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Old 16th May 2017, 1:45 pm   #1
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Default Forum software update, 8pm this evening

I will be updating the forum software to vBulletin version 3.8.11 at around 8pm this evening. It is likely to take about 10 minutes (during which time the forum will be closed) unless there are any issues. I will post here again a few minutes before the update starts.

Main change in v3.8.11 is support for PHP 5.6, 7.0 and 7.1, so it should be able to run on supported PHP versions for some time (7.1 is supported until December 2019) even if there are no further updates to the vBulletin v3.8.x series. There are no functional changes in this update so everything should continue to work as before.
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Old 16th May 2017, 2:49 pm   #2
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Good to know. Thanks. Will this update change the look of the website?

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Old 16th May 2017, 3:18 pm   #3
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There are no functional changes in this update so everything should continue to work as before.

I would take it that the look will remain the same.
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Old 16th May 2017, 3:21 pm   #4
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No, it's only an update from v3.8.10 to v3.8.11, I don't expect any appearance or functional changes. It's primarily a PHP compatibility and bug-fix update.
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Old 16th May 2017, 8:04 pm   #5
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Default Re: Forum software update, 8pm this evening

Slight delay - this will now start at 8:10pm.
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Old 16th May 2017, 8:19 pm   #6
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Default Re: Forum software update, 8pm this evening

Now complete. Hopefully everything will work as before but if you notice any problems that didn't exist before please post here.

For those interested in the techie aspects, the hosting account is now set to PHP 7.0 (was previously set to PHP 5.5).
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Old 16th May 2017, 9:18 pm   #7
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*Groan* That reminds me. I have a mountain of mission-critical custom scripts built using the obsolete mysql_* functions that are going to need migrating to PDO (I tried mysqli_* -- that was a total dog's breakfast. PDO works very much like DBI in Perl, which I was already used to) sooner rather than later.

But that's enough Work Talk! I haven't noticed any problems so far, anyway.
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*Groan* That reminds me. I have a mountain of mission-critical custom scripts built using the obsolete mysql_* functions that are going to need migrating to PDO (I tried mysqli_* -- that was a total dog's breakfast. PDO works very much like DBI in Perl, which I was already used to) sooner rather than later.
I have used this on one legacy site to get it working on PHP 7.0 hosting; it's a wrapper that recreates the mysql_* functions using mysqli_* functions. https://github.com/OOPS-ORG-PHP/mysql-extension-wrapper

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But that's enough Work Talk! I haven't noticed any problems so far, anyway.
Agreed. I'm pleased no issues have been reported so far.
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Old 17th May 2017, 10:25 pm   #9
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As no problems have been reported after 24 hours I'll close this now. If you find any problems now, please just create a new thread in this section, unless there is already an existing open thread about it.
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