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December 9, 2017Craig 1 Comment

WordPress 4.9.1

After a much longer than expected break due to moving and the resulting lack of Internet, plus WordPress releasing a package with a non-free file, the Debian package for WordPress 4.9.1 has been uploaded!

WordPress 4.9 has a number of improvements, especially around the customiser components so that looked pretty slick. The editor for the customiser now has a series of linters what will warn if you write something bad, which is a very good thing! Unfortunately the Javascript linter is jshint which uses a non-free license which that team is attempting to fix. I have also reported the problem to WordPress upstream to have a look at.

While this was all going on, there were 4 security issues found in WordPress which resulted in the 4.9.1 release.

Finally I got the time to look into the jshint problem and Internet to actually download the upstream files and upload the Debian packages. So version 4.9.1-1 of the packages have now been uploaded and should be in the mirrors soon. I’ll start looking at the 4.9.1 patches to see what is relevant for Stretch and Jessie.

February 3, 2014Craig 4 Comments

jffnms 0.9.4

JFFNMS version 0.9.4 was released today, this version fixes some bugs that have recently appeared in previous versions.

The triggers rules editor had a problem where some of the rules clicked off the triggers would not appear or could not be edited correctly.

Most of the Admin screens have the ability to sort the rows. This, unfortunately, didn’t sort but the functionality has been restored.

Most users are probably unaware of this, but the database schema is first created for MySQL and is then converted for PostgreSQL. The conversi0n process is far from ideal and hasn’t worked until this release. More testing is required for PostgreSQL support but it should be a lot better.

May 4, 2011Craig

JFFNMS – 3rd RC lucky?

I’ve just uploaded to sourceforge the third and hopefully last RC for JFFNMS network management system version 0.9.0 The reason for the delay was easter as well as I wanted to test the engines for a long while to make sure I was not getting any orphan children or items. Previous versions had processes that never died or if they died the parent didn’t realise and didn’t handle the item, permanently making the item “out for work”.

PHP5 has much better job and process handling and the new version takes advantage of this handling. It’s run well on my on test setup for a week or two. You can find the RC code or just the older releases at https://sourceforge.net/projects/jffnms/files/