PC Upgrade Thread!!!

[Rukario]

Remember everyone tonight, Sunday January 9, 2005 PC will be shut down at approx 23:00 (11:00PM) PST (that's west coast USA time) GMT -8 for an update to our vB.

During this time you'll recieve a message saying PC is down/closed for maintanence and to try later.. the update should take approx an hour..
After the update, any hacks/modifications we had, may or may not be availble to use, but we'll re-add them as soon as we can.

Staff and admins: DO NOT USE THE BOARD DURING THIS TIME PLEASE

Post any comments and concerns?

[Thomas-san]

Will the boards be updating to 3.0.4 or 3.0.5??? I didnt get the deal with them being released so close.

Also what times are those for central time?

[Kairi]

Aww, I want to spam up the board while it’s down. It could be our little admin playground! ^_^

Teasing. None I can think of…do you have the report hack ready incase it breaks, to reinstall?

[ravenstorture]

This shouldn't alter currents threads/post count etc. Correct?

[Eliana]

Ooh, that would be irritating if it would eh?

[Kairi]

It won’t have any effect on postcounts or any other database related items.

[Illyria]

Nah, it's an upgrade. Upgraders are designed to keep everything intact. The only things that may be affected are certain hacks, like Steve and Abby said.

But, you know, this isn't such an important deal that we need an announcement on it. There may be several more releases coming after this, are we going to make announcements for each one of those? Like you said, it only takes an hour. We can live without PC for an hour. o.O

[Koroku]

If Steve does it right, by doing the modificications by hand, nothing should be broken at all.

[Eliana]

Oh allright, just making sure ^^ thats good.

[Kelsey]

Weee, an upgrade, sounds exciting. =D I do like it when we get upgrades, it's nice that you all keep PC up to date, it just makes PC a better place to be. ^o^

~Kelsey

[Rukario]

Aww, I want to spam up the board while it’s down. It could be our little admin playground! ^_^

Teasing. None I can think of…do you have the report hack ready incase it breaks, to reinstall?
NO SPAM ^__^*
Nope i have NO hacks ready nor am i gonna worry about them just yet.. my fist priority is securing PC (and my server) the hacks and mods will come later - you admin/prea's can help with that if you want.

If Steve does it right, by doing the modificications by hand, nothing should be broken at all.
Not gonna happen.. I'll be doing the update late in the evening and won't have time nor the motivation to do a manual update, sorry.

This shouldn't alter currents threads/post count etc. Correct?
No data, short of the back-end files, will be affected. You're posts, post counts, profiles, etc will not change.

Will the boards be updating to 3.0.4 or 3.0.5??? I didnt get the deal with them being released so close.

Also what times are those for central time?
it'll be to 3.0.5, a critical security update from 3.0.4
Ummmm, about 21:00 (9:00PM) CST or around there. You'll all know when as the forum will display the maintinace message and not allow you to enter.

[mvtm]

Okay no prob Steve , on that hour i will be sleeping since tomorrow i start school , lol.

[Mr Cat Dog]

I can't help remembering when the database screwed up at SPP and everyone had to reregister and everything. It's funny looking back at it with hyancide, but it certainly wasn't funny then XD Hopefully that shouldn't happen here... I think o.o

To work out the time when PC'll come down, just add or subtract the number of hours from the GMT exact time of 7:00am. So... people in Western Europe such as France and Germany would be 8:00 and etc ^_^

[Shikon no Tama]

So, PC is getting an upgrade? Sounds cool. Will PC be changed in any way? Amd it's good that our post counts, profiles and all that data will remain the same. I guess PC will be a lot better later than it is now, right?

[Illyria]

EDIT: Never mind, just saw MCD's post. x.x

[Suz]

an upgrade shuld be fun! *thinks what PC will be like with an upgrade*
so, no one can post during that time, rite?

edit: ohh yes, what time will this be in CST? ^^'

[Illyria]

If you need to find out the exact time, it's about 10 hours and 43 minutes from now. ^^;

[Shikon no Tama]

I have no idea what the time will be in B.C. I go by EST. But I'm guessing it'll be after 7:00 pm. Besides, today I'm only allowed on until like 7:00 pm anyway.

[DarknessMonkey]

Hmmmm...
I Probably Won't Be On At That Time So It's Fine...
Anyways An Upgrade?
Cool!
Hope It Brings Cool Features!

