to help to beta test and work out the kinks. Then when it's time for it go live, we'll just do a final database migration and shut gforge off forever. :) After the first version goes live, I'll be looking for people to help add some new features, so stay tuned for that. After all this is done and the old server is off... the summer will be spent on 2.0. I'll have another announcement regarding that soon, but the dev team and I have to work out a few scheduling issues before I'll announce what it is. I'll make sure I post an update to this message after the migration is complete, for the curious... Thanks! Ted UPDATE -- The sites are moved. Everything seems to be working correctly. Let me know if something isn't.

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