[Electric Hero]

It's fine to me, I have the time at GMT-6, so 11:00 PM plus two hourse it will be at 1:00 AM to me, no problem with that, I will asleep when the upgrade happens, tomorrow I have school.

[Colette_The_Chosen]

Okay....then It's....Holy! It's like eight for me....*Cry*

[Rukario]

sorry u all who's timezone puts the upgrade into prime time :( but it has to be done and well i'm in pacific time in the US so thats what i have to go by.... don't worry it should only be an hour or so.. Just go visit PPN, VR, Zapchu, and DF while we're upgrading :)

[Bleach and Sunshine]

So this your future plans for PC.

[Colette_The_Chosen]

WAAAAA! *Blink Blink*
Wait, Me have a forum of my own to tend to.
*Edits Planner*

[Geometric-sama]

*giggles* Hmm, I'll be... at dinner at that time. ^^ Hopefully we'll be done by the time I finish activities tonight.

[Blaze]

It isn't long,

My friend stalis upgraded mine in about 30 minutes, with all hacks intact. Then again he is a pro at vBullitens.

Good to see you guys are finally upgrading, it isn't long before someone makes a worm for the rest of vB 3.x

[protoman]

what is being upgraded?(sorry if some one already ask this i too lazy! XP)

[Pokemon Master #1]

Hmm.....an upgrade huh, sounds cool to me.I'll be playing my Gamecube at that time so I don't really mind.

[Suz]

has it been upgraded yet X3
only, I was having truble geting on PC erlyer...

[protoman]

like 15 min. ago? i had problems too

[Illyria]

That was a database crash. o_O Check my post on page one to find out when it'll be upgraded. Or if you're too lazy, it's 7 hours and 5 minutes from when I typed this post.

[Shikon no Tama]

7 hours? Sounds ok to me. I'll be fast asleep at that time. XD
I'll just be dreaming, and dreaming. Well, everyone in my area doesn't have to worry about time unless they're priviledged and get to stay up as long as they want.
*Glares at some people*

[Thomas-san]

Ok, well what just happened...what that the update cause I could not get on for like an 1 and 1/2 hours.

[Brittany]

Hmm, I don't mind it, I'll probably be asleep during that time anyway xD

[Thomas-san]

Only 1 hour from the time I post this is when PC will be upgraded! I dont know anything about vBulliten, will there any major changes like layout?

[Geometric-sama]

One hour? You sure about that? I calculated about 4 hours from now -_-

[Shikon no Tama]

4 hours from now? 1? I have no idea. But, the sooner the upgrade happens to better. If it happens sooner, than that means people don't have to wait later on. Anyways, let's just all post something like *SUSPENSE* in our posts here to show we're counting down the time until the upgrade.

[Geometric-sama]

If we just go *suspense*, that's, uh, gonna be like spam. :P

[Thomas-san]

One hour? You sure about that? I calculated about 4 hours from now -_-Well, Steve told me that it would be around 9PM Central time and it is now 912PM....so...what is the hold up?

[Geometric-sama]

Steve said it would be around 11PM his time...

[ravenstorture]

Eleven pm Pacific time which is 12 Mountain, 1 in the morning central and 2 eastern. Not that hard.

[Ryoutarou]

Meh...least I still got a good while left XD

[Ashley]

Wow an upgrade to an already superb place!

[Thomas-san]

Yep...I am pretty sure there is only 10 or 11 minutes to go!

[Rukario]

OK well it's updated.. now to see what's broke.. (i haven't yet reverted any templates as we want to see if there are any issues first.. and well, don't fell like editing them all again right now)

So, if you see a bug or glitch, report it here.

[Geometric-sama]

*hasn't found anything broken so far* *looks at pretty powered by* <3333 3.0.5 :P

[Hiroshi Sotomura]

Meh, only the security of PC has been enforced in 3.04 and 3.05...

[Illyria]

Yay! Thanks to my sleeping pattern, I slept through it! xD Uh... broken things? It's not really anything big, but back on 3.0.3 I had auto-login enabled, and when I came on just now, I wasn't logged in. o.O

[STaLIS]

that's because the cookie changes to having a different vB version displayed in it.

Anyway, nice update, though there may be more to come very soon according to Dave from vB.com :(

[Rukario]

Yeah i'm noticing a cookie issue too.. hopefully it's only a temp problem..

[Thomas-san]

Question: Everything looks and works exactly the same. What exactly did the upgrade change?

[Hiroshi Sotomura]

It'll just ward off the cookies so you have to re-log in and it'll all come back.

[Koroku]

Question: Everything looks and works exactly the same. What exactly did the upgrade change?
Security fixes, so people can't hack in and stuff.

All the new features are in the admincp I believe.

[Carlito-san]

Would a admin mind to tell us what they are?

[Koroku]

It's nothing special that would have anything to do with the users.

The only change I've noticed is that the style area was revamped.

[Shikon no Tama]

So, PC's been already upgraded? That's a god thing. Now we're all safe knowing that no one can hack our accounts. And I think there'll no hacking anyone for a very long while.

[Koroku]

Accounts weren't in danger. It was just a vunerablility that could affect some of the files.

Database would be fine.

[Kipkip]

Someone reported a post in Webmaster's Disscusion and I never got it in my PM inbox, but I did get it in my email. Could that have been affected by the upgrade?

[Shikon no Tama]

I have no idea Kip-Kip. But I'm sure we'll find out what that upgrade has benifitted PC for. I haven't seen a change to it at all. Maybe the reporting thing has been affected as well Kip-Kip.

[bgt]

I haven't noticed any problems, updates are nice to have, I couldn't get some of the theme's pictures to load up but those might have already been problems, lol.

[Rukario]

This upgrade didn't add any new features.. it's mostly a bug-fix and security update.. but the fact of updating can effect our hacks.. i.e. the report hack.

I do beileve there was some cosmetic changes to the Admin/Mod Control Panel but no new funtion changes.

[Illyria]

http://pokecommunity.info/showpost.php?p=746961&postcount=1

I'm not sure if they disabled smilies, or if this was an upgrade result.

Oh, and here's a list of changes from the vBulletin website. Check their forum for a more detailed explanation on each of the bugs.

3.0.3 to 3.0.4

3118 - AdminCP Stats are misaligned
3126 - Little typo in includes/functions_databuild.php
3132 - Short php tags used in forum.php and upgradecore.php
3135 - Problem with adding multiple smilies when the full URL is used
3139 - forumpermissions.php: Displaying a single forum is broken
3123 - Rebuild Styles is in English
3235 - Referral Report
3150 - Jelsoft Enterprises Limited Link in Admin Panel
3166 - Wrong redirect when changing into pda mode
3176 - Wrong link in ACP View Rep Comments
3164 - Who's online problem
3158 - Copy thread issues
3179 - Who's online problem - 2
3127 - Indexing Inefficiency
3172 - Style Issue Upon Registration
3184 - Leave email field
3149 - Each time you Preview, you lose a little more of your message
3163 - Memberlist Search member then change sort order give wrong result
3188 - List Visitors in the Last 24 Hours show lastvisit day
3189 - E-mail support for .museum TLD
3182 - Parent E-Mail Bug
3198 - Uncached template: modifysignature
3209 - Moderators now shown in ACP/Forum Manager (Single mode)
3203 - Search Users from ACP bug
3215 - buildpostcache doesn't work properly
3219 - Invalid XHTML
3169 - Renaming using does not rename thread starter
3221 - Adding a Poll for admins / mods shouldn't expire
3193 - Date shown in navbar after event submission is wrong
3262 - View Reputation Comments
3249 - Announcements one day off
3268 - Can't view permissions through forum manager
3264 - Wrong links in modcp/banning.php
3276 - Images with a width of 1px cause database error
3283 - FAQ searching
3287 - Postcount Problem with Deleting Forum
3115 - running install.php, catching blank page
3303 - Partial "Rebuild Search Index" doesn't stop correctly
3312 - 'alt3' CSS Class
3314 - Image Error in language editing
3328 - Wrong text in admincp/statistics
3326 - Problems with Memberlist searching when Advanced Search is turned off
3348 - Problem with searching for a user in the Mod CP
3361 - faq.php unchecked do variable
3360 - Forum Links without permissions
3351 - Possibility to use every function in a template condition
3510 - Two deletions of the same thread will cause database error
3365 - "Edited by" shows for admin if user gave reason.
3382 - referrerid cookie in register.php
3383 - Registration problem with custom field
3392 - No sanitization of poststarttime
3388 - Existing Searches ignored - Search always rebuilt!
3393 - Error handling on save smilies
3137 - Error with changing an users avatar via admin cp
3427 - Expired password reset results in error with PHP5
3485 - Add Camino support to WYSIWYG
3536 - Spelling error in ranks_modify_text
3488 - Unable to resend email if can view forums is set to no
3138 - More untranslated text
3195 - custom field on user options page
3357 - Problem with "empty" unread_x_nav phrase
3526 - Hard-coded phrase
3523 - calendar url parsing
3522 - variable typo
3519 - "Undefined" randomly appearing in posts
3512 - external.php fails to check if a password is required for a forum
3507 - admincp/user.php -> pruneusers
3477 - Subforum (xx Viewing) problem
3483 - User Permission Bug
3447 - Apache 2 version isn't displayed
3505 - Installer does not guess at port for forum/home page URL
3334 - $vbphrase[to_delete_a_folder] seems not to be filled
3120 - Helptext for profile fields
3140 - $vbphrase[terrible] is in the wrong category
3161 - $vbphrase[alignment] does not display in vBulletin options
3175 - Missing form action attribute
3159 - Phrase closed_thread missing in showthread
3128 - Quote on a post shown as unread
3200 - Some bug in PM
3250 - Missing help info for FAQ manager varname
3252 - Sentence in the MSN popup
3313 - Typo in a phrase
3318 - problems with phpinclude_start template
3297 - Edit Post Access Keys
3322 - Phrase typo
3223 - Password History does not do anything
3288 - Super Trivial -- Help File...
3298 - When drawing poll result bars, language direction not taken into account
3325 - Default Time Zone Offset has no effect
3404 - Typo in functions_image.php
3391 - Different Thread Ratings shown in showthread.php & forumdisplay.php
3201 - Failure to edit avatars within AdminCP
3338 - Activation error
3374 - Combination Of Characters Not Allowing Login
3411 - Javascript error in css.php
3447 - Apache 2 version isn't displayed
3455 - Physical delete a thread does not remove records for "soft deleted posts" inside
3202 - Activation Letter and spam
3213 - Sort by Last Visit affected by Invisible Mode
3237 - Html entity value of space isn't detected
3332 - Error when renaming a template when the new name already exists
3180 - bbcode manager sql error
3352 - Poll Maximum Options
3353 - email vbcode not in vbcode list
3286 - Opera Search Display Error
3225 - Show Default Post Icon description incorrect
3379 - SQL Injection in Authorize.net callback code
3337 - Add user to your *nothing* list
3116 - translating the sort order submit button
3240 - Members list not sorting by reputation
3405 - Extra htmlspecialchars() on search string display for phrase search
3.0.4 to 3.0.5
3575 - Javascript error into head of ACP
3573 - Can't use some bbcodes
3574 - Local date is not shown correctly
3580 - New User Email doesn't contain proper strings for Custom Checkbox and Multiple Selects
3578 - Can't send PMs to some users when using a multibyte language
3582 - Calendar.php (3.0.4) Error in the code
3591 - Type in $vbphrase[options_options_minreputationpost_text]
3572 - search thread results return other threads
3593 - Child Style and '--'
3569 - Referrer Check fails when not using port 80
3598 - Template Manager - Javascript Error in FireFox
Additional PHP5 compatibility changes
Potential security issue
Changes so enabling NOSHUTDOWNFUNC does not cause conflicts with certain systems.
New error handler designed to prevent accidental path disclosure

[Rukario]

Testing...

:bandit: :D :P :( :dead: :nervous: :surprised ;) :chinese: :rambo: :\ :confused: :cross-eye :classic: :sleeping: :laugh: :disappoin :) :'( :knockedou :cheeky: :pirate: :tired: :embarrass :badsmile: :paranoid: :cool: :shocked: :dragonite :meow: :snea: :1: :16: :donut: :may: :sean: :15: :chu: :lg: :psy copy: :14: :20: :bone: :latias: :pokeball: :13: :2: :9: :king: :os: :12: :19: :8: :kec: :mew2: :11: :18: :7: :fr: :mew: :top: :10: :17: :5:

[Imakuni?]

So, PC's been already upgraded? That's a god thing. Now we're all safe knowing that no one can hack our accounts. And I think there'll no hacking anyone for a very long while.
Uh... It really wouldnt be "hacking". Breaking into an account would be called "Cracking". And it really would only matter if someone broke into an admin or super moderators account :classic: :classic: :classic